The award-winning film "Every Face Has a Name" is about survivors of the concentration camps who arrived in Sweden in 1945.
As best film of the year 2015, the Protestant Film Jury in Germany has awarded the Iranian winner of the Berlinale, "Taxi Teheran" by Jafar Panahi.
Milja Radovic and Alyda Faber, jury members, review films of Locarno 2014
The Evangelical Film Jury in Germany has chosen the FILM OF THE YEAR: "Boyhood", directed by Richard Linklater. The film will be released on Blue-ray and DVD for American viewers on January 6, 2015.
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.
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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.