Postcard To Daddy by Michael Stock - 24. Teddy Awards 60th Berlinale 2010

"Winner of the "Siegessäulen Readers Award", 60th Berlinale 2010"
The third documentary finalist, Michael Stock's Postcard to Daddy won the Siegessaeule readers award. The festival statement said, "Of all the films which the jury has seen this year Postcard to Daddy was by far the most moving. The members of the jury were so touched by Michael Stocks haunting documentary about his sexual abuse and the consequences for his life and that of his family that they still sat in silence in their seats minutes after the credits rolled. Through unsparing frankness that never became exhibitonist the filmmaker grants an intimate view of his suffering during and after the abuse. His cinematic self-discovery not only integrates his own story as a victim, but his entire family and even the perpetrator, and thus shows more clearly that sexual abuse is a universal issue. Stock does not mince what happened. No metaphors are used, the supposedly unspeakable is spoken out. The jury felt that Postcard to Daddy is a sad yet always hopeful film finally breaking the silence and the taboos which shows a way out of victimhood into a new life."

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Brave and moving film!