The film, funny and full of good ideas, tells about friendship and hope, and takes seriously the plight of refugees.
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Berlin
Awards of the Ecumenical Jury
Das neue Land
2000
2000
Blue End, a classical documentary, examines the digital instrumentalization of the body of an executed murderer. The film strongly confronts the question of how the justice system and modern science treat the person and in doing so raises basic questions of human dignity.
Italienisch für Anfänger
2000
The fresh, inspirational film portrays universal human values like love and compassion in a simple and humorous way.
2001
Wit poignantly portrays the journey of a woman to her death. In the course of the film, this scholar of aesthical poetry of life and death, must confront the impersonality of her cancer treatment, surrender the masks behind which she hides and search for hope in the face of imminent death.
Festival films
Jury
President
Hans Hodel
Minister and religious educator, Honorary President of INTERFILMJames Abbott
Jeffrey Mahan
Margrit Frölich
Angelika Obert
Kersti Uibo
Ernesto Laura
Richard Leonard
Cireneu Kuhn