Peter Liechti's Swiss documentary The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy was the winner of the Prix ARTE for best European documentary, the European Film Academy (EFA) has announced.
Inspired by Shimada Masahiko's novella How I Became a Mummy, itself inspired by true events, The Sound of Insects tells the story of a forest hunter who discovers the mummified body of a man — the remains of someone who starved himself to death while recording the process along the way.
The jury, composed of Franco-Georgian documentary filmmaker Nino Kirtadzé, Austrian producer Franz Grabner, and Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky, decided to give the award to The Sound of Insects "for its skillful exploration of minimalistic means to create an extraordinary visual story between life and death."
Among the competing documentaries were veteran Agnès Varda's The Beaches of Agnes, Yoav Shamir's Defamation, and Anders Østergaard's Burma VJ. All three are potential Oscar 2010 contenders.
Peter Liechti will be given his Prix ARTE at the 2009 European Film Awards ceremony on Saturday, 12 December, in Bochum, Germany.
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