Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
| Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | |
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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 |
| First awarded |
1973 (Locarno) 1974 (Cannes) 1979 (Montréal) 1992 (Berlin) 1994 (Karlovy Vary) 1994 (Leipzig DOK) 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) |
The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (French: Prix du Jury Œcuménique) is an independent film award for feature films at major international film festivals since 1973. The award was created by Christian film makers, 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]
Prize Winners
Cannes (since 1974)
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 is the only woman who has won the award and, until Asghar Farhadi won the prize in 2013, she and her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf were the only winning directors from a predominantly Muslim country. Other countries that are not predominantly Christian that have won the award are Japan and the People's Republic of China. At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival the ecumenical jury gave its award to Ken Loach's Looking for Eric and not to Lars von Trier's film Antichrist which was a rumor.[3]
Berlin (since 1992)
Montréal (since 1979)
| Year | Film | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Night-Flowers | Louis San Andres |  United States |
| 1980 | Sunday Daughters (Vasárnapi szülök) | János Rózsa |  Hungary |
| 1981 | Sally and Freedom (Sally och friheten) | Gunnel Lindblom |  Sweden |
| 1982 | Begin the Beguine (Volver a Empezar) | José Luis Garci |  Spain |
| 1983 | The Go Masters (未完の対局) | Ji-shun Duan, Junya Sato |  Japan |
| 1984 | Annie's Coming Out | Gil Brealey |  Australia |
| 1985 | Power of Evil (Le pouvoir du mal) | Krzysztof Zanussi |  France |
| 1986 | My Sweet Little Village (Vesničko má středisková) | Jiří Menzel |  Czechoslovakia |
| 1987 | Farewell Moscow (Mosca addio) | Mauro Bolognini |  Italy |
| 1988 | Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair |  India |
| 1989 | Last Images of the Shipwreck (Últimas imágenes del naufragio) | Eliseo Subiela |  Argentina Spain |
| 1989 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | Jim Sheridan |  Ireland |
| 1990 | Landscape with a Woman (Zena s krajolikom) | Ivica Matic |  Yugoslavia |
| 1991 | War and Youth (戦争と青春) | Tadashi Imai | Japan |
| 1992 | Sofie | Henri Nathansen |  Denmark |
| 1993 | The Long Silence (Il lungo silenzio) | Margarethe von Trotta | Italy |
| 1994 | Once Were Warriors | Alan Duff |  New Zealand |
| 1995 | Deep River (深い河) | Kei Kumai | Japan |
| 1996 | Hamsun | Jan Troell |  Norway Denmark Sweden |
| 1997 | Children of Heaven (بچههای آسمان) | Majid Majidi |  Iran |
| 1998 | The Lighthouse (El faro) | Eduardo Mignogna | Argentina Spain |
| 1999 | Goya in Bordeaux (Goya en Burdeos) | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| 2000 | Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (علي زاوا) | Nabil Ayouch |  Morocco |
| 2001 | Abandoned (Torzók) | Arpád Sopsits | Hungary |
| 2002 | The Last Train (El último tren: Corazón de fuego) | Diego Arsuaga |  Uruguay Argentina |
| 2003 | Gaz Bar Blues | Louis Bélanger |  Canada |
| 2004 | The Syrian Bride (הכלה הסורית) | Eran Riklis |  Israel |
| 2005 | Kamataki | Claude Gagnon | Canada Japan |
| 2006 | A Long Walk (長い散歩) | Eiji Okuda | Japan |
| 2007 | Ben X | Nic Balthazar | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium  Netherlands |
| 2008 | Wolf (Varg) | Daniel Alfredson | Sweden |
| 2009 | The Truce (Waffenstillstand) | Lancelot von Naso |  Germany |
| 2010 | Oxygen (Adem) | Hans Van Nuffel | Belgium |
| 2011 | David | Joel Fendelman | United States |
| 2012 | End of the No-Hunting Season (Ende der Schonzeit) | Franziska Schlotterer | Germany |
| 2013 | Life Feels Good (Chce się żyć) | Maciej Pieprzyca |  Poland |
| 2014 | Cape Nostalgia (ふしぎな岬の物語) | Izuru Narushima | Japan |
| 2015 | The Midnight Orchestra (L'orchestre de minuit) | Jérôme Cohen Olivar | Morocco |
| 2016 | This year no ecumenical Prize has been awarded |
Locarno (since 1973)
| Year | Film | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | The Illumination (Iluminacja) | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 1974 | 25 Fireman's Street (Tüzolto Utca 25) | István Szabó | Hungary |
| 1974 | 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 |
| 1984 | 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 |
| 2001 | 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 (Bezbog) | Ralitza Petrova |  Bulgaria |
Karlovy Vary (since 1994)
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
- 1 2 3 "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.
- ↑ . Stone, Jay (May 23, 2009). "Antichrist gets an anti-award in Cannes". National Post. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
External links
- Official webpage of the jury
- Official webpage of the Cannes Film Festival
- SIGNIS
- Interfilm