The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury goes to the richest film in competition for its form and content. In its stupefying images it shows, in spite of religious and cultural differences, spiritual values which form a counterpoint to the materialsm and destruction of the environment, values which are essential for the survival of creation.
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
03.08.1989 to 13.08.1989
Locarno
Awards
Why Did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East?
Directed by:
1989
Where is the Friend's House?
Directed by:
1987
This poetic film relates simply and without pretention a child's first steps towards cutting loose from the oppressing authority of adults and the apprenticeship of solidarity.
The Birth
Directed by:
1989
With compact and impressive images the film retraces the story of a father searching desperately for his son; this quest fails because of a State which conceals the truth.