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AWARD OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
carrying a prize money of 2000.- €, donated by the VCH Hotels Germany GmbH – in the “Verband christlicher Hoteliers e.V.”, including the Hotel MICHAELIS in Leipzig

At the DOK Leipzig – 56th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, gives its Prize to the film

Normalization
directed by Robert Kirchhoff, Slovakia/Czech Republik, 2013

Photo: © DOK Leipzig

for a remarkable journalistic and artistic work about the unsolved murder case of a young woman and a group of wrongly convicted men.
But the film is much more than that. It shows that we cannot escape history, when we build our presence and our future.
The film leads us strongly to the biblical question of What is truth? In a personal way it is a matter of conscience, in society a matter of legal responsibility and justice and in a universal way it is a matter of how to be human.

Members of the Jury:
Guido Erbrich, Magdeburg (Germany)
Ylva Liljeholm, Visby (Sweden)
Christiane Thiel, Leipzig (Germany)
Catherine Wong, Hong Kong (China)