For the second time Pink Apple will award the Pink Apple Festival Award for merits in gay and lesbian filmmaking. This year the Canadian-Swiss Léa Pool will receive the prize. Since the Eighties, images of women and love between women have been the central topics of the Geneva born filmmaker, who made a name internationally with insightful films such as «Anne Trister» or «Lost and Delirious». With «Emporte-moi» she won numerous awards, among others the Swiss Film Prize, and for «Maman est chez le coiffeur» the Audience Award at the Solothurn Film Days. The Filmpodium Cinema honours the director with a retrospective from 1 April to 15 May, comprising 15 films, one of which is her latest film «La passion d’Augustine», and her documentary «Pink Ribbons, Inc.». Léa Pool chose «Mädchen in Uniform» («Girls in Uniform», 1958) as a Carte Blanche film. (Foto: © Monic Richard)