The film adaptation of the novel "Impatience of the Heart" by Lauro Cress has won the main prize at the Neisse Film Festival in the border triangle of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. The German director's film, based on Stefan Zweig's work of the same name, was awarded the Neisse Fish sculpture and 10,000 in prize money on Saturday evening in Zgorzelec. The jury had to choose between nine feature films in the competition - three each from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
The award for the best acting performance went to Giulio Brizzi for his performance in "Impatience of the Heart". Aneta Grňáková was awarded the prize for best production design for her work on the Czech-Slovak feature film "Murder" by Adam Martinec. Maria Zbąska received the Neisse Fish for best screenplay for the Polish feature film "To nie mój film" ("This is not my film"), which she also directed.
