Over one hundred entrants, gathered from morning to night in the Theatre du Passage to view the films and wait for the jury’s verdict which is going to be delivered on October 4th with an official afternoon ceremony to mark the end of the festival. “The prize will be awarded to those films that, as well as quality and technical features, offer the viewers a deep and hopeful spiritual message”, explains André Kolly, the organiser of the Award. The three winners of the three categories will be given a money prize of 2000 Swiss francs and a bas-relief sculpted by Swiss artist Francis Berthoud. The many subjects and stories addressed by the films include the experience of the French Protestants with the “Café biblique”, the American Amish community that lives according to religious and social rules that deeply clash with modernity, the genocide in Rwanda, the new phenomenon of the evangelical churches imported from the USA which have gained ground amidst the young in Switzerland, which often mix up religion with politics.
