33rd Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize
Saarbruecken, 16.-22. January 2012

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INTERFILM Award

The INTERFILM Jury at the 33rd Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize has chosen as winner of the INTERFILM Award

Dr. Ketel
directed by Linus de Paoli, Germany 2011

The award carries a prize money of 1500.- €, donated by a circle of donors of the Evangelical parish Saarbruecken-Schafbruecke and the Film Cultural Centre of the EKD (Evangelical Church in Germany) in the GEP.

Motivation of the Jury:
A former nurse roaming about the city at night provides medical help for underprivileged people without being a doctor. Pursuing his passion he even doesn’t recoil from burglary and stealing of medication but heals and fosters at places where neither hospitals nor physicians ever arrive at.
The Interfilm Jury recognises this film as an unconventional and inspiring example to address the issue of health and healing, good and bad, just and injust, without offering onedimensional solutions.
DR. KETEL is an extraordinary film which, by mixing various styles with authority, draws a realistic as well as imaginary picture of society.

The members of the jury: Dr. Friedrich Brandi-Hinrichs (Germany), Christine Ris (Switzerland), Wolf-Dieter Scheid (Germany) and Peter F. Stucki (Switzerland)