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]
| 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 |
First Awarded
edit1973 (Locarno), 1974 (Cannes), 1978 (Nyon, later renamed to "Visions du Réel"), 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
editCannes Film Festival (1974 - present)
editFilms 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 had also won the award. 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]
Berlin International Film Festival (1992 - present)
editMontréal Film Festival (1979-2019)
edit| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production 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 | Žena s krajolikom | Ivica Matić | 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 | Belgium, Netherlands | |
| 2008 | Wolf | Varg | Daniel Alfredson | Sweden |
| 2009 | Ceasefire | 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 |
Locarno Film Festival (1973 - present)
edit| 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 | نوة | Abdelaziz Tolbi | Algeria |
| 1976 | Harvest: 3,000 Years | ምርት "፫ሺህ ዓመት" | 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 |
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1994 - present)
edit| 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 | Една провинциална болница | Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva | Bulgaria, Germany |
References
editGeneral
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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.
External links
edit- Official webpage of the jury
- Official webpage of the Cannes Film Festival
- SIGNIS
- Interfilm