Lynne Ramsay to receive GRAND IFFMH AWARD

With the GRAND IFFMH AWARD, we honor contemporary filmmakers for their own, style-defining vision of cinema. After Guillaume Nicloux (2021), Alice Winocour (2022) and Nicolas Winding Refn (2023), this year Lynne Ramsay will receive the award, which is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Festival Director Dr. Sascha Keilholz: “Lynne Ramsay represents resistance against the class system. She gives a face to the underrepresented and transports them from the social margins to the screen. She immerses herself in exceptional psychological situations and brings the unimaginable to the surface. What we see in her films, the present, is always simultaneously an echo of a traumatic past and a vague suggestion of future events. An almost irresolvable ambivalence runs through all her films. They fill us with unease and yet - or precisely because of this - lead us into temptation.”

The award ceremony will take place on November 9 at Stadthaus N1 in Mannheim. The film 'A Beautiful Day' (2017) will be shown afterwards. In addition, 'Ratcatcher' (1999) and 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' (2011) will be shown again at the 73rd IFFMH. Lynne Ramsay will provide information about her work at a master class, a discussion open to all interested parties, on November 10 in the Festival Lounge at Karlstorbahnhof.