Fieber wins Diagonale award

Luxembourg set designer Christina Schaffer has just been awarded the Best Set Design prize at the Diagonale, the Austrian film festival, for her work on the feature film "Fieber" directed by Elfi Mikesch and co-produced by Amour Fou Luxembourg.

The jury, made up of Swiss film critic Florian Keller, Austrian producer Dieter Pochlatko and German ZDF editor Claudia Tronnier, commented on its decision as follows: "With the DIAGONALE Award for Best Set Design for a feature-length fiction film, we are honouring an artist for the outstanding performance she brings to her work. In a film that recreates, in a very touching way, an imaginary geography of memory, the set designer succeeds in mixing memories and reality in a poetic way, on several levels. The skilful blend of photographs, fabric textures, wallpapers and oriental designs creates an expressive atmosphere.

The prize is €3,000.

www.amourfoufilm.com/film/fieber

Photo credits: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu (AMOUR FOU), Christina Schaffer (the winner), Elfi Mikesch (director), Barbara Pichler (DIAGONALE director), Bady Minck (AMOUR FOU). AMOUR FOU / Michael Krobath