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Ecumenical Award

The Ecumenical Jury awards its Prize, endowed with € 2000 by the VCH-Hotels Germany GmbH (Verband Christlicher Hoteliers e.V. – www.vch.de), including the Hotel MICHAELIS in Leipzig, to the film

WORK HARD – PLAY HARD
by Carmen Losmann, Germany 2011

Motivation:
With a sober camera the film shows a mirror-image of today’s working world in which man degrades into a pure resource, in a denaturized space. Taking manager training courses and assessment centres as examples, we can see on which cleverly devised methods executives and organization consultants are falling back to optimize the achievement potential of their workforce. In this process, man as a unique and feeling individual is left behind. Carmen Losmann has succeeded in making an impressive film as far as both its content and artistic value are concerned. It confronts us with the uncomfortable question, how we are going to deal with such a world and how we want to continue living in it.

Members of the Ecumenical Jury 2011:

Vesna Andonovic, Mamer (Luxembourg)
Thomas Bohne, Leipzig (Germany) - President
Margrit Frölich, Frankfurt a/M (Germany)
Arne Kristophersen, Brondby (Denmark)