Festival del film Locarno

Download: List of Ecumenical Awards at the Locarno International Film Festival 1973-2017

Below: The representatives of the Swiss Churches, who agreed with festival director Moritz de Hadeln to establish the first Ecumenical Jury (from left to right):

Yvan Stern (Fribourg), communication officer of the bishop of Fribourg-Lausanne, P. Ambros Eichenberger (Zürich), film commissioner of the Catholic media service in Zürich, Pasteur Maurice Terrail (Lausanne), director of the Protestant film office, Rev. Dölf Rindlisbacher (Berne), film commissioner of the Protestant media service:

Before 1973, INTERFILM awarded a Prize in Locarno only once.

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1965

INTERFILM Prize

Aarohi / The Ascent, by Tapan Sinha, India

The film shows a clear tendency towards better human relationships and a better understanding between people. On the basis of an unshakable optimism it contains a positive message from the Orient about life and people which the West should not ignore.

Jury: Dr. H. Gerber, Film Commissioner of the EKD; Ev. Grolle, Delegate of the Ecumenical Film Centre, Holland; Dr. F.Hochstrasser, Lucerne, Editor Film and Radio, President