Atom Egoyan movie wins prize for its spiritual values
CANNES, France -- Adoration, a film by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, has won the ecumenical jury prize -- the award given for movies that celebrate spiritual values -- at the Cannes Film Festival.
Adoration, which is about a teenage boy who re-creates his own identity on the Internet, "invites us to re-evaluate existing cliches about the Other or that which is foreign in our own culture and religion," the jury said.
An emotional Egoyan said he was "overwhelmed" by the choice and also by the citation, which he called beautifully worded. "The jury got the movie," he said after the ceremony.