Visions du Réel 2012

43. Festival international du cinéma Nyon
20.04.2012 to 27.04.2012
Nyon

© Miguel Bueno
The Jury, from left: Alain le Goanvic, Roza Berger-Fiedler, Marie-Thérèse Mäder, Mehdi Sahebi

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Awards of the Interreligious Jury

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon 2012
900 Dagen
900 Days
Directed by:
Jessica Gorter
Netherlands
2011

The film focuses in a multi-layered manner on the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War. Thanks to a precise and moving construction of images and sounds, the filmmaker succeeds in showing the contradiction between the witness' individual memory and the instrumentalization of history by political power. Individual destinies put into question the retrospection of the past and reveal the manipulation of human beings and their recollection.

Commendation of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon 2012
De regels van Matthijs
Matthew's Laws
Directed by:
Marc Schmidt
Niederlande
2012

The filmmaker shows his autistic friend in a sensitive way. The pictures tactfully and sincerely display his and the society's incapacity of changing Matthijs' fate.

Festival films

900 Dagen
900 Days
Jessica Gorter
Netherlands
2011
De regels van Matthijs
Matthew's Laws
Marc Schmidt
Netherlands
2012

Jury

Since 2005, SIGNIS and INTERFILM have been present at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon (Switzerland) with an interreligious jury. Since 2008, the jury includes a representative of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Church, and a member of Jewish and Muslim faith. The jury awards a film of the international competition and possibly a commendation. This prize of CHF 5’000 is donated by both 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
Marie-Thérèse Mäder
Media and religious studies scholar
Switzerland

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