"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.
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
Australian film Critic and former OCIC and SIGNIS president Peter Malone comments on the awards of the Ecumenical Juries in Cannes of the past 15 years
In 1974 an Ecumenical Jury met in Cannes for the first time. It awarded Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Fear Eats the Soul”. This year, forty years later, the jury celebrates its anniversary by giving a Special Award to the Brothers Dardenne.
Dossier
The lists in this dossier summarize the church film awards of past years.