INTERFILM Award

The 30th INTERFILM Jury at the 35th Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize awards its prize to

SEME – SCHLAGE NICHT, UM ZU GEWINNEN.
GEWINNE, DANN SCHLAGE (Don't hit to win. Win, then hit)
by Il Kang, Germany 2013

Motivation:
A young German Korean accepts responsibility for himself and for his life. Only when he learns to appreciate Kendo in a new way he and his father succeed in approaching one another. Sensitively the film shows how they come closer and gain each other’s respect. It convinces by a careful composition of its aesthetic means. To leave the Korean passages without subtitles adds to the strong points of the film: The viewers experience otherness but are not excluded from understanding.

Members of the Jury:
Hermann Kocher, Switzerland
Irina Grassmann, Germany
Wolf-Dieter Scheid, Germany