CHRIEG awarded at the 36th Max Ophüls Festival

January 27, 2015

Another double good news for the Swiss writer/director Simon Jaquemet’s debut feature. CHRIEG won Best Film and Best Emerging Actor (Benjamin Lutzke) at the 36th Max Ophüls Festival (19-25 January), a major event intended to discover tomorrow’s freshest talents from within the world of German-language cinema.

The film –  developed at Script&Pitch 2011 and FrameWork 2012 – is produced by Christian Davi for Hugofilms (Switzerland) and co-produced by SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (Switzerland); sales are handled by Picture Tree International.