The Gemeinschaftswerk der Evangelischen Publizistik (GEP) - Joint Association for Evangelical Communication - is the central media corporation of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), its member churches, facilities, and institutions. It is a publishing house and offers online and print products as well as special services in the fields of media ethics and media education, public relations, radio, television and film. Concerning film, GEP  incorporates the monthly film magazin epd Film, the Film Cultural Centre including the FILM OF THE MONTH, the Evangelical Centre for Films Concerning Development Problems (EZEF), the production company Eikon and the distribution agency Matthias-Film. The Film Cultural Centre chaired by Christian Engels also hosts the INTERFILM Office.
 
GEP, Filmkulturelles Zentrum, Emil-von-Behring-Str. 3, 60394 Frankfurt/Main;
Postal adress: PB 500 550, 60439 Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
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Current issues

An interfaith film jury, including an INTERFILM representative for the first time, awarded the Faith in Film Award 2025 to François Ozon's "When Fall Is Coming".
At the Oulu's Children's and Youth International Film Festival 2024 the Church Media Foundation presented its "Look at Me..." Award to Nellie Rajala for her film "The Elf Ring".

Dossier

From 1998 to 2007, INTERFILM awarded the European John Templeton Film Award on behalf of the Templeton Foundation. The awarded film was chosen from European films of the previous year that had been honoured by a church film organisation.

Events

11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2
26.04.2023
Budapest
In Budapest at the end of April 2023 INTERFILM is organising a seminar on the history of Hungarian film and the current situation in Central and Eastern Europe.