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Journalist
Country of origin
Italy

Gaëlle Courtens is a journalist specialising in religious matters. As News Editor of the Swiss monthly “Voce evangelica” and as radio reporter for the religious programs of the Italian speaking Swiss Public Broadcaster RSI, her main topics are: ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, religious freedom, secularity, religion and politics, migrations, human rights. Before that she served as Press Officer of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy for many years. She holds a master degree in Italian Language and Literature, Sociology, Political Science at the University of Zurich (CH).

Festivals

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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