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The Swiss film “Electric Fields” written and directed by Lisa Gertsch won the 45th Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken on Saturday evening. A black-and-white film, it received three awards, namely the main prize of €36,000 for the best feature film, the Fritz Raff Screenplay Award and the Film Critics’ Award. The festival is the most important for young German-language filmmakers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Eighteen awards worth €118,500 ($128,600) were presented, including 14 jury prizes and four audience prizes. A total of 58 films entered the competition in the four cat…

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