Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin 1999 (Wettbewerb)

In today´s world economic and social policies cannot cope with real hardships of unemployment and family poverty. Bertrand Tavernier has opened his audiences´ eyes and hearts of children and their families, showing a committed, creative teacher, and a man of poetic search, but also an ordinary „non-heroic“ man, and his anger at the system and regulation-driven bureaucrats as well as his ability to affirm children and transform his professional and private world.