Current issues

16.11.2024
Greetings by Festival Director Sascha Keilholz
Sascha Keilholz, director of the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, in his greetings at the Ecumenical Reception reflects the actual political challenges after the US elections and the threats to democracy.
17.11.2014
Jean Collet, Michel Cazenave: "Petite théologie du cinéma". Eine Buchvorstellung von Alain le Goanvic, Präsident der Ökumenischen Jury Mannheim 2014
12.11.2014
Jury member Sofia Sjö reflects upon the similarities and differences of Nordic films by considering the competition entries of this year's Nordic Film Days.
07.11.2014
In his speech at the Ecumenical Reception on the occasion of the FilmFestival Cottbus on November 6, 2014, Rev. Hans Hodel, INTERFILM's jury coordinator and former president, outlines the church positions towards homosexuality, subject matter of the festival's FOCUS section "queerEast".
05.11.2014
Jury member Radovan Holub reports about chikdren as heroes in films of the Molodist festival 2014
07.10.2014
On the background of a rewarding experience jury member Tomas Axelson highlights three outstanding films of the Venice festival programme 2014
02.10.2014
Criterion offers a new DVD/Blue-Ray release of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" (Angst essen Seele auf). The film was the first film awarded by an Ecumenical Jury in Cannes, which was established in 1974.
22.09.2014
Report about the workshop of the Ecumenical Jury in Miskolc 2014 on the church festival commitment
20.09.2014
Anita Nipah, member of the INTERFILM jury Venice 2014, writes on Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about the victims of a political crime on the Philippines in the sixties of the past century.