The following list registers awards in two categories: "International Church Festival Awards" refers to awards given by ecumenical or interreligious juries appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, or by an INTERFILM jury. "National Church Film Awards" refers to national 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.

                     Church Film Awards 2022 (chronological)

 

                                     International Church Festival Awards 2022

 
     
Saarbrücken 42rd Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2022 – Award of the 8th Ecumenical Jury  
  Moneyboys  
  by C. B. Yi, Austria, France, Belgium, Taiwan, 2021  
     
Berlin 72nd International Film Festival 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Competition)  
  Un año, una noche (One Year, One Night)  
  by Isaki Lacuesta, Spain, France, 2021  
     
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Panorama)  
  Klondike  
  by Maryna Er Gorbach, Ukraine, Turkey, 2022  
     
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Forum)  
  Geographies of Solitude  
  by Jacquelyn Mills, Canada, 2022  
     
Fribourg 36e Festival International de Films 2022 – Prix du Jury Œcuménique   
  La Civil  
  by Teodora Ana Mihai, Belgium, Romania, Mexico, 2021  
     
Nyon 53e Visions du Réel 2022, Festival international du cinema  
  Prize of the Interreligious Jury  
  Ma vie en papier  
  by Vida Dena, Belgium, France, Iran, 2022  
     
Oberhausen  68th International Short Film Days / 68. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition)  
  Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely  
  by Panos Aphrahamiam, Lebanon, 2021  
     
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition)  
  73  
  by Meshy Koplevitch, Israel, 2021  
     
  Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition)  
  Blink in the Desert  
  by Shinobu Soejima, Japan, 2021   
     
  Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition  
  Titan  
  by Valéry Carnoy, Belgium, France, 2021  
     
Cannes 75e Festival de Cannes 2021 - 46e Prix Œcuménique  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Broker  
  by Hirokazu Kore-eda, South Korea, 2022  
     
Zlin  62nd International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Junior)  
  Coast  
  by Jessica Hester, Derek Schweickart, USA, 2022  
     
  Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Youth)  
  Bigman  
  by Camiel Schouwenaar, Netherlands, Germany, 2022  
     
Karlovy Vary  56th International Film Festival 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  A Provincial Hospital  
  by Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva, Bulgaria, Germany, 2022  
     
Locarno 75th Festival del Film 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Tales of the Purple House  
  by Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon, Iraq, France, 2022  
     
  Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Tengo sueños eléctricos  
  by Valentina Maurel, Belgium, France, Costa Rica, 2022  
     
Venice 79th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2022  
  11th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue   
  The Whale  
  by Darren Aronofsky, USA, 2022  
     
Miskolc 18th Cinefest Miskolc 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Il buco (The Hole)  
  by Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, France, Germany, 2021  
     
Chemnitz 27th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  La traversée (The Crossing)  
  by Florence Miailhe, France, Germany, Czech Republic, 2020  
     
  Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury   
  Rhino  
  by Arturo Castro Godoy, Argentina, 2021  
     
Warsaw 38th Warsaw Film Festival 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Tata (Dad)  
  by Anna Maliszewska, Poland, Ukraine, 2022  
     
Leipzig 65th International Leipzig Festival  for Documentary and Animated Film 2022  
  Prize of the Interreligious Jury  
  Une vie comme une autre  
  by Faustine Cros, Belgium, France, 2022  
     
Lübeck 64th Nordic Film Days Luebeck 2022  
  Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury  
  Boy From Heaven  
  by Tarik Saleh, Sweden, France, Finland, Morocco, Denmark, 2022  
     
  Commendation of the INTERFILM Jury  
  The Woodcutter Story  
  by Mikko Myllylahti, Finland, Netherlands, Germany, 2022  
     
Cottbus 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema 2022  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Minsk  
  by Boris Guts, Estonia, 2022  
     
  Commendation  of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Sermon to the Fish  
  by Hilal Baydarov, Azerbaïdjan, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey, 2022   
     
Mannheim-Heidelberg Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Valeria Is Getting Married  
  by Michal Vinik, Israel, Ukraine, 2022  
     
  Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Al-Sadd (The Dam)  
  by Ali Cherri, Sudan, France, Germany, Serbia, 2022  
     

                              National Church Film Awards

 
     
Tromsø 32nd Tromsø International Film Festival 2022  
  Faith in Film Award  
  Medusa  
  by Anita Rocha da Silveira, Brazil, 2021  
     
Göteborg 45th International Film Festival Göteborg 2022  
  Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos"  
  Dag för dag (Day by Day)  
  by Felix Herngren, Sweden, 2022  
     
Tampere 52nd Tampere Film Festival 2022  
  Church Media Foundation Prize  
  Ruthless Times - Songs for Care  
  by Susanna Helke, Finland, 2022  
     
Malmö 39th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö  
  Church of Sweden Youth Film Award  
  Olga  
  by Elie Grappe, Switzerland, France, 2021  
     
Berlin 18. Festival achtung berlin - new berlin film award  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury  
  Anima - Die Kleider meines Vaters  
, by Uli Decker, Germany, 2022  
     
Nyborg 20th Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2022  
  Rose  
  by Niels Arden Oplev, Denmark, 2022  
     
München 40. Filmfest München 2022  
 

One Future Prize of the Interfilm Academy Munich

 
  Nicht ganz koscher - eine göttliche Komödie  
  by Stefan Sarazin and Peter Keller, Germany, 2022  
     
  Commendation  
  Paloma  
  by Marcelo Gomes, Brazil, Portugal, 2022   
     
  Honorary Award  
  Stefanie Landgraf, film author, and Johannes Gulde, cinematographer  
     
Amsterdam 12th World Cinema Amsterdam 2022  
  3rd World Cinema Exchange Award  
  My Small World (Mai sumoru randu)  
  by Emma Kawawada, Japan, 2022  
     
Haugesund 50th Norwegian International Film Festival 2022  
  Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches  
  The Emigrants (Utvandrerne)  
  by Erik Poppe, Sweden, Norway, 2022  
     
Biel/Bienne 18e Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie  
  Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse  
  Le sixième enfant  
  by Léopold Legrand, France, 2022  
     
Oulu 41st International Children and Youth Film Festival  
  Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award  
  Blanket (Lakana)  
  by Teppo Airaksinen, Finland, 2021  
     
Zurich 18th Zurich Film Festival  
  Ecumenical Film Award of the Churches in Zurich  
  Foudre  
  by Carmen Jaquier, Switzerland, 2022  
     
  Commendation  
  Holidays  
  by Antoine Cattin, Switzerland, 2022  
     
Munich 41st  International FilmSchoolFest  
  Prix Interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie  
  Love Death and Everything in Between  
  by Soham Kundu, United Kingdom, 2022  
     
  Commendation  
  I Was Attacked  
  by Sara Massieu, United Kingdom, 2022  
     
Zurich 8th Human Rights Film Festival  
  Prix Célestine of Interfilm Switzerland  
  Alis  
  by Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas von Hemelryck, Colombia, Chile, Romania, 2022  
     
Frankfurt FILM OF THE YEAR 2022 of the Evangelical Film Jury  
  She Said  
 

by Maria Schrader, USA, 2022

 

 

                       Church Film Awards 2022 (alphabetical)

     
Title Director Award
     
73 Meshy Koplevitch Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition), Oberhausen, 2022
A Provincial Hospital Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2022
Alis Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas von Hemelryck Prix Célestine of Interfilm Switzerland, Human Rights Film Festival Zurich, 2022
Al-Sadd (The Dam) Ali Cherri Commendation  of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2022
Anima - Die Kleider meines Vaters Uli Decker Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, achtung berlin 2022
Big Man Camiel Schouwenaar Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Youth), Zlín, 2022
Blanket (Lakana) Teppo Airaksinen Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award, Oulu, 2022
Blink in the Desert Shinobu Soejima Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition), Oberhausen, 2022
Boy From Heaven Tarik Saleh Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck 2022
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2022
Coast Jessica Hester, Derek Schweickart Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition For Feature Films (Category Junior), Zlín, 2022
Dag för dag (Day by Day) Felix Herngren Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos", Göteborg, 2022
Foudre Carmen Jaquier Ecumenical Film Award of the Churches in Zurich, Zurich, 2022
Geographies of Solitude Jacquelyn Mills Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2022 (Forum)
Holidays Antoine Cattin Ecumenical Commendation of the Churches in Zurich, Zurich, 2022
I Was Attacked Sara Massieu Lobende Erwähnung der Interfilm-Akademie, FilmSchoolFest Munich, 2022
Il buco (The Hole) Michelangelo Frammartino Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Miskolc, 2022
Klondike Maryna Er Gorbach Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2022 (Panorama)
La Civil Teodora Ana Mihai Prix du Jury Œcuménique, Fribourg, 2022
La traversée (The Crossing) Florence Miailhe Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Chemnitz, 2022
Le sixième enfant Léopold Legrand Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse, Biel/Bienne, 2022
Love Death and Everything in Between Soham Kundu Prix Interculturel of the Interfilm Academy, FilmSchoolFest Munich, 2022
Ma vie en papier Vida Dena Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2022
Medusa Anita Rocha da Silveira Faith in Film Award, Tromsø, 2022
Minsk Boris Guts Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cottbus, 2022
Moneyboys C. B. Yi Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Saarbruecken, 2022
My Small World Emma Kawawada 3rd World Cinema Exchange Award, Amsterdam, 2022
Nicht ganz koscher - eine göttliche Komödie Stefan Sarazin, Peter Keller One Future Prize of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2022
Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely Panos Aphrahamiam Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2021 (International Competition)
Olga Elie Grappe Church of Sweden Youth Film Award, Malmö, 2022
Paloma Marcelo Gomes Commendation of the interfilm Academy, Munich, 2022
Rhino Arturo Castro Godoy Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Chemnitz, 2022
Rose Niels Arden Oplev Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2022
Ruthless Times - Songs for Care Susanna Helke Church Media Foundation Prize, Tampere, 2022
Sermon to the Fish Hilal Baydarov Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Cottbus, 2022
She Said Maria Schrader FILM OF THE YEAR 2022 of the Evangelical Film Jury, Frankfurt, 2022
Tales of the Purple House Abbas Fahdel Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2022
Tata (Dad) Anna Maliszewska Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2022
Tengo sueños eléctricos Valentina Maurel Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2022
The Emigrants (Utvandrere) Eric Poppe Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches, Haugesund, 2022
The Whale Darren Aronofsky 11th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue, Venice, 2022 
The Woodcutter Story Mikko Myllylahti Commendation of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck, 2022
Titan Valéry Carnoy Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition, Oberhausen, 2022
Un año, una noche (One Year, One Night) Isaki Lacuesta Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2022 (Competition)
Une vie comme une autre Faustine Cros Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Leipzig, 2022
Valeria is Getting Married Michal Vinik Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2021


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