THE SHORT FILM “MASKS OFF ” AWARDED THE MERCURIUS PRIZE IN ZURICH”

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Israeli and Palestinians Teens meet in a theater project by Angelica Edna Calo Livne

On Monday 25 August 2025, in the beautiful venue of the prestigious XXIII International Congress of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, the short film “Masks Off”, directed by Matteo Bini, was awarded the Mercurius Prize.
The documentary film is about a theater project in Northern Israel that brings together young people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds: Jewish, Christian and Muslim teenagers become, through theater and dance, ambassadors of peace and of possible coexistence, despite the ongoing conflict.
At the heart of this project is one woman, a true catalyst for peace: Angelica Edna Calò Livne. An educator, international lecturer and author, Angelica Edna Calo Livne nominated for both the Sakharov Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

As Chiara Tozzi, Artistic Director of the Mercurius Prize, highlighted during the award ceremony “Angelica Edna Calo Livne’s work is only apparently utopian. In fact, instead of focusing on the problems and tragedies dividing Palestinian and Jewish young people, Angelica gives them a voice and allows them to face their conflicts and to express their stories and hope for a change. She fights to achieve a different way of being in the world, through the coexistence of people who are usually enemies. Her courageous project can be compared to the “transcendent function” in Jungian psychology — a process of mediating between opposite tendencies in order to create a “uniting symbol” that enables the transition to a new psychological attitude.”
In the presence of several committee members, the Mercurius Prize President Murray Stein presented the award to Angelica Edna Calo Livne, who then engaged in a lively and moving Question & Answers session with the audience.