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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. In a “tragic-comic, yearning atmosphere”, according to the feature film jury, the film tells a “surprising and magically playful story of love and transience, of longing and loneliness, of the emergence and passing of connections, of transcendence, nature and death.” The jury of…

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