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Monaco: ICRC press prize awarded for eighth time
11-06-2010 News Release 10/112
Monaco/Paris (ICRC) – This year's International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) press prize was awarded at the 50th Monte Carlo Television Festival to director Kati Juurus for her documentary Fingerprints.
T he film, produced by the YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company), follows the jumbled lives of four refugees from armed conflict – Ali, a Somali, and the Kurdish couple Mohammad and Diya, and their baby Sahand – who seek asylum in Finland. As they move from one European country to another, from hope to despair, from government office to government office, from squats to detention centres, the fate that awaits them remains unclear until the film draws to a close.
The ICRC jury was struck by Ms Juurus's intensely compassionate treatment of the heroes of her film, whose experiences illustrate the plight of the hundreds of thousands of migrants currently seeking their place in the world.
The ICRC press prize was created in 2003. It is awarded to a current-affairs programme that promotes the principles of international humanitarian law by covering an armed conflict in terms of the suffering it inflicts.
For further information, please contact:Frédéric Joli, ICRC Paris, tel: +33 6 20 49 46 30
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