The jury
Bettina Hirsch (Germany), Stojan Sinadinov (North Macedonia), Pierre-Yves Roger (France)
Awarded films
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The Girl with the Needle by
Magnus von Horn
(Denmark, Sweden, Poland, 2024, 115 min)
Reports
Motivation for the prize: “The Girl with the Needle” tells the story of a working-class woman who tries to survive in a pitiless post-World War I Copenhagen. Magnus von Horn depicts in a very aesthetic black-and-white the darkness of a society where women were not allowed to make decisions about their bodies. The film provokes revealing questions about our humanity even nowadays”.