Beyond the Snowstorm wins First Steps Award!

BEYOND THE SNOWSTORM by Levin PEter has won the FIRST STEPS Award in the Documentary category tonight!

The Jury Statement loosely translates as follows:

“The discovery of a photo album from the war year 1943 leads the director to attempt a dialogue with the original photographer – his own grandfather – who quietly looks out through the window. Occasional hushed cries escape him. For a while we don‘t know if he will answer his grandson‘s questions at all. “Beyond the Snowstorm” patiently tells the story of the painful recollections of a former Wehrmacht soldier, and lets us accompany the director to the place of frozens moments: Mariupol in the Ukraine. A disturbing film about the difficult dealings with our “brown past”, about the attempt to unveil a long hidden secret, about concealment and guilt, seventy years after the end of the war.”