Film Awards

2004 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerThe Motorcycle DiariesWalter SallesThe dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.Amazon

2003 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerAt Five in the AfternoonSamira MakhmalbafIn a post-Taliban Afghanistan a young woman (Agheleh Rezaie) attends school against her conservative father's will, hoping to learn more about democracy to fulfill her dream of being the country's next president.Amazon

2002 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerThe Man Without a PastAki KaurismäkiM arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.Amazon

2001 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerThe Sun Behind the MoonMohsen MakhmalbafAfter an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.Amazon

2000 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerCode UnknownMichael HanekeA young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?AmazonEurekaShinji AoyamaThe traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.AmazonFast Food Fast WomenAmos KollekHow important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. ...Amazon

1999 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerAll About My MotherPedro AlmodóvarYoung Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.Amazon

1998 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerEternity and a DayTheodoros AngelopoulosFamous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.Amazon

1997 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerThe Sweet HereafterAtom EgoyanA bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.Amazon

1996 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerSecrets & LiesMike LeighA successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.Amazon

1995 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerLand and FreedomKen LoachDavid is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.Amazon