Independent film award at various film festivals
Award
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Logo of the Jury œcuménique
Awarded for Honours works of quality which touch the spiritual dimension of our existence[1] Location Various international film festivals
The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (French : Prix du Jury Œcuménique ) is an independent film award for feature-length films shown at major international film festivals since 1973. The award was created by Christian film makers,[citation needed ] film critics and other film professionals. The objective of the award is to "honour works of artistic quality which witnesses to the power of film to reveal the mysterious depths of human beings through what concerns them, their hurts and failings as well as their hopes."[1] The ecumenical jury can be composed out of 8, 6, 5, 4 or 3 members, who are nominated by SIGNIS for the Catholics and Interfilm for the Protestants.[2] SIGNIS and Interfilm appoint ecumenical juries at various international film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival (where The Ecumenical Jury (French : Jury Œcuménique ) is one of three juries at the film festival, along with the official jury and the FIPRESCI jury), Berlin International Film Festival , Locarno International Film Festival , Montreal World Film Festival and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival .[1]
First Awarded
1973 (Locarno ), 1974 (Cannes ), 1978 (Nyon), 1979 (Montréal ), 1992 (Berlin ), 1994 (Karlovy Vary ), 1994 (Leipzig ), 1995 (Mannheim-Heidelberg ), 1998 (Fribourg), 1999 (Cottbus), 2000 (Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage), 2001 (Bratislava), 2001 (Zlín Children & Youth), 2007 (Yerevan), 2008 (Kyiv Molodist), 2010 (Warsaw ), 2011 (Miskolc), 2015 (Saarbrücken), 2016 (Chemnitz Schlingel), 2019 (Faludi).
Winners
Films from diverse countries have won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Most films having won the award are from European countries, with Italy, Germany and Poland dominating. Andrei Tarkovsky is the only director to have won three times. Samira Makhmalbaf was the first woman to win the award (followed by Naomi Kawase and Nadine Labaki ). Samira's father Mohsen Makhmalbaf was the first director from a predominantly Muslim country.[citation needed ] Countries that are not predominantly Christian that have won the award are Japan and the People's Republic of China .[citation needed ] In 1998 a special award was given to Ingmar Bergman at Cannes film festival for his whole body of work.[3] [4]
Year
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
1973
The Illumination
Iluminacja
Krzysztof Zanussi
Poland
1974
25 Fireman's Street
Tüzolto Utca 25
István Szabó
Hungary
27 Down
Awtar Krishna Kaul
India
1975
Noua
Abdelaziz Tolbi
Algeria
1976
Harvest: 3,000 Years
Mirt Sost Shi Amit
Haile Gerima
Ethiopia
1977
The Guest: An episode in the Life of Eugène Marais
Ross Devenish
South Africa
1978
Baara
Souleymane Cissé
Mali
1979
Les petites fugues
Yves Yersin
Switzerland
1980
In for Treatment
Opname
Marja Kok , Erik van Zuylen
Netherlands
1981
Chakra
चक्र
Rabindra Dharmaraj
India
1982
Parti sans laisser d'adresse
Jacqueline Veuve
France
1983
The Planet 'Tailor'
Planeta krawiec
Jerzy Domaradzki
Poland
1984
The Terence Davies Trilogy
Terence Davies
United Kingdom
Tiznao
Salvador Bonet, Dominique Cassuto de Bonet
Venezuela
1985
Alpine Fire
Höhenfeuer
Fredi M. Murer
Switzerland
1986
Lamb
Colin Gregg
United Kingdom
1987
With Love to the Person Next to Me
Brian McKenzie
Australia
1988
Family Viewing
Atom Egoyan
Canada
1989
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은?
