The lists in this dossier summarize the church film awards of past years, made by ecumenical, interreligious, or INTERFILM juries at international film festivals, as well as awards by national or regional church film juries. Photo: "Bal" (Honey) by Semih Kaplanoglu, winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the International Film Festival Berlin, 2010.

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Church Film Awards 2023


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.world. 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 2023 (chronological)

                              International Festival Awards

  
Saarbrücken44th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2023 – Award of the 9th Ecumenical Jury
 Franky Five Star
 by Birgit Möller, Germany, 2023
  
Berlin73rd International Film Festival 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Competition)
 Totém
 by Lila Avilès, Mexico, Denmark, France, 2023
  
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (Competition)
 Sur l'Adamant
 by Nicolas Philibert, France, Japan, 2022
  
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Panorama)
 Sages-femmes (Midwives)
 by Léa Fehner, Ukraine, France, 2023
  
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Forum)
 Jaii keh khoda nist (Where God is Not)
 by Mehran Tamadon, France, Switzerland, 2023
  
Fribourg37e Festival International de Films 2023 – Prix du Jury Œcuménique 
 Abang Adik
 by Jin Ong, Malaysia, 2023
  
Nyon54e Visions du Réel 2023, Festival international du cinema
 Prize of the Interreligious Jury
 Pure Unknown
 by Mattia Colombo, Valentina Cicogna, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden 2023
  
Oberhausen 69th International Short Film Days / 69. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition)
 Let's be friends
 by Arno Coenen, Rodger Werkhoven, Netherlands, 2022
  
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition)
 Every Sunday, GrandMa
 by Laure Prouvost, France, Belgium, 2022
  
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Children and Youth Film Competition)
 Le jour de gloire (A Glorious Day)
 by Romuald Rodriguwes Andrade, Ludovic Aklil Piette, France, 2022
  
Cannes76e Festival de Cannes 2023 - 47e Prix Œcuménique
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Perfect Days
 by Wim Wenders, Japan, 2023
  
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury
 The Old Oak
 by Ken Loach, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, 2023
  
Zlín63rd International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Junior and Youth)
 Juniors
 by Hugo Thomas, France, 2022
  
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Junior and Youth)
 Sweet As
 by Jub Clerc, Australia, 2022
  
Karlovy Vary57th International Film Festival 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Urotcite na Blaga (Blaga's Lessons)
 by Stephan Komandarev, Bulgaria, Germany, 2023
  
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury
 Mokalake Tsmindani (Citizen Saint)
 by Tinatin Kajrishvili, Georgia, France, Bulgaria, 2023
  
Locarno76th Festival del Film 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Patagonia
 by Simone Bozzelli, Italy, 2023
  
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury
 Nu aştepta prea multde la sfârşitul lumii (Don't Expect Too Much From the End of the World)
 by Radu Jude, Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia 2023
  
Venice80th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2023
 12th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue 
 Io capitano
 by Matteo Garrone, Italy, Belgium, 2023
  
Miskolc19th Cinefest Miskolc 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Libertate (Freedom)
 by Tudor Giurgiu, Romania, Hungary, 2023
  
Chemnitz28th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Juniors
 by Hugo Thomas, France, 2022
  
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury 
 Belek (The Gift)
 by Dalmira Tilepbergen, Kyrgysztan, Lebanon, 2023
  
Warsaw39th Warsaw Film Festival 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Kein Wort (Not a Word)
 by Hanna Slak, Germany, France, Slovenia, 2023
  
Leipzig66th International Leipzig Festival  for Documentary and Animated Film 2023
 Prize of the Interreligious Jury
 Kumva - Ce qui vient du silence (Kumva - Which Comes From silence)
 by Sarah Mallégol, France, 2022
  
Lübeck65th Nordic Film Days Luebeck 2023
 Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury
 Paradiset Brinner (Paradise is Burning)
 by Mika Gustafson, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Italy, 2023
  
Cottbus33rd FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema 2023
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
 by Eleni Naveriani, Georgia, Switzerland, 2023
  
Mannheim-HeidelbergPrize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Una sterminata domenica (An Endless Sunday)
 by Alain Parroni, Italy, Germany, 2023
  
                        National Church Film Awards
  
Tromsø33rd Tromsø International Film Festival