Fatherland claims Golden Frog, Wild Horse Nine wins Audience Award

The film Fatherland won the Golden Frog at the 34th Camerimage festival in Toruń, Poland, which has renamed the event Toruń-Camerimage. Director of photography Łukasz Żal received the top prize, while Paweł Pawlikowski's feature, Poland's Oscar entry, follows Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) on a road-trip during the Cold War. The Audience Award was given to Wild Horse Nine by Martin McDonagh, shot by Ben Davis and starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, with strong Oscar ambitions. Woman Unknown received the Silver Frog (Jasper J. Spanning) and Minotaur the Bronze Frog (Mikhail Krichman). According to The Hollywood Reporter, these awards highlight the growing importance of cinematography.