Good news for CAHIER AFRICAIN! Yesterday, Monika Grütters, German Minister of State for Culture, and Iris Berben, head of German Film Academy, announced the final nominations for the German Film Awards 2017 (LOLA Awards). CAHIER AFRICAIN has been nominated for the award in the category of "BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM", which goes along with a prize money of 100.000 € for a future film project. Congratulations to director Heidi Specogna, Johann Feindt (camera), Kaya Inan (editing) as well as our great team. Within the upcoming six weeks the comittee of the German Film Academy will decide in a secret vote whether Heidi Specogna's latest documentary will receive a German Film Award eventually. The award ceremony will will take place on 28 April in Berlin.
CAHIER AFRICAIN is a co-production of Filmpunkt with Swiss PS Film (Peter Spoerri) as well as ZDF/3Sat (commissioning editors: Katya Mader, Udo Bremer). Among others, supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.
This way to the official page of the LOLA.