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52nd Festival Visions Du Réel Nyon International Film Festival

52nd Festival Visions Du Réel Nyon International Film Festival
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INTERRELIGIOUS JURY PRIZE

 

An Interreligious Jury, appointed by SIGNIS (World Association for Catholic Communication/www.signis.net) and INTERFILM (International Inter-Church Film Organisation /www.inter-film.org), has participated at the Festival Visions du Réel in Nyon (Switzerland) since 2005. The jury includes a representative of SIGNIS and INTERFILM and a member of Jewish and of Muslim faith.

The jury awards a feature-length film of the international competition and possibly a commendation that sheds light on existential, social or spiritual questions as well as human values. The prize of CHF 5’000 is donated by the Swiss Catholic Church, the Reformed Churches in the French-speaking part Switzerland (CER) and its Media Departement Média-pro, and the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG).

 

The jury awarded its Prize to the film:


LITTLE PALESTINE / Journal d’un siège / Diary of a Siege

directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib
(Lebanon/France/Qatar 2020, 83’)


(EN). People in the sealed-off Yarmuk refugee camp assert their humanity in the Syrian civil war despite hunger and lack of prospects, while the humanitarian world remains on the sidelines. When a small street choir sings to piano accompaniment and the noise of bombs, their song joins the sad chorale of similar sieges in world history.

(DE). Menschen im abgeriegelten Flüchtlingslager Yarmuk behaupten im syrischen Bürgerkrieg trotz Hunger und Perspektivlosigkeit ihre Menschlichkeit, während die humanitäre Welt außen vor bleibt. Wenn ein kleiner Straßenchor zu Pianobegleitung und Bombenlärm singt, reiht sich ihr Gesang ein in den traurigen Choral ähnlicher Belagerungen der Weltgeschichte.

(FR) Les habitants du quartier de réfugiés bouclé de Yarmuk luttent pour conserver leur humanité malgré la faim et le manque de perspective entraînés par la guerre civile en Syrie alors que les humanitaires brillent par leur absence. Lorsqu’un petit chœur improvise au son d’un piano et accompagné du grondement des bombardements, il fait écho au chapelet de lamentations traversant l’Histoire mondiale.

Members of the Interreligious Jury 2021:

Noëmi Gradwohl, Bern (Switzerland)
Marie-Therese Mäder, Zurich (Switzerland) - President
Jean-Paul Käser, Biel-Bienne (Switzerland)
Majid Movasseghi, Zurich (Switzerland)