European Film Awards 2009: THE SOUND OF INSECTS Chosen Best Documentary
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 [...]
by Andre Soares | October 12, 2009
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