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Festivals & Prizes
Filmschau Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg Film Award - Best Feature Film


São Paulo International Filmfestival

Best Main Actor - EDIN HASANOVIC


Film Festival Cottbus
Best Youth Film

Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen
AUDIENCE AWARD

Filmfest Emden

BERNHARD WICKI AWARD
NDR YOUNG DIRECTOR'S AWARD
DGB TRADE UNION AWARD


WINNER: Studio Hamburg Next Generation Award 2012

BEST DIRECTOR


Biberach Film Festvial 2012

Student Biber Award


PLUS CAMERIMAGE Polen

Black Nights Film Festival Talinn

Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden

Filmfest Frauenwelten Tübingen

Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden

Exposed Film Festival Cologne

SCHLINGEL - Int. Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences, Chemnitz

27. Film Festival Osnabrück

8. Zürich Film Festival

36. World Film Festival Montreal

8. Festival des dt. Films Ludwigshafen

33. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis


What the press says

"Director Lars-Gunnar Lotz's debut film delivers powerful performances in a moving

story of a thug's attempted rehabilitation." ... "A potent parable of guilt and rehabilitation that remains narratively compact while finding moral complexity everywhere it looks,

SHIFTING THE BLAME manages to bolster our belief in the capacity for change without resorting to feel-good storylines."

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER


"With almost shakespearean force and a differenciated view, Lars-Gunnar Lotz confronts

a young offender in SHIFTING THE BLAME (orig. title: SCHULD SIND IMMER DIE ANDEREN), who serves his sentence in an open prison, with his violent crimes. The complexity of guilt and forgiveness is dealt with meticulously and at the same time the stereotype laden profession of the social worker is rehabilitated."

DIE ZEIT


Festivals 2013

Göteborg Int. Film Festival, Competition

25.01. - 04.02.13


Theatrical Release 28 February 2013

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