Welcome to INTERFILM, the International Interchurch Film Organisation. INTERFILM links cinema and church, cultures and religions. INTERFILM is looking beyond the screen.
11/2025
The Ecumenical Jury in Mannheim-Heidelberg 2025 awarded its Prize to "Garaq" (Sink) by Zain Duraie from Jordan. The International Newcomer Award of the festival went to "Nighttime Sounds" directed by Zhongzhen Zhang from China.
11/2025
The INTERFILM Jury at the Nordic Film Days in Luebeck 2025 awarded the Church Film Prize, endowed with €5,000, to ‘Renovacija’ by Gabrielė Urbonaitė from Lithuania. The NDR Film Prize went to the Danish production ‘Second Victims’ by Zinnini Elkington.
11/2025
The Ecumenical Jury in Cottbus 2025 awarded its Prize to the Hungarian feature film ‘Pipás’ (Mayflies) by Emília Goldberg. The festival's main prize went to ‘Lijepa večer, lijep dan’ (Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day) by Ivona Juka.
10/2025
The Prize of the Interreligious Jury at DOK Leipzig 2025 went to ‘The Thing to Be Done’ by Srđan Kovačević. The winner of the Golden Dove was ‘Peacemaker’ by Ilja Ramljak.
10/2025
The 2025 Warsaw International Film Festival will open on 14 October with Jan Komasa's ‘Anniversary’. The Ecumenical Jury will award prizes for the films in the International Competition.
News
"Defiant" by director Visa Koiso-Kanttila wins the Prize of the Church Media Foundation in Finland at the International Chidren's and Youth Festival in Oulu 2025.
The Hof Film Festival is now in its 58th year and has become a hallmark of the city, which is why Hof likes to call itself the “Home of Films,” a phrase that is said to have originated with Wim Wenders. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Munich film scene came to Hof (...). As a nostalgic reminder, this year there was a 35mm screening of Fassbinder's early work “Gods of the Plague”. Peter Paul Huth reports about the festival.
Mit einem jungen neuen Team unter der Leitung von Joanna Szymańska-Szcześniak und dem Programmdirektor Bartłomiej Pulcyn startete das Warschauer Filmfestival bei seiner 41. Ausgabe in gleich acht verschiedenen Spielstätten., so Holger Twele, Miglied der Ökumenischen Jury in Warschau 2025, in seinem Bericht.
Dossier
The lists in this dossier summarize the church film awards of past years.
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List of awards given by juries appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS or INTERFILM alone (international festival awards) or by other church institutions (national awards).
Veranstaltungen
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2