The INTERFILM Jury awards the INTERFILM Church Film Prize to the film

Den man älskar / Wen man liebt / To Love Someone
directed by Åke Sandgren, Sweden 2007

The Award carries a prize money of 2500.- €.

Statement of the Jury:
„To Love Someone” centres on the complexity of violence, dependence and love. By means of constant changes in perspective as well as superb acting the film avoids any particular consolidation. Despite its drastic depiction of the destructive potential of love the film simultaneously generates hope that love has the power to change people and to offer them a new future.

Synopsis:
Lena was once brutally beaten up and abused by her ex-husband Hannes. She now lives with Alf, a kind-hearted fishmonger in whose shop she also works. But then Hannes is released from prison and traumatized Lena’s old fears break loose. Although Hannes has absolved an anti-violence training in prison, he is driven by the desire to seek out Lena. And despite her fears Lena, too, cannot resist a certain attraction she feels to Hannes. The former couple begin to see each other again – and Alf can do nothing to prevent the love of his life from slipping slowly but surely from his fingers. (Festrival information)

The members of the jury:

Ralf Meister, provost of the Church Council Luebeck, Germany

Susanne Jakubczyk, art historian, Protestant Forum / City Academy of Kassel, Germany

Birgit O’Sullivan, theologian, consultant for the Bishop of Roskilde, founder and owner of Qultures, Roskilde, Denmark

Anita Uzulniece, film scientist and film critic, Riga, Latvia