Two Indian films have been awarded by the Ecumenical Jury Zlín 2017. The winner of its prize is "Half Ticket" by Samit Kakkad. For a commendation the jury choose "Railway Children" by Prithvi Konanur.

"Hikari" by Japanese director Naomi Kawase won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. The Golden Palm was awarded to "The Square" by Ruben Östlund from Sweden.

The festival screened altogether 499 films from 58 countries. 56 films were running in the international competition from which the ecumenical jury chose its award winner.

For the 13th time an interreligious jury awarded prizes at the festival Visions du Réel in Nyon. The jury, composed of a Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim member, took its choices among the 19 films of the international competition for long films.

"This should be the primary purpose of any self-respecting festival: to never indulge certainties. Quite the opposite: it should question and destabilise them and, if possible, take them on unexpected new journeys." Thus Thierry Jobin, artistic director of the Festival International de Films de Fribourg, characterizes the guiding idea of the event.