Critics honour Andrzej Wajda
This year’s EFA CRITICS’ AWARD - Prix FIPRESCI goes to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda for TATARAK (Sweet Rush). The award is presented annually by the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, as part of the European Film Awards.

Based on a short story by Sándor Márai, TATARAK chronicles the love affair between a neglected doctor’s wife (Krystyna Janda) whose two sons died in World War II and a man half her age (Pawel Szajda).

As FIPRESCI’s General Secretary Klaus Eder explained, “For us critics it is without doubt a big pleasure to honour Wajda, who wrote European film history already with his first films (GENERATION, KANAL, ASHES AND DIAMONDS) and who has influenced generations of filmmakers. We are therefore pleased and honoured to show him all our respect as critics. Our award also honours his latest film TATARAK. It’s not at all what you would call a later work - it is, on the contrary, the film of a young spirit, with which Wajda in a risky and courageous way undertakes to open new and very personal perspectives for the European authors’ cinema of today.”

Andrzej Wajda will be among the guests at the 22nd European Film Awards Ceremony on 12 December in Bochum to accept the award on stage.