Congratulations! third from left, first-place winner Dean Yamada with festival director Fr. Christof Wolf, S.J.
Winner 1st prize: Mujo No Kaze (JAPAN) Winner 2nd prize: Cocoon (BELGIUM) Winner 3rd prize: Blind (USA) Fidel Goetz Emerging Film-Maker Award: Le Tournant d’une Vie (BURUNDI) Audience Award: Judas’ Pane (CANADA) Please read the press report (pdf)  Dear festival visitors, welcome to the 2nd Iņigo Film Festival!
The Jesuits proudly present a finest selection of short films from all over the world. Again, we focus on young filmmakers, which grapple with the spiritual dimension of life. We honor films, which reflect the spiritual yearnings and experiences of young people
today, which show the presence and/or absence of God in our modern secularized world or which take into account the twin dimensions of faith and justice. From more than hundred submissions we selected nineteen extraordinary films on the generaltheme of City of God“. We will screen them in the Loreto Kirribilli School, a wonderful location at the lower north shore suburb of Sydney.
The composition of the films is much variegated. Among them, you can
find exciting, thought-provoking ones as well as unsettled or funny ones. Through these films, you get an amazing impression of the varicolored, manifold and inspiring work of the young, worldwide filmmaking. There are accounts on how to handle with an unexpected pregnancy, how a boy gets an invincible team“ with Jesus on his side, how a former broadway star rejected his nationality and started to fight for an border-overcoming
world, how faith of a young japanese man avoids committing suicide, how Judas changes his destiny, why an auto mechanic gives inspiration for spiritual life and many other great stories.
At the Awards ceremony on the 18th of July, the selection committee will announce the winners. There will be a first prize of EUR 2.500, with a second and third prize of EUR 1.500 and EUR 1.000 respectively. There will be two additional Awards: the Fidel Goetz Emerging Film-Maker
Award” and the other one chosen by the audience (The Audience Award”). Here, your critical view will be asked. Your decision is meaningful and important and will select the winner for this Award!
The Jesuits support the Iņigo Film Festival, to encourage young filmmakers reflecting on spirituality and faith their own way and that they visualize the cultural and societal variety of the legacy of God in the
world – because in the end finding and searching God in all things“, means not only within religious rituals, the nature or in the encounter with others, but also especially in the films, like our late pope John Paul II said: The cinema enjoys a wealth of languages, a multiplicity of styles and a variety of narrative forms that are truly great. It thus offers an incomparable storehouse of expressive means for portraying the various
areas in which the human being finds himself and for interpreting his inescapable calling to the beautiful, the universal and the absolute.”
The 2nd Iņigo Film Festival with its comprehensive program could not take place without the special support of our funding partners and our committed sponsors. Therefore, a very special thank you to all of them! We wish you great pleasure and many inspiring and contemplative
moments while watching the films – maybe you get the chance to meet one of the filmmakers themselves.
We look forward to seeing you at the Loreto Kirribilli School!
Best Regards
Fr. Christof Wolf, S.J.
Festival Director
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