Festivals

In 2007, an Ecumenical Jury attended the Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan for the first time, with the presidents of INTERFILM and SIGNIS, Hans Hodel and Peter Malone, as international members, and Father Gevork Saroyan, seminary lecturer (and later Bishop) of the Armenian Church, as local member.

The main award of the festival, the Crystal Globe, went to "Mýrin" (Jar City) an Icelandic-German coproduction directed by Baltasar Kormákur. The Ecumenical Jury awarded the Russian film "Prostye veš?i" (Simple Things) by Aleksej Popogrebskij which also won the FIPRESCI Prize.

In its 60th anniversary, the Golden Palm was awarded to a Romanian film for the first time: "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 3 Days" by Cristian Mungiu. The Ecumenical Jury choose Fatih Akin's "Edge of Heaven" (Auf der anderen Seite) as its winner.