Church Film Awards 2017

                             Church Festival Awards 2017

Saarbrücken

38th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2017

Award of the 3rd Ecumenical Jury

Vanatoare, by Alexandra Balteanu, Germany 2016

Berlin

67th International Film Festival 2017

Ecumenical Award to a film in the International Competition

Teströl és léléköl / On Body and Soul

by Ildikó Enyedi, Hungary 2017

Ecumenical Award in the Panorama Section

Tahqiq fel djenna /Investigating Paradise

by Merzak Allouache, France, Algeria 2017

Ecumenical Award at the 47th Forum

Maman Colonelle

by Diedo Hamadi, France, Congo, Netherlands, USA, 2017

Commendation for a film in the International Competition

Una mujer fantástica / A Fantastic Woman

by Sebastián Lelio, Chile, USA, Germany, Spain 2017

Commendation for a film in the Panorama

I Am Not Your Negro

by Raoul Peck, France, USA, Belgium, Switzerland 2016

Commendation for a film in the Forum

El mar la mar

by Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki, USA 2017

Fribourg

31ère Festival International de Films 2017

Prix du Jury Œcuménique

Seto Surya / White Sun

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

Nyon

18th Visions du Réel 2017 │ 48e Festival international du cinema

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

Los ojos de la mar / The Gaze of the Sea

by José Álvarez, Mexico 2017

Commendation for the film

No Place for Tears

by Rejan Tuvi, Turkey 2017

Oberhausen

63rd International Short Film Days / 63. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2017

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Seeds

by Philippa Ndisi-Hermann, Kenya 2016

Commendations

The Separate System

by Katie Davis, Great Britain 2017

and

Gos leat don? / Where Are You?

by Egil Pedersen, Norway 2017

Cannes

70ème Festival de Cannes 2017 - 44e Prix Œcuménique

Hikari /Radiance

by Naomi Kawase. Japan, France, 2017

Zlin

57th International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2017

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Half Ticket

by Samit Kakkad, India 2016

Commendation

Railway Children

by Prithvi Konanur, India 2016

Karlovy Vary

51th International Film Festival 2017 - Ecumenical Award

The Cakemaker

by Ofir Raul Graizer, Israel, Germany 2017

Locarno

70th Festival del Film 2017

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Lucky

by John Caroll Lynch, USA 2017

Commendations

Vinterbrødre / Winter Brothers  

by Hlynur Palmason, Denmark, Iceland 2017

and

Qing ting zhi yan / Dragonfly Eyes

by Xu Bing, Cina, USA 2017

Venice

74th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2017

7th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue

Los versos del olvido / Oblivion Verses

by Alireza Khatami, France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile 2017

Miskolc

14th Miskolc Jameson CineFest 2017

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Aritmija / Arrythmia

by Boris Khlebnikov, Russia, Finland, Germany 2017

Chemnitz

22nd International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2017

2nd Ecumenical Award

Sobre rodas / On Wheels

by Mauro d'Addio, Brasil 2017

Commendation:

Zuckersand / Sugar Sand

by Dirk Kummer, Germany 2017

Warsaw

33rd Warsaw Film Festival 2017

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Beyond Words

by Urszula Antoniak, Netherlands, Poland 2017

Commendation

Rudar / The Miner

by Hanna Slak, Romania, Slovenia 2017

Leipzig

60th International Leipzig Festival  for Documentary and Animated Film

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

Liefde is aardappelen / Life is Potatoes

by Aliona van der Horst, Netherlands 2017

Lübeck

59th Nordic Film Days Luebeck

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury

Verdwijnen / Disappearance

by Boudewijn Koole, Netherlands, Norway, 2017

Commendation

Rett vest / Going West

by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, Norway, 2017

Cottbus

27th FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Dzikie róze / Wild Roses

by Anna Jadowska, Poland, 2017

Mannheim-Heidelberg

66th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Une vie ailleurs / Life Beyond Me

by Olivier Peyon, France, Uruguay, 2017

Commendation

Oralman / Returnee

by Sabit Kurmanbekov, Kazakhstan, 2017

                              Additional Church Film Awards

Göteborg

40th International Film Festival Göteborg

Swedish Church Film Prize – Angelos Award

Dröm vidare / Beyond Dreams

by Rojda Sekerzös, Sweden 2017

Tampere

47th Tampere Film Festival

Church Media Foundation Prize

Kiehumispiste /Boiling Point

by Elina Hirvonen, Finland 2017

Malmö

34th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö

Church of Sweden Youth Film Award

Hjartasteinn / Heartstone

by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, Denmark, Iceland, 2016

Nyborg

15th Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2017

Der kommer en dag /The Day Will Come

by Jesper W. Nielsen, Denmark, 2017

München

35. Filmfest München

32. One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München

Cuori puri / Pure Hearts

by Roberto de Paolis, Italy 2017

Ehrenpreis

Artur Brauner, Produzent

Oulu

36th International Children and Youth Film Festival

Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award

Kukista ja mehiläisistä / Abouth the Birds and the Bees

by J.J. Vanhanen, Finland 2016

N.P.

WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2016

Cahier africain

by Heidi Specogna, Switzerland, Germany, 2016