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