Mirjam Skal awarded the German Documentary Film Music Prize 2025
Swiss composer Mirjam Skal receives the German Documentary Film Music Award 2025 for her music for the film "Vracht" .
In the documentary "Vracht", the young sailor Rudmer works on a container ship and dreams of becoming a captain himself one day. According to the jury, the interplay between the visual and acoustic levels in the film is perfect. It is an immersive film for the eyes and ears, in which the individual artistic voices of direction, camera, editing and music have become a harmony.
Mirjam Skal, born in 1996, is a freelance media composer from Zurich. She studied composition for film, theater and media at the Zurich University of the Arts and has composed numerous soundtracks for short films, games, commercials and documentaries, for radio and television. In 2021 she was part of the Berlinale Talents. She has been honored with the Zollinger Art Prize, the Rolf-Hans Müller Prize for Best Film Music at the Televisionale Baden-Baden and other awards.
Since 2019, the German Documentary Film Music Prize has been awarded as part of DOK.fest Munich, the largest documentary film festival in Germany. It is sponsored by Versicherungskammer Kultur, is endowed with 5000 euros and is supported by the German Composers' Association.
