Le 60ème Festival international du Film pour enfants et adolescents, initialement prévu en mai a été déplacé en septembre et a été organisé live. Le Jury œcuménique a pu également travailler sur place. Il a décerné son prix à un film de la compétition internationale pour films d’enfants et de celle pour films d’adolescents, chacune comportant sept films.
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The life of teenager Rocks and her younger brother Emmanuel is radically altered when their mother disappears. The girl is unable to find any help from her schoolmates and is afraid of separation from her brother.
The Ecumenical Jury gives a Commendation to the film realized in a documentary style, without an easy happy ending, showing the struggling of Rocks to save her family and to live her life with Emmanuel. In a multiethnic London society, a dialogue between generations and cultures becomes necessary to assure a better future of the less privileged.
Katya, outstanding ballet talent, prepares to enter a famous New York Ballet Academy when she gets fascinated by hip-hop, music and dance. Not without opposition of her father, she follows her new dream.
The Ecumenical Jury appreciates the value of freedom of personal choices made in continuity with tradition, the dance and the music considered an expression of the absolute beauty, the value of the family relations, and the importance of intercultural and intergenerational dialogue in the modern Western society.