Jury members:
Melanie Pollmeier, Switzerland, Jury President
Ileana Bîrsan, Romania
Philippe Cabrol, France
Roland Kauffmann, France
Since 1973, the Ecumenical Jury has awarded its prize to film directors whose artistic talents have been most successful in raising viewers’ awareness of religious, human, and social values. The Jury looks at the vision of creative film directors who demonstrate an affinity with justice, peace and respect, as well as spiritual dimensions. The award consists of a sum of CHF 10,000 for the film director, and is offered by the Reformed Churches and the Catholic Church in Switzerland.
Jury members:
Britt Sørensen, Norway, Jury President
Alonso Aguilar Candanedo, Costa Rica
Alessandro Amato, Italy
Savina Petkova, Bulgaria
Sabrina Schwob, Switzerland
To promote cinema as an art form and encourage new and young cinema, the International Federation of Film Critics awards the International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) to a film presented in competition.
Jury Members:
Yuliia Antypova, Ukraine
Catherine Lemaire, Belgium
Roxanne Sayegh, Canada
Verena von Stackelberg, Germany
Created in 2003, the Europa Cinemas Label seeks to enhance the promotion, circulation, and box-office runs of award-winning European films across the screens of the Europa Cinemas network. The Europa Cinemas Label is awarded by a jury of network exhibitors to one of the European feature films selected in Concorso Internazionale and Concorso Cineasti del Presente, and gives the awarded film the resources necessary to reach a large audience. The Label intervenes at a key moment in a film’s career, as its first presentation at a major festival represents a crucial strategic step on the way to its launch on the international market. The Label brings together media representatives, sales agents, distributors, and exhibitors by providing the latter with a financial incentive for programming the film upon its national release date, and then for extending its run. Europa Cinemas, which comprises 3,146 screens in 1,279 cinemas established in 799 cities in 39 countries, encourages its members to screen recipients of the Europa Cinemas Label all over the network.
As part of the Cinema&Gioventù initiative – organized by Castellinaria Festival del cinema giovane on behalf of the Department of Education, Culture, and Sport of the Canton Ticino – three juries made up of young film fans will award the following prizes: a jury will select the three best directors of full-length features shown in the Concorso Internazionale: 1st prize CHF 6,000, 2nd prize CHF 4,000, 3rd prize CHF 2,000. A prize of CHF 2,000 will be awarded to the best film in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente. A jury will award two prizes of CHF 1,500 to the best short films in the Concorso Nazionale and Concorso Internazionale in the Pardi di Domani section. The jury will also award the best film in the Concorso Cortoid’Autore section. Finally, two special prizes of CHF 3,000 and CHF 2,000, offered by the Ticino Department of Internal Affairs, will be awarded to the feature film from the Concorso Internazionale and the short film from Open Doors Screenings that best illustrate the concept “The environment is quality of life”.
Jury Members:
Stéphane Gobbo, Switzerland
Mala Reinhardt, Germany
Simonetta Sommaruga, Switzerland
The Grand Prix Semaine de la Critique – Prix SRG SSR, worth CHF 5,000, goes to the producer and director of the best film. Since 2021, Semaine de la Critique, in memory of its general delegate who passed away in 2020, has been awarding the Marco Zucchi Award, worth CHF 2,000, to the formally and aesthetically most innovative documentary film.
