Church Film Awards 2016

Church Film Awards 2016 (chronological)

Festival Awards

Saarbrücken

37th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2016

Prize of the 2nd Ecumenical Jury

Der Nachtmahr / The Nightmare, by AKIZ, Germany 2015

Berlin

66th International Film Festival 2016

Ecumenical Award to a film in the official competition

Fuocoammare / Fire at Sea

by Gianfranco Rosi, Italy France 2015

Ecumenical Award in the Panorama Section to the film

Les premiers, les derniers / The First, The Last

by Bouli Lanners, Belgium/France 2016

Ecumenical Awards at the 46th Forum ex aequo to the films

Les sauteurs /Those Who Jump

by Abou Bakar Sidibé. Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert, Denmark 2016

and

Barakah yoqabil Barakah / Barakah Meets Barakah

by Mahmoud Sabbagh, Saudi Arabia 2016

Fribourg

30ème Festival International de Films 2016

Prix du Jury Œcuménique

Alias Maria

by José Luis Rugeles, Colombia/Argentina/France 2015+B54

Nyon

17th Visions du Réel 2016 │ 47e Festival international du cinema

Award of the Interreligious Jury

Bref manuel de liberation

by Alexander Kuznetsov, France 2016

Commendations

Looking Like My Mother

by Dominique Margot, Switzerland 2016

and

Il respire encore

by Anca Hirte, France 2016

Oberhausen

62nd International Short Film Days / Kurzfilmtage 2016

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

489 Years

by Hayoun Kwon, France 2016

Cannes

69ème Festival International du Film 2016

43e Prix Œcuménique

Juste la fin du monde / It’s only the end of the world

by Xavier Dolan, Canada 2016

Commendations for two films in the official competition:

American Honey

by Andrea Arnold, USA 2016

and

I, Daniel Blake / Moi, Daniel Blake

by Ken Loach, United Kingdom 2016

Zlin

56th International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2016

Ecumenical Award to a film for Children

Abulele

by Jonathan Geva, Israel 2015

Commendation to a film for Youth

La Vie en Grand / Learn by Heart

by Mathieu Vadepied, France 2015

Karlovy Vary

51th International Film Festival 2016

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Le Confessioni │The Confessions│Die Bekenntnisse

by Roberto Andò, Italy/France 2016

Yerevan

13th Golden Apricot Festival 2016

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Immortal │ Mamiroo

by Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh, Iran 2015

Locarno

69th Festival del Film 2016

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Godless

by Ralitza Petrova, Bulgaria/Denmark/France 2016

Commendations

Mister Universo

by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, Austria/Italy 2016

Marija

by Michael Koch, Germany/Switzerland 2016

Venice

73rd Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2016

6th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue

White Sun / Seto Surya

by Deepak Rauniyar,  Nepal/USA/Qatar/ Netherlands 2015

Miskolc

13th Miskolc Jameson CineFest 2016 – 6th Ecumenical Award

6th Prize oft he Ecumenical Jury

Under sandet / Land of Mine / Unter dem Sand – Das Versprechen der Freiheit

by Martin Zandfliet, Denmark/Germany 2015

Chemnitz

21st International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2016

1st Ecumenical Award

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

by Taika Waititi, New Zealand 2016

Commendation:

Mister Frog / Meester Kikker

by Anna Van Den Heide, Belgium/Netherland 2016

Warsaw

3rd Warsaw Film Festival 2016 – 7th Ecumenical Award

Heartstone / Hjartasteinn

by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson, Iceland/Denmark 2016

Kyiv

46th Molodist International Film Festival

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Full-length Films)

Keeper

by Guillaume Senez, Belgium/France/Netherlands, 2016

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Short Films)

Ascensão

by Pedro Peralta, Portugal, 2016

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Student Films)

Esel / Carry On

by Rafael Haider, Austria, 2015

Leipzig

59th International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films

Prize of the 1st Interreligious Jury

Cahier africain

by Heidi Specogna. Germany, Switzerland, 2016

Luebeck

58th Nordic Film Days

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM-Jury

Rosemari / Framing Mom

by Sara Johnsen, Denmark, Germany, Norway, 2016

Cottbus

26th FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Tiszta szívvel / Kills On Wheels

by Attila Till, Hungary, 2016

Mannheim-Heidelberg

65th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Gnizdo Gorlytsi /The Nest of the Turtledove

by Taras Tkachenko, Italy, Ukraine, 2016

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

Dnevnik masinovodje / Train Driver's Diary

by Milos Radovic, Serbai, 2016

Additional Church Film Awards

Göteborg

39th International Film Festival

Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos"

Flickan som räddade mitt liv / The Girl Who Saved My Life

by Hogir Hirori, Sweden, 2016

Malmö

33rd International Children and Youth Film Festival

The Church of Sweden Youth Film Award

Microbe et Gasoil

Michel Gondry, France, 2015

Honourable Mention

Sonita

by  Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany, Switzerland, Iran, 2015

Nyborg

Film Prize of the Denish Church "Gabriel"

Louder Than Bombs

by Joachim Trier, Denmark, France, Norway, 2015

München

34. Filmfest München

31. One-Future-Prize of the Interfilm Academy, Munich

Eine unerhörte Frau

by Hans Steinbichler, Germany, 2016

Commendations of the Interfilm Academy

Die Reise mit Vater

by Anca M. Lăzărescu, Germany, Romania, Sweden, Hungary, 2016

and

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

by Werner Herzog, USA, 2016

Ehrenpreis

Prof. Heiner Stadler

Oulu

35th International Children's and Youth Film Festival

Look at Me Award of the Church Media Foundation

Tyttö nimeltä Varpu / Little Wing

by Selma Vilhunen, Finland, Denmark, 2016

Frankfurt

FILM DES JAHRES der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit

Toni Erdmann

by Maren Ade, Germany, 2016

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