Festival Visions du Réel Nyon
Festival international de cinema - International Film Festival
15 – 21 April 2010

http://www.visionsdureel.ch/

PRIZE OF THE INTERRELIGIOUS JURY

From 2005 SIGNIS and INTERFILM have been present at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon (Switzerland) with an interreligious jury. From 2008, the jury include a representative of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Church, and a member from the Jewish and the Muslim faith. The jury will award its prize to a film from the international competition and possibly a commendation. This prize endowed with CHF 5’000 by the Swiss Catholic and the Swiss Protestant Churches (Conference of the Churches in the French speaking part of Switzerland/CER and the “Reformierte Medien” in Zurich).

The members of the interreligious jury 2010, nominated by the Swiss representatives of SIGNIS and INTERFILM, were: Ege Görgün (Turkey), Daniel Grivel (Switzerland), Nathalie Roncier (France) and Brigitta Rotach (Switzerland) as president.

The interreligious jury awards its prize of 5000.-  to the film

Steam of Life / Miesten Vuoro
 by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen, Finland/Sweden 2010

Through the sauna, a lava’s cornerstone of the finish art of living, the co-directors present men who show themselves naked – in every meaning of the word. Rhythmed like a choral song, STEAM OF LIFE mixes tears and smiles, sorrows and joys, shared emotions, in a spirit of forgiveness, serenity and brotherhood.