The International Mercurius Prize, headquartered in Zurich, was established in 2017 with the aim of promoting the connection between Jungian psychology, audiences and film.
To this end, the Mercurius Prize is awarded to short films and documentaries with a particular psychological slant and sensitivity to the theme of human rights, capable of raising audiences’ awareness and heightening their sense of responsibility at both the individual and collective level.
The film
Yuki Sunada
CHILDREN’S TEARS-SEARCHING
FOR JAPANESE FATHERS
Japan, the Netherlands, 49’, 2014
The main characters in this story are the children born during the Second World War to Eurasian women and occupying Japanese troops in the Dutch East Indies. At the end of the war, many of these women moved with their children to the Netherlands, while the fathers returned to Japan. The absence of their "Japanese fathers" cast a long shadow over the lives of these children.
DiscussionTeatro Sociale in Como, Sala Bianca, Thursday, December 7 at 3:30 pm.: a
discussion featuring the artistic director for the Mercurius Prize, Chiara Tozzi, the president Murray Stein, Keith Hiatt, Luis Moris and the filmmaker Yuki Sunada.
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich (1973) and of Yale University (1965), Yale Divinity School (1969) and the University of Chicago (1985). He is a founding member of The Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts. He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of The International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich from 2008-2012. He has lectured internationally and is the author of In MidLife, Jung’s Map of the Soul, Minding the Self, and Soul Retrieval and Treatment as well of numerous articles on analytical psychology and Jungian psychoanalysis. He is the Jungian editor for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis as well as the editor of Jungian Psychoanalysis. He lives in Switzerland and is a Training and Supervising Analyst with ISAPZurich. He has a private practice in Zurich.
Luis Moris is a Jungian analyst and Swiss licensed psychotherapist with a practice in Zurich, where he lives. He is a graduate from the International School of Analytical Psychology, Zurich (ISAPZurich). He is currently doing a Ph.D. titled "Post-Mortal Phenomena, C. G. Jung and his Psychology", at Essex University with Professor Roderick Main. He is the founder of Blue Salamandra Films ( www.bluesalamandra.com ), a film production house dedicated to creating films related to analytical psychology. He has produced and directed several films/interviews with prominent Jungian analysts.
Keith Hiatt is a human rights lawyer and technologist. He leads the Human Rights Program at Benetech, a Silicon Valley nonprofit based in Silicon Valley. He is also a lecturer and research fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches Human Rights and Technology. Keith works at the intersection of technology, law, and human rights. For the past three years, he has administered the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. At present, he is also a specialist and consultant to the United Nations, where he is assisting a startup team to form an independent mechanism to assist in investigating and prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed in Syria. Keith is also on the Board of Trustees of Bellingcat, an organization dedicated to the investigation of human rights violations, international crimes, and public corruption, with a special focus on Russia, Ukraine, and Syria. He is also on the Board of Directors of United4Iran, a nonprofit working to bolster civil society in Iran. Before attending law school at UC Berkeley, Keith was a software engineer at Boeing and Microsoft.
