A multinational production detailing the journey oftwo Palestinian cousins fleeing their homeland for Germany receivedthe coproduction award at the Munich Film Festival on Saturday.
Danish-Palestinian director Mahi Fleifel's "To a Land Unknown" takeshis audience into a world in which the protagonists cannot avoiddoing the wrong thing, the jury said in making the ?100,000($108,000) CineCoPro Award.
The story tells of two stranded young men forced to cross everyborder in order to achieve their dream of a secure life in Europe -without papers and with no money.
France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Palestine, Qatar, SaudiArabia and the United Kingdom were all involved in the production.
A number of other prizes were awarded on Saturday, the festival'spenultimate day, with Best International Film going to aSlovakian-Hungarian production "An Explanation for Everything" inwhich a young man fails his finals after falling in love, possibly onaccount of his politics.
The CineMasters Award is worth ?50,000.
Among the German contributions, the German-Slovakian production"Führer und Verführer" by Joachim A Lang with Robert Stadlober, FritzKarl and Franziska Weisz won the audience prize.
It centres on Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who committedsuicide in 1945.
"Samia" by German director Yasemin Samdereli, which tells of a femaleSomali sprinter dreaming of participating in the Olympic Games, was awinner in the international section.
Other winners included "Simón de la Montaña" by Argentinian directorFederico Luis; "Lars er LOL" by Eirik Sæter Stordahl from Norway;"Viet and Nam," by Vietnamese director Minh Quy Truong; "Sad Jokes"by Fabian Stumm of Germany and "Petra Kelly - Act now!" by Germandirector Doris Metz. — dpa
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