With a grant from Cinéfondation , Borgman spend five months in Paris writing his début feature film project , '' The Weight of Elephants '' ( 2013 ) . An adaption of Australian author Sonya Hartnett 's book '' Of a Boy '' , the film is a coming of age drama about 14-year-old Jess , a local paper boy , whose life is flipped upside down when a horrific murder happens in the street where he delivers newspapers . The Zentropa-produced film was screened at Riga International Film Festival , Beijing International Film Festival , Saint-Quentin Ciné-Jeune Film Festival , Paris Cine Junior , Göteborg International Film Festival , and won the Youth Jury Award for Best Picture at the 2013 Vlissingen , Film by the Sea Festival , and the Oecumenical Prize at the 2013 Kiev Molodist International Film Festival . It was selected for the Forum at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival
63rd Berlin International Film Festival
63rd Berlin International Film Festival
Daniel Borgman