Bae Yong-kyun
South Korea
1990
Hush-a-Bye Baby
Margo Harkin
United Kingdom
1991
Cloud-Paradise
Облако-рай
Nikolai Dostal
Soviet Union
1992
Family Portrait
四十不惑
Li Shaohong
China
1993
Bhaji on the Beach
भाजी ऑन द बीच
Gurinder Chadha
United Kingdom
1994
Ermo
二嫫
Zhou Xiaowen
China
1995
Sept En Attente
Françoise Etchegaray
France
1996
Honey and Ashes
Miel et cendres
Nadia Farès
Switzerland, Tunisia
1997
The Crazy Stranger
Gadjo dilo
Tony Gatlif
France
1998
Titanic Town
Roger Michell
United Kingdom
1999
Life Doesn't Scare Me
La vie ne me fait pas peur
Noémie Lvovsky
France
2000
Father
爸爸
Wang Shuo
China
2001
L'Afrance
Alain Gomis
France, Senegal
Promises (special prize)
Carlos Bolado , B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro
United States
2002
The Cage
La cage
Alain Raoust
France
2003
Silent Waters
خاموش پانی
Sabiha Sumar
Pakistan
2004
Yasmin
Kenneth Glenaan
Germany, United Kingdom
2005
The Novena
La Neuvaine
Bernard Émond
Canada
2006
Water
Agua
Verónica Chen
Argentina, France
2007
The Yellow House
La maison jaune
Amor Hakkar
Algeria, France
2008
Black Sea
Mar nero
Federico Bondi
Italy
2009
Plato's Academy
Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος
Filippos Tsitos
Greece
2010
Morgen
Marian Crișan
Romania
2011
Special Flight
Vol spécial
Fernand Melgar
Switzerland
2012
A Lady in Paris
Une Estonienne à Paris
Ilmar Raag
France, Belgium, Estonia
2013
Short Term 12
Destin Daniel Cretton
United States
2014
The Fool
Дурак
Yuri Bykov
Russia
2015
Paradise
ما, در بهشت
Sina Ataeian Dena
Iran
2016
Godless
Безбог
Ralitza Petrova
Bulgaria
2017
Lucky
John Carroll Lynch
United States
2018
Sibel
Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
Turkey
2019
Maternal
Hogar
Maura Delpero
Argentina
2021
Soul of a Beast
Lorenz Merz
Switzerland
2022
Tales of the Purple House
حكايات البيت الأرجواني
Abbas Fahdel
Lebanon, Iraq, France
Year
English
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
1994
Palms
Ладони
Artour Aristakisian
Russia
1995
The Garden
Záhrada
Martin Sulík
Slovakia, France
1996
Prisoner of the Mountains
Кавказский пленник
Sergei Bodrov
Russia, Kazakhstan
1997
Forgotten Light
Zapomenuté světlo
Vladimír Michálek
Czech Republic
1998
The Harmonists
Comedian Harmonists
Joseph Vilsmaier
Germany
1999
A Reasonable Man
Gavin Hood
South Africa
2000
Big Animal
Duże zwierzę
Jerzy Stuhr
Poland
2001
Chico
Eduardo Rózsa Flores
Hungary
2002
Cisza
Michał Rosa
Poland
2003
Babusya
Бабуся
Lidia Bobrova
Russia
2004
Cavedweller
Lisa Cholodenko
United States
2005
Chinaman
中国先生
Henrik Ruben Genz
Denmark, China
2006
Destiny
El destino
Miguel Pereira
Argentina
2007
Simple Things
Простые вещи
Aleksey Popogrebskiy
Russia
2008
The Photograph
Nan Achnas
Indonesia
2009
Twenty
بیست
Abdolreza Kahani
Iran
2010
Another Sky
Другое небо
Dmitry Mamuliya
Russia
2011
Cracks in the Shell
Die Unsichtbare
Christian Schwochow
Germany
2012
Camion
Rafaël Ouellet
Canada
2013
Bluebird
Lance Edmands
United States
2014
Corn Island
სიმინდის კუნძული
Giorgi Ovashvili
Georgia
2015
Bob and the Trees
Diego Ongaro
United States
2016
The Confessions
Le confessioni
Roberto Andò
Italy
2017
The Cakemaker
האופה מברלין
Ofir Raul Graizer
Israel, Germany
2018
Redemption
גאולה
Joseph Madmony, Boaz Jonathan Yacov
Israel
2019
Lara
Jan-Ole Gerster
Germany
2021
As Far as I Can Walk
Strahinja Banović
Stefan Arsenijević
Serbia, France, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Lithuania
2022
A Provincial Hospital
Edna provintsalna bolnitsa
Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva
Bulgaria, Germany
References
General
Vaccaro, Pierre (May 2008). "Jury Œcuménique - 34ème année" (PDF) (in French). Jury Œcuménique. p. 4. Retrieved 2008-09-04 .
"Film Primes" (in French). Jury Œcuménique. Archived from the original on 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2008-09-05 .
Specific
^ a b c "Ecumenical Jury - 39th Year" (PDF) . Ecumenical Jury. May 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-21 .
^ Vaccaro, Pierre (2008-05-08). "Communiqué de presse - Le Jury oecumenique 2008" (PDF) (in French). Jury Œcuménique. Retrieved 2008-09-05 .
^ "Ingmar Bergman's Centennial: A Time to Celebrate Joy of Filmmaking". Variety.com . 22 June 2018.
^ "51st International Film Festival Cannes". inter-film.org .
^ "Cannes Film Festival 2021: Full Winners List". Asia Tatler . 18 July 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2022 .
^ Scott Roxborough (27 May 2022). "Cannes: 'Broker' Wins Ecumenical Jury Award for Best Film". Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 28 May 2022 .
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