Hofer film days: "the gold price" for movie on phone-youth

For her debut film about the "Generation Smartphone" is given to the author, filmmaker Luzie Loose for the first time at the Hof film festival awarded "gold prize".

The 1989 born and raised in Berlin, Loose, know the mental Stress of the "mobile youth" and tell of new forms of individual debt, according to the statement made by Director Edgar Reitz ("Heimat"). The 85-Year-old has determined this year's award winner, as the organizers of the film said days on Saturday.

The "Hofer price of gold" of the Friedrich-Baur-Foundation, following the "Heinz Badewitz-price" and is for the best Director for a first full-length feature film awarded. The Bavarian Academy of Trbet the Beautiful arts awards him in remembrance of the 2016, the deceased former Director of the festival. The award consists of a gold ingot worth around 35,000 euros and artistic advice for the winner.

In Loose Film "Swim" go there to young people and their clashes with overwhelmed parents and teachers, as well as the "desperate search for himself", it said. "Malicious competition, fighting and bullying, will determine the lives of young people in Internet forums and social media. Here is a virtual battlefield, on which the phone is transformed into a dangerous weapon," said Reitz.