Bernese director Djibril Vuille wins bilingualism prize

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The Swiss Capital Region has awarded its "Prize for Bilingualism" to Bernese film director Djibril Vuille.

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Vuille’s feature film debut Schoggi deals with important contemporary issues and shows multilingualism in action, the association said.

The jury honoured “the convincing project of a filmmaker who links individual conflicts with universal issues” with the prize of CHF15,000 ($18,600), Capital Region Switzerland said on Friday.

In Schoggi, Vuille tells the story of a Senegalese-Swiss schoolgirl who becomes the face of a Swiss chocolate campaign. The film’s use of language is special: the film switches fluently between Bernese German, French and Wolof.

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The purpose of the prize for multilingualism is to promote young cultural talent, bilingualism and multilingualism as well as the exchange between language cultures and mutual understanding, the press release said. The mayor of Biel/Bienne, Glenda Gonzalez Bassi, chaired the jury.

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