FRAGILE by Sikander Goldau nominated for Honorary Foreign Film Student Oscar

Academy AwardAMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) has selected five films from 39 entries coming from 23 countries. The winner of the Honorary Foreign Film Student Oscar Academy Award automatically qualifies for participation in the OSCAR competition for the best short film. The short fiction film FRAGILE by Sikander Goldau – student at the Academy of Television & Film Munich (HFF/M) - was produced by Scarmour Film & Creative Pictures (Producers: Hamid Baroua, Michael Polle and Sikander
Goldau) and tells the story of a woman who has died but is given the chance to go back for just one day to the people she loves.

FRAGILE (20 min.) has been invited to several international festivals and received the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the AFI FEST 2003 in Los Angeles and the Audience Award for Best Short Film (3rd Place) at the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain.

Four German student films were already awarded the “Film Student OSCAR“
recently: 2000: QUIERO SER by Florian Gallenberger (HFF Munich) 1999: SMALL CHANGE (KLEINGELD) by Marc-Andreas Borchert (HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg) 1998: ROCHADE by Thorsten Schmidt (Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg) 1997: AN ORDINARY MISSION (EIN EINFACHER AUFTRAG) by Raymond Boy (Academy of Media Arts Cologne). Last year, Florian Baxmeyer (Hamburger Filmwerkstatt for Film Studies at the University of Hamburg) got shortlisted with his film THE RED JACKET.

The official ceremony for the “Film Student OSCAR“ takes place on 13 June 2004 in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.