Festivals & Prizes
Filmschau Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Film Award - Best Feature Film
São Paulo International FilmfestivalBest Main Actor - EDIN HASANOVIC
Film Festival Cottbus
Best Youth Film
Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen
AUDIENCE AWARD
Filmfest Emden
NDR YOUNG DIRECTOR'S AWARD
DGB TRADE UNION AWARD
BEST DIRECTOR
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