Visions du Réel 2011

42nd Festival international du cinéma Nyon
06.04.2011 to 13.04.2011
Nyon

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From left: Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Hassouna Mansouri, Jacqueline Veuve, Raphael Pifko

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Awards of the Interreligious Jury

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon 2011
El lugar más pequeño
The Tiniest Place
Directed by:
Tatiana Huezo
Mexico
2011

The film describes a small village in El Salvador where daily life is slowly coming back while people are challenged by the traumatising memories of the civil war. An elaborated style allows the depiction of the tragedies avoiding all kind of clichés and even celebrating life. Violence is recalled but not shown. The shift between sound and image opens space for a meaningful silence.

Commendation of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon 2011
Scheich Ibrahim, Bruder Jihad
Scheich Ibrahim, Bruder Jihad
Directed by:
Andres Rump
Germany
2010

With a limpid and respectful style, the film gives a sober vision of an ideal shared by two characters belonging to different religious traditions.

Festival films

El lugar más pequeño
The Tiniest Place
Tatiana Huezo
Mexico
2011
Scheich Ibrahim, Bruder Jihad
Scheich Ibrahim, Bruder Jihad
Andres Rump
Germany
2010

Jury

From 2005 SIGNIS and INTERFILM have been present at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon (Switzerland) with an interreligious jury. From 2008, the jury include a representative of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Church, and a member from the Jewish and the Muslim faith. The jury will award its prize to a film from the international competition and possibly a commendation. This prize endowed with CHF 5’000 by the Swiss Catholic and the Swiss Protestant Churches (Conference of the Churches in the French speaking part of Switzerland/CER and the “Reformierte Medien” in Zurich).

President
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Professor for science of religion at the University Munich
Switzerland

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