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Warsaw
"The Man with Hare Ears" by Czech director Martin Šulik ist the winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury inb Warsaw 2020. The Warsaw Grand Prix went to "18 Kilohertz" by Farkhat Sharipov from Kazakhstan.
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Zlín
The 60th International Film Festival for Children and Young People, which is regularly scheduled for the end of May, has been postponed to September and took place live. The three-member ecumenical jury also worked on site.
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Venice
As the first of the major film festivals following the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, the 77th Venice Film Festival, the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, took place entirely in the cinemas, on the Lido and in other venues.
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Kyiv
The Ecumenical Online Jury in Kiev 2020 awarded prizes in the International Competition for Long Feature Films, the International Competition for Short Films and the International Competition for Student Films . "Identifying Features" by Fernanda Valdez from Mexico and "Kuessipan" by Myriam Verrault (Canada) won the festival's Grand Prix.
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Locarno
Under the motto: "For the Future of Films" the Locarno 2020 Film Festival took place partly on site, partly online.
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Oberhausen
Due to the corona crisis, the 66th International Short Film Festival is taking place online. With a festival pass for € 9.99, over 350 films are accessible.
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Nyon
The festival Visions du Réel 2020 in Nyon will take place in an online version due to the Corona Pandemic.
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Fribourg
Due to the corona epidemic, the 34th Festival International de Films de Friborg had to be canceled. Instead, the festival organized a virtual edition.
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Berlin
The Ecumenical Jury awarded its Prize in the International Competition to "There Is No Evil" by Mohammad Rasoulof, which also won the Golden Bear.
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Saarbruecken
The film "Jiyan" by Süheyla Schwenk won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 41st Max Ophüls Award. The festival jury awarded its prizes for the best feature film to "Neubau" by Johannes Maria Schmit.
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Mannheim and Heidelberg
The Iranian feature film "Rona, Azim's Mother" by Jamshid Mahmoudi won the € 2,500 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the IFF Mannheim-Heidelberg 2019, the last festival under the direction of Michael Kötz.
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Cottbus
A film from Bosnia and Herzegovina won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the FilmFestival Cottbus 2019: "Full Moon" by Nermin Hamsagi?. The Bulgarian film "Sestra" (Sister) by Svetla Tsotsorkov won a Lubina as Best Film of the Festival.
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Luebeck
The Icelandic film "Bergmál" (Echo) by Rúnar Rúnarsson won the Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury in Lübeck in 2019. The main prize of the festival went to a film from Iceland as well.
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Leipzig
The winner of the festival DOK Leipzig 2019 is the film "Exemplary Behaviour" from Lithuania. He received the Golden Dove, the Prize of the Interreligious Jury and the Prize of the Jury of International Film Critics.
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Miskolc
The Iranian film "Tehran: City of Love" won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Miskolc in 2019. The Emeric Pressburger Prize for Best Picture went to the Latin American production "Monos".
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Venice
"Bik eneich - Un fils" (A Son) is the winner of the 9th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue in Venice 2019. The Golden Lion was awarded to "Joker" by Todd Philips.
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Locarno
The Ecumenical Jury in Locarno 2019 awarded its prize to "Maternal" by Maura Delpero. The Golden Leopard went to "Vitalina Valera" by Pedro Costa.
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Karlovy Vary
"Lara", directed by Jan-Ole Gerster, won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Karlovy Vary 2019. The Crystal Globe, the main prize of the festival, was awarded to "The Father" by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov from Bulgaria.
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Kyiv
The Ecumenical Jury at the Molodist Film Festival in Kiev in 2019 awarded three prizes. Their choices for Best Feature-Length Film was "Systemsprenger" by Nora Fingscheidt (Germany 2019), ...
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Zlín
"Psychobitch" by Martin Lund (Norway) has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Zlín 2019. The jury awarded a Commendation to "Rocca Changes the World" by Katja Benrath (Germany), with three other awards the most successful film of the festival.
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Cannes
"A Hidden Life" by Terrence Malick has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes 2019. The Golden Palm went to "Parasite" by South Korean film director Bong Joon-Ho.
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Oberhausen
The Ecumenical Jury has awarded its 1500 € prize to the dance film "NoirBLUE" by Ana Pi. The Grand Prix of the City of Oberhausen went to "I Got My Things and Left" by Philbert Aimé Mbubazi Sharangabo.
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Nyon
With the motto "50 years of freedom, 50 years of openness, 50 years of film", the Festival Visions du Réel celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2019.
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Fribourg
"Compañeros - La noche de 12 años" (A Twelve Years Long Night) by Álvaro Brechner from Uruguay won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Friborg in 2019. The Grand Prix of the festival went to "The Good Girls"
by Alejandra Márquez Abella from Mexico.
by Alejandra Márquez Abella from Mexico.
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Berlin
"God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya" is the winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in the International Competition. The jury awarded prizes in the Panorama and the Forum as well.
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Saarbruecken
The Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize, dedicated to young German speaking cinema, in 2019 celebrated its 40th anniversary. The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury was won by the film "The Melancholy Girl" by Susanne Heinrich.
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Mannheim and Heidelberg
The Iranian film "Orange Days" won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 67th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg.
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Cottbus
"Ayka" by Sergei Dvortsevoj won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 28th Film Festival Cottbus 2018. The film by the Kazakh director also received the main prize of the festival.
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The Hof Film Festival is now in its 58th year and has become a hallmark of the city, which is why Hof likes to call itself the “Home of Films,” a phrase that is said to have originated with Wim Wenders. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Munich film scene came to Hof (...). As a nostalgic reminder, this year there was a 35mm screening of Fassbinder's early work “Gods of the Plague”. Peter Paul Huth reports about the festival.