Czech documentary wins prize at Berlin Film Festival

The Czech documentary film Nesvatbov by Erika Hníková has been awarded a prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The documentary, written and directed by Hníková, was selected for the prize in the Forum section of the competition awarded by readers of the Der Taggesspiegel newspaper. The prize comes with a 3000 euro cheque. The film recounts how a mayor of a mid-sized village in Eastern Slovakia, a former army general, tries to encourage unmarried couples to marry and have children to stop to keep it alive.