Current issues
White Angel - The End of Marinka (Arndt Ginzel, Germany 2023; © DOK Leipzig)
The Documentary Segment of the Festival. Report by Bojidar Manov, Member of the Interreligious Jury
66 editions of a major international festival of non-fiction films (documentaries and animations) is in itself a sign of significant attention. Leipzig has long established and defended its name as an important centre for world cinema of the two types mentioned, and this holds true especially strongly for the documentary production.
Jury member Sofia Sjö reflects upon the similarities and differences of Nordic films by considering the competition entries of this year's Nordic Film Days.
In his speech at the Ecumenical Reception on the occasion of the FilmFestival Cottbus on November 6, 2014, Rev. Hans Hodel, INTERFILM's jury coordinator and former president, outlines the church positions towards homosexuality, subject matter of the festival's FOCUS section "queerEast".
Jury member Radovan Holub reports about chikdren as heroes in films of the Molodist festival 2014
On the background of a rewarding experience jury member Tomas Axelson highlights three outstanding films of the Venice festival programme 2014
Criterion offers a new DVD/Blue-Ray release of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" (Angst essen Seele auf). The film was the first film awarded by an Ecumenical Jury in Cannes, which was established in 1974.
Report about the workshop of the Ecumenical Jury in Miskolc 2014 on the church festival commitment
Anita Nipah, member of the INTERFILM jury Venice 2014, writes on Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about the victims of a political crime on the Philippines in the sixties of the past century.
Jury member Kristine Greenaway comments on the jury decisions
