4 wins & 5 nominations
- 2014 Nominee Golden Horseman
- Best Animated Film - National Competition
- 2014 Winner Prize of the German CompetitionThe re-enactment of a specific East German post-1989 experience. Its horror and cruelties are performed with fragments of an exploded doll's house. In simple kinetics set in motion by nylon strings, objects and parts of dolls become actors in a scenario of suffering and sexual abuse. In Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen, the artist and director Susann Maria Hempel constructs a drastic tableau of Thuringian case studies, moving with the sureness of a sleepwalker between various object levels, idiomatic speech, writing and singing. The sexual charge lies not only in the accusations of traumatisation suffered in the past, it also emerges in a strong fascination with transgression. Horror and cuteness are inextricably linked.
- 2014 Winner Jury Award (German Competition)The film with the long title "Seven Times a Day We Complain About Our Fate and at Night We Get up to Avoid Our Dreams" by Susann Maria Hempel is our winner of this year's German Competition. Based on an interview with an individual who describes being abused, the film interweaves sound and image in an virtuosic and increasingly unsettling way. Using speech, song and animation, the film builds up a little cabinet of horrors in which memory is set loose.
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