Church Film Awards 2021

Mon cique à moi (Miryam Bouchard, © internationales filmfestival SCHLINGEL)

Church Film Awards 2021 (chronological)

The following list registers awards in two categories: "Festival Awards" refers to awards given by ecumenical or interreligious juries appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, or by an INTERFILM jury. "Additional Church Film Awards" refers to awards made by juries supported by other organisations. Awards given by SIGNIS juries can be found at www.signis.net. The chronological list is followed by an alphabetical one. For detailed information please click either on the film titles in the column to the right, or on the festival places left.

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Church Festival Awards 2021

Saarbrücken

42nd Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Borga

by York-Fabian Raabe, Germany, Ghana, 2021

Berlin

71st International Film Festival 2021

no Ecumenical Jury

Fribourg

35e Festival International de Films 2021 – Prix du Jury Œcuménique

Asa ga kuru (True Mothers)

by Naomi Kawase, Japan, 2020

Nyon

52e Visions du Réel 2021, Festival international du cinema

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege)

by Abdallah al-Khatib, Lebanon, France, Qatar, 2020

Oberhausen

67th International Short Film Days / 67. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2019

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition)

Zoom sur le cirque (Zoom on Circus)

by Dominique Margot, Switzerland, 2020

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition)

Home

by Ngima Gelu Sherpa, Nepal, 2020

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition)

Kalsubai

Yudhajit Basu, India, 2020

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition)

Cântec de leagăn (Cradle)

Paul Mureşan, Romania, 2020

Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition (14+)

Nova

Luca Meisters, Netherlands, 2020

Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition (8+)

Dalía

Brúsi Ólason, Iceland, 2020

Cannes

74e Festival de Cannes 2021 - 45e Prix Œcuménique

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Drive My Car

by Hamaguchi Ryosuke, Japan, 2021

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

Hytty nro 6 (Compartment No. 6)

Juho Kuosmanen, Finland, Estonia, Germany, 2021

Zlin

61st International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Junior)

Beans

by Tracey Deer, Canada, 2020

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Youth)

Valentina

by Cássio Pereira dos Santos, Brasil, 2020

Kyiv

50th International Film Festival Kyiv Molodist, 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Full-Length Films)

After Love

by Aleem Khan, United Kingdom, 2020

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Short Films)

Into the Night

by Camila Tamabura, Poland, 2020

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Student Films)

Parole

by Vojtĕch Novotný, Czech Reüpublic, 2020

Karlovy Vary

55th International Film Festival 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Strahinja Banović

by Stefan Arsinjević, Serbia, France, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Lithuania, 2021

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

Zbornica (The Staffroom)

by Sonja Tarokić, Croatia, 2021

Locarno

74th Festival del Film 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Soul of a Beast

by Lorenz Merz, Switzerland, 2021

Venice

78th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2021

10th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue

Amira

by Mohamed Diab, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, 2021

Miskolc

17th Cinefest Miskolc 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Mila (Apples)

by Christos Nikou, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, 2020

Chemnitz

26th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Mon cirque à moi (My Very Own Circus)

by Miryam Bouchard, Canada, 2020

Warsaw

37th Warsaw Film Festival 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Virgjëresha Shqiptare (Albanian Virgin)

by Bujar Alimani, Germany, Belgium, Albania, Kosovo

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

Ringu wandaringu (Ring wandering)

by Masakazu Kaneko, Japan, 2021

Leipzig

64nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2021

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

Que Dieu te protège

by Cléo Cohen, France, 2021

Lübeck

63rd Nordic Film Days Luebeck 2021

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury

The Gravedigger's Wife

by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, Finland, France, Germany, 2021

Commendation of the INTERFILM Jury

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

by Teemu Nikki, Finland, 2021

Cottbus

31st FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Brighton 4th

by Levan Koguashvili, Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, 2021

Mannheim-Heidelberg

70th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2021

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Ma nuit (My Night)

by Antoinette Boulat, France, Belgium, 2021

Additional Church Film Awards

Tromsø

31st Tromsø Internsational Film Festival 2021 (digital)

Faith in Film Award

Pugalo (Scarecrow)

by Dmitry Davydov, Russia, 2020

Göteborg

44th International Film Festival Göteborg 2021

Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos"

Sweat

by Magnus von Horn, Sweden, Poland, 2020

Tampere

50th Tampere Film Festival 2021

Church Media Foundation Prize

Eatnameamet – Min jaskes dáistaleapmi (Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle)

by Suvi West, Finland, 2021

Malmö

38th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö

Church of Sweden Youth Film Award

Gagarine

by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh, France, 2020

Berlin

17. Festival achtung berlin - new berlin film award

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

When a Farm Goes Aflame

by Jide Tom Akinleminu, Germany, 2021

Nyborg

19th Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2021

Håp (Hope)

Maria Sødahl, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 2019

München

39. Filmfest München 2021

One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München

Nahschuss

by Franziska Stündel, Germany, 2021

Ehrenpreis

Rob Houwer, Producer

Amsterdam

11th World Cinema Amsterdam 2021

2nd World Cinema Exchange Award

The Man Who Sold his Skin

by Kaouther ben Hania, Tunisia, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, 2020

Haugesund

49th Norwegian International Film Festival

Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches

The Man Who Sold His Skin

by Kaouther ben Hania, Tunisia, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, 2020

Biel/Bienne

17e Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie

Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse

A Good Man

by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, France, 2020

Oulu

40th International Children and Youth Film Festival

Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award

Pertsa & Kilu (Finders of the Lost Yacht)

by Taavi Vartia, Finland, 2021

Zürich

17th Zurich Film Festival

Ökumenischer Filmpreis der Zürcher Kirchen

La mif (The Fam)

by Fred Bailiff, Switzerland, 2021

Munich

40. Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen

Prix Interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie

Topless

by Hannah Jandl, Germany, 2020

Tallinn

25th Black Nights Film Festival

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia

Mukagali

by Bolat Kalymbetov, Kazakhstan, 2021

Budapest

24th Faludi Film Festival and Photo Competition

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Free Flow

by Sâm Mirhosseini, France, 2020

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury

Brîndarim

by Orkan Bayram, Germany, 2020

N.P.

WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2020

Silencio Radio (Radio Silence)

by Juliana Fanjul, Mexico, Switzerland, 2019

Frankfurt

FILM DES JAHRES 2021 der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit

Kabul, City in the Wind

by Aboozar Amini, The Netherlands, 2018