Church Film Awards 2021

                     
                          Church Film Awards 2021 (chronological)

   

The following list registers awards in two categories: "Festival Awards" refers to awards given by ecumenical or interreligious juries appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, or by an INTERFILM jury. "Additional Church Film Awards" refers to awards made by juries supported by other organisations. Awards given by SIGNIS juries can be found at www.signis.net. The chronological list is followed by an alphabetical one. For detailed information please click either on the film titles in the column to the right, or on the festival places left.

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                               Church Festival Awards 2021

   
     

Saarbrücken

42nd Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2021

   

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Borga

   
 

by York-Fabian Raabe, Germany, Ghana, 2021

   
       

Berlin

71st International Film Festival 2021

   
 

no Ecumenical Jury

   
       

Fribourg

35e Festival International de Films 2021 – Prix du Jury Œcuménique

   
 

Asa ga kuru (True Mothers)

   
 

by Naomi Kawase, Japan, 2020

   
       

Nyon

52e Visions du Réel 2021, Festival international du cinema

   
 

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

   
 

Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege)

   
 

by Abdallah al-Khatib, Lebanon, France, Qatar, 2020

   
       

Oberhausen

67th International Short Film Days / 67. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2019

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition)

   
 

Zoom sur le cirque (Zoom on Circus)

   
 

by Dominique Margot, Switzerland, 2020

   
       
 

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition)

   
 

Home

   
 

by Ngima Gelu Sherpa, Nepal, 2020

   
       
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition)

   
 

Kalsubai

   
 

Yudhajit Basu, India, 2020

   
       
 

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition)

   
 

Cântec de leagăn (Cradle)

   
 

Paul Mureşan, Romania, 2020

   
       
 

Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition (14+)

   
 

Nova

   
 

Luca Meisters, Netherlands, 2020

   
       
 

Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition (8+)

   
 

Dalía

   
 

Brúsi Ólason, Iceland, 2020

   
       

Cannes

74e Festival de Cannes 2021 - 45e Prix Œcuménique

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Drive My Car

   
 

by Hamaguchi Ryosuke, Japan, 2021

   
       
 

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Hytty nro 6 (Compartment No. 6)

   
 

Juho Kuosmanen, Finland, Estonia, Germany, 2021

   
       

Zlin

61st International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Junior)

   
 

Beans

   
 

by Tracey Deer, Canada, 2020

   
       
 

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Youth)

   
 

Valentina

   
 

by Cássio Pereira dos Santos, Brasil, 2020

   
       

Kyiv

50th International Film Festival Kyiv Molodist, 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Full-Length Films)

   
 

After Love

   
 

by Aleem Khan, United Kingdom, 2020

   
       
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Short Films)

   
 

Into the Night

   
 

by Camila Tamabura, Poland, 2020

   
       
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Student Films)

   
 

Parole

   
 

by Vojtĕch Novotný, Czech Reüpublic, 2020

   
       

Karlovy Vary

55th International Film Festival 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Strahinja Banović

   
 

by Stefan Arsinjević, Serbia, France, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Lithuania, 2021

   
       
 

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Zbornica (The Staffroom)

   
 

by Sonja Tarokić, Croatia, 2021

   
       

Locarno

74th Festival del Film 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Soul of a Beast

   
 

by Lorenz Merz, Switzerland, 2021

   
       

Venice

78th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2021

   
 

10th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue

   
 

Amira

   
 

by Mohamed Diab, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, 2021

   
       

Miskolc

17th Cinefest Miskolc 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Mila (Apples)

   
 

by Christos Nikou, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, 2020

   
       

Chemnitz

26th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Mon cirque à moi (My Very Own Circus)

   
 

by Miryam Bouchard, Canada, 2020

   
       

Warsaw

37th Warsaw Film Festival 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Virgjëresha Shqiptare (Albanian Virgin)

   
 

by Bujar Alimani, Germany, Belgium, Albania, Kosovo

   
       
 

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Ringu wandaringu (Ring wandering)

   
 

by Masakazu Kaneko, Japan, 2021

   
       

