Visions du Réel 2009

40th Festival international du cinéma Nyon
23.04.2009 to 29.04.2009
Nyon

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Awards of the Interreligious Jury

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon 2009
Seishin
Mental
Directed by:
Kazuhiro Sôda
Japan, USA
2008

The film is focussing on individuals diagnosed to suffer from mental diseases. They let us participate in their inner life, showing how fluid the limit between normacy and illness can be. The film presents a respectful image of human integrity.

Commendation of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon 2009
Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Directed by:
Vadim Jendreyko
Switzerland, Germany
2009

A commendation went to the film The Woman With the 5 Elephants (Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten) for its poetic portrait of the translator Swetlana Geier, who preserved her humanity despite terrible life experiences.

Festival films

Seishin
Mental
Kazuhiro Sôda
Japan, USA
2008
Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Vadim Jendreyko
Switzerland, Germany
2009

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 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 is 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).

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