Fribourg
19th International Film Festival Fribourg
March 6 – 13, 2005
Award of the Ecumenical Jury of SIGNIS and INTERFILM
This award consisting of CHF 5'000.- is conferred jointly by two swiss institutions working in development cooperation, "Action de Carême" and "Bread for all", to the director whose film bests reflects the working criteria of the two institutions in the field of North-South cooperation.
The Ecumenical Jury of the 19th Fribourg International Film Festival is composed of
Mme Anne-Béatrice Schwab, Switzerland (President)
M. Hervé Malfuson, France
Mme Bernadette Meier, Switzerland
Mme Teresa R.Tunay, Philippines
The award goes to
Yi zhi huà naeniu (The Black and White Milk Cow)
by Yang Jin, Chine 2004
Motivation: The Black and White Milk Cow is a courageous film, shot with a very low budget, minimalist, austere, without tricks and  against the mainstream. Beyond the most absolute destitution and the little things of daily life, it tells us how kindness, modesty, dignity and the awareness of the other allow us to fight despair. This different gaze allows us also to talk about our lives here as well as our commitments and responsibilities.
Synopsis: The first film of a young director who is a student at Peking University, Yi zhi huà naeniu take us into a remote Chinese province, quite forgotten by current economic development. At his father’s death Jinsheng has to quit school to take care of his grandmother. He returns to his village to substitute for the teacher at the request of his uncle, who is the head of the village. But Yangjiagou is a poor region, and the officials have nothing to offer the young man as a salary than a milk cow and a school in ruins. But Jinsheng will nit be discouraged.
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