The director depicts the story of a couple that moves to the countryside, and lives through the experience of a family life with delicate balances, and the way our beloved ones, with their projects and expectations, limit each other's freedom.
The director presents the difficult acceptance of Aids in a traditional society, through a drama based on the life of a courageous mother who is HIV positive.
In a village far back in the Paraiba Valley in Brazil, where time seems to have stopped, and where a community of elderly people is repeating every day the same gestures and rituals, a young photographer walks in all of a sudden. Her arrival will wake up this sleeping corner of the world.
The film is about time that elapses, memory, death, and shows how the irruption of youth, and the use of photography, can revive remembrances and give a new sense to life. The graveyard, which had been symbolically closed, opens again.
This award consisting of CHF 5'000 is conferred jointly by two institutions of the churches working in development cooperation, Fastenopfer (catholic) and Bread for All (protestant), to the director whose film best reflects the situation of men and women in Africa, Asia and Latin America and stands for Human Rights and Solidarity.