"This year's Big Screen Award goes to a film that explores themes of morality, family, resilience and dogma, a layered film that encapsulates a very local and perhaps little-known story in a profoundly universal theme. Driven by a complex leading role, the film is stunningly shot, literally composing its own language. A film that asks painful questions that were relevant almost a century ago and, as it turns out, are even more relevant today."