Leipzig

64nd International Leipzig Festival  for Documentary and Animated Film 2021

   
 

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

   
 

Que Dieu te protège

   
 

by Cléo Cohen, France, 2021

   
       

Lübeck

63rd Nordic Film Days Luebeck 2021

   
 

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury

   
 

The Gravedigger's Wife

   
 

by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, Finland, France, Germany, 2021

   
       
 

Commendation of the INTERFILM Jury

   
 

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

   
 

by Teemu Nikki, Finland, 2021

   
       

Cottbus

31st FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Brighton 4th

   
 

by Levan Koguashvili, Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, 2021

   
       

Mannheim-Heidelberg

70th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2021

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Ma nuit (My Night)

   
 

by Antoinette Boulat, France, Belgium, 2021

   
       

                            Additional Church Film Awards

   
       

Tromsø

31st Tromsø Internsational Film Festival 2021 (digital)

   
 

Faith in Film Award

   
 

Pugalo (Scarecrow)

   
 

by Dmitry Davydov, Russia, 2020

   
       

Göteborg

44th International Film Festival Göteborg 2021

   
 

Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos"

   
 

Sweat

   
 

by Magnus von Horn, Sweden, Poland, 2020

   
       

Tampere

50th Tampere Film Festival 2021

   
 

Church Media Foundation Prize

   
 

Eatnameamet – Min jaskes dáistaleapmi (Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle)

   
 

by Suvi West, Finland, 2021

   
       

Malmö

38th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö

   
 

Church of Sweden Youth Film Award

   
 

Gagarine

   
 

by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh, France, 2020

   
       

Berlin

17. Festival achtung berlin - new berlin film award

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

When a Farm Goes Aflame

   

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by Jide Tom Akinleminu, Germany, 2021

   
       

Nyborg

19th Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2021

   
 

Håp (Hope)

   
 

Maria Sødahl, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 2019

   
       

München

39. Filmfest München 2021

   
 

One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München

   
 

Nahschuss

   
 

by Franziska Stündel, Germany, 2021

   
       
 

Ehrenpreis

   
 

Rob Houwer, Producer

   
       

Amsterdam

11th World Cinema Amsterdam 2021

   
 

2nd World Cinema Exchange Award

   
 

The Man Who Sold his Skin

   
 

by Kaouther ben Hania, Tunisia, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, 2020

   
       

Haugesund

49th Norwegian International Film Festival

   
 

Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches

   
 

The Man Who Sold His Skin

   
 

by Kaouther ben Hania, Tunisia, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, 2020

   
       

Biel/Bienne

17e Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie

   
 

Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse

   
 

A Good Man

   
 

by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, France, 2020

   
       

Oulu

40th International Children and Youth Film Festival

   
 

Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award

   
 

Pertsa & Kilu (Finders of the Lost Yacht)

   
 

by Taavi Vartia, Finland, 2021

   
       

Zürich

17th Zurich Film Festival

   
 

Ökumenischer Filmpreis der Zürcher Kirchen

   
 

La mif (The Fam)

   
 

by Fred Bailiff, Switzerland, 2021

   
       

Munich

40. Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen

   
 

Prix Interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie

   
 

Topless

   
 

by Hannah Jandl, Germany, 2020

   
       

Tallinn

25th Black Nights Film Festival

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia

   
 

Mukagali

   
 

by Bolat Kalymbetov, Kazakhstan, 2021

   
       

Budapest

24th Faludi Film Festival and Photo Competition

   
 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Free Flow

   
 

by Sâm Mirhosseini, France, 2020

   
       
 

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

   
 

Brîndarim

   
 

by Orkan Bayram, Germany, 2020

   
       

N.P.

WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2020

   
 

Silencio Radio (Radio Silence)

   
 

by Juliana Fanjul, Mexico, Switzerland, 2019

   
       

Frankfurt

FILM DES JAHRES 2021 der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit

   
 

Kabul, City in the Wind

   
 

by Aboozar Amini, The Netherlands, 2018

   

 

 

   

                            Church Film Awards 2021 (alphabetical)

   
     

Title

Director

Award

 

 

Borga

York-Fabian Raabe

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Saarbruecken, 2021

 

Asa ga kuru (True Mothers)

Naomi Kawase

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Fribourg 2021

 

Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege)

Abdallah al-Khatib

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2021

 

Home

Ngima Gelu Sherpa

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2021 (Int. Competition)

 

Zoom sur le cirque (Zoom on Circus

Dominique Margot

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2021 (Int. Competition)

 

Dalía

Brúsi Ólason

Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition (8+), Oberhausen, 2021

 

Nova

Luca Meisters

Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition (14+), Oberhausen, 2021

 

Kalsubai

Yudhajit Basu

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition), Oberhausen, 2021

 

Cântec de leagăn (Cradle)

Paul Mureşan

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition), Oberhausen, 2021

 

Drive My Car

Hamaguchi Ryonosuke

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2021

 

Hytty nro 6 (Compartment No. 6)

Juho Kuosmanen

Comendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2021

 

Beans

Tracey Deer

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, International Comp. For Feature Films (Category Junior), Zlín, 2021

 

Valentina

Cássio Pereira dos Santos

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Youth), Zlín, 2021

 

After Love

Aleem Khan

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Full-Length Films), Kyiv, 2021

 

Into the Night

Camila Tamabura

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Short Films), Kyiv, 2021

 

Parole

Vojtěch Novotný

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Student Films), Kyiv, 2021

 

Strahinja Banović

Stefan Arsinjević

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2021

 

Zbornica (The Staffroom)

Sonja Tarokić

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlpovy Vary, 2021

 

Soul of the Beast

Lorenz Merz

Prize of the Ecu,menical Jury, Locarno, 2021

 

Amira

Mohamed Diab

10th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue, Venice, 2021

 

Mila (Apples)

Christos Nikou

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Miskolc, 2021

 

Mon cirque à moi (My Very Own Circus)

Miryam Bouchard

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Chemnitz, 2021

 

Virgjëresha Shqiptare (Albanian Virgin)

Bujar Alimani

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2021

 

Ringu wandaringu (Ring wandering)

Masakazu Kaneko

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2021

 

Que Dieu te protège

Cléo Cohen

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Leipzig, 2021

 

The Gravedigger's Wife

Khadar Ayderus Ahmed

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck 2021

 

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

Teemu Nikki

Commendation of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck, 2021

 

Brighton 4th

Leon Koguashvili

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cottbus, 2021

 

Ma nuit (My Night)

Antoinette Boulat

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2021

 

Pugalo (Scarecrow)

Dmitry Davydov

Faith in Film Award, Tromsø, 2021

 

Sweat

Magnus von Horn

Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos", Göteborg, 2021

 

Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle

Suvi West

Church Media Foundation Prize, Tampere, 2021

 

Gagarine

Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh

Church of Sweden Youth Film Award, Malmö, 2021

 

When a Farm Goes Aflame

Jide Tom Akindemu

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, achtung berlin 2021

 

Håp (Hope)

Maria Sødahl

Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2021

 

Nahschuss

Franziska Stündel

One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München, 2021

 

The Man Who Sold his Skin

Kaouther ben Hania

2nd World Cinema Exchange Award, Amsterdam, 2021

 

The Man Who Sold His Skin

Kaouther ben Hania

Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches, Haugesund, 2021

 

A Good Man

Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse, Biel/Bienne, 2021

 

Pertsa & Kilu (Finders of the Lost Yacht)

Taavi Vartia

Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award, Oulu, 2021

 

La mif (The Fam)

Fred Bailiff

Ökumenischer Filmpreis der Zürcher Kirchen, Zürich 2021

 

Topless

Hannah Jandl

Prix Interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie, München 2021

 

Mukagali

Bolat Kalymbetov

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia, Tallinn, 2021

 

Free Flow

Sâm Mirhosseini

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Budapest, 2021

 

Brîndarim

Orkan Byram

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Budapest, 2021

 

Silencio Radio (Radio Silence)

Juliana Faniul

WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2020

 

Kabul, City in the Wind

Aboozar Amini

FILM DES JAHRES 2021 der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit, Frankfurt