The INTERFILM Jury with the members Eva Furrer-Haller (Switzerland), Gudrun Hohenberger (Austria), Joerg Metzinger (Germany, President), and Reinhard Middel (Germany), has chosen as winner of the INTERFILM Award, carrying a prize money of 2000.- € donated by “Projekt Johanneskirche” (www.j-kirche.de), to the film from the official competition for long fiction films

Suicide Club
by Olaf Saumer, Germany 2010

Motivation:
Without knowing each other before, five people agree on to commit suicide on the roof of an apartment building. But they don’t succeed. Olaf Saumer in contrast succeeds in his low budget film to create dramatical and emotional moments in facing the big issue of life and death. Being serious enough the film also involves lightness and humour.
Convincing especially in his absurd and comical passages, the film surprises by unexpected turns. The five on the roof come to know each other better during the span of a day – and therefore do not step forward into the deep but back to life.