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11/2024
"Bound in Heaven" by Xin Huo from China received the €2,500 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2024. The festival's International Newcomer Award for Best Director went to "Manas" by Marianna Bernhard.
11/2024
"When the Light Breaks" by Rúnar Rúnarsson from Iceland has won the INTERFILM Church Film Prize in Lübeck 2024. The festival's main prize, the NDR Film Prize, went to the Danish film "My Eternal Summer" by Sylvia le Fanu. Finnish actress Kati Outinen received the festival's prize of honour.
11/2024
The Ecumenical Jury in Cottbus 2024 awarded its prize to the film "Dobra djeca" (Good Children) by Filip Peruzovi?. The festival's main prize for Best Feature Film went to "Kada je zazvonio telefon" (When the Phone Rang) by Iva Radivojevi?.
10/2024
"L'oubli tue deux fois" (Twice into Oblivion) by Pierre Jean Michel won the prize of the Interreligious Jury in Leipzig 2024. The film also received the Silver Dove in the International Competition for Long Documentaries. The Golden Dove in the same competition went to "Le Cinquième plan de La Jetée" (La Jetée, the Fifth Shot, France 2024) by Dominique Cabrera.
10/2024
"Bitter Gold" by Juan Francisco Olea from Chile won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Warsaw 2024. The Grand Prix of the festival went to "Traffic" by Teodora Ana Mihai from Romania.
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The Protestant Film Jury in Germany has chosen the Italian film "C'e ancora domani" (Tomorrow is another day) by Paola Cortellesi as FILM OF THE YEAR 2024.
An interfaith film jury, including an INTERFILM representative for the first time, awarded the Faith in Film Award 2025 to François Ozon's "When Fall Is Coming".
At the Oulu's Children's and Youth International Film Festival 2024 the Church Media Foundation presented its "Look at Me..." Award to Nellie Rajala for her film "The Elf Ring".
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From 1998 to 2007, INTERFILM awarded the European John Templeton Film Award on behalf of the Templeton Foundation. The awarded film was chosen from European films of the previous year that had been honoured by a church film organisation.
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