Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Roland Rust, as astute a film critic as he is festival director, hit the nail right on the head when he chose Russian cinema as the focus of the 13th Cottbus Festival of East European Films, scheduled 4-8 November 2003. All three of the competition awards for feature films went to Russian directors, in addition to a special prize in the short film competition. And both the FIPRESCI (International Critics) and the Ecumenical Juries doubled up on the same opinions of the International Jury...
On the occasion of the church reception in Cottbus 2003, Hans Werner Dannowski, INTERFILM's Honorary President, talks about the development of the relationship between church and film in Germany
Ron Holloway reports on a film seminar organised by INTERFILM, WACC and SIGNIS in Iasi, Romania, with the support of the Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina. The event took place as part of the series "Europa eine Seele geben - Giving a Soul to Europe".
Robin Gurney reports on the 2nd International Content Summit at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival focussing on the topic "Film, Values, and Society".
The 6th European John Templeton Film Prize went to ‘The Man Without a Past’ by Aki Kaurismäki. The film tells the story of a man who survives a brutal act of violence and starts a new life. It was awarded the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Cannes in 2002.
Some highly plausible reasons were given by the organizer of the 24th Moscow International Film Festival (21-30 June, 2002) for scaling down the budget to approximately half of last year's 3 million rubles. Since a blowout festival is planned for the 25th anniversary in 2003, the 24th outing was stylized as a modest showcase of better things to come.
Dossier
The lists in this dossier summarize the church film awards of past years.