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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 Peruzović. The festival's main prize for Best Feature Film went to "Kada je zazvonio telefon" (When the Phone Rang) by Iva Radivojević.
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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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".
Sascha Keilholz, director of the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, in his greetings at the Ecumenical Reception reflects the actual political challenges after the US elections and the threats to democracy.
Australian INTERFILM member Eloise Scherer reflects on the themes of faith, culture, and the human experience in a number of festival films.
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On a national level, church film prizes are awarded regularly without INTERFILM being involved directly. These awards are documented here.
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11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2
26.04.2023
Budapest
In Budapest at the end of April 2023 INTERFILM is organising a seminar on the history of Hungarian film and the current situation in Central and Eastern Europe.