BODY OF GLASS wins at San Sebastián Film Fes­ti­val

On 26 Sep­tem­ber, the clos­ing gala of the pres­ti­gious fes­ti­val took place in north­ern Spain, and the grad­u­a­tion film BODY OF GLASS (Dir./Writer: Naë­mi Ada, DoP: Sel­ma von Pohlheim Gravesen, Edi­tor: Ele­na Wei­he) was hon­oured with the Kutx­a­bank-New Direc­tors Award, which comes with prize mon­ey of EUR 50,000.

About the film: At its cen­tre is a young dancer try­ing to break free from a manip­u­la­tive rela­tion­ship. When she holds her part­ner cap­tive, the exist­ing pow­er dynam­ic shifts, open­ing up the pos­si­bil­i­ty of regain­ing con­trol over her own life. Along­side the dynam­ics of emo­tion­al depen­den­cy, the film explores the search for self-deter­mi­na­tion and agency.

The film is a co-pro­duc­tion with Soil­films and Sol­dats Fea­tures and was made as part of the Leucht­stoff ini­tia­tive by rbb and Medi­en­board Berlin-Bran­den­burg.

We con­grat­u­late the entire team around Naë­mi Ada on this won­der­ful award and look for­ward to the fur­ther fes­ti­val jour­ney of BODY OF GLASS.