Prize of the Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia (EUR 5,000)

Parlez-moi d'amour

director: Alexia Bonta

Belgium 2008

Statment:

A hospital - two old women at the end of their lives. When faced with such circumstances, we usually associate them with decay and death. In Parlez moi d'amour, Belgian filmmaker Alexia Bonta shows us that this attitude may be careless, that there is a lot of experience to collect here, a knowledge relevant to all of us.

Using a formally reduced documentary approach, the director manages to make two people talk, to make them communicate their experience of life, but also their disappointments, their stubbornness and their sense of humour to the succeeding generation.

For this conversation about love and intimacy, supposedly at the wrong time in the wrong place, the jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia awards its prize to Alexia Bonta and her film Parlez moi d'amour.

The Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia 2008:

Christiane Heuwinkel (Bielefeld), Michael Girke (Herford), Klaus Gronenborn (Köln), Rainer Komers (Mülheim/Ruhr), Ruth Schiffer (Düsseldorf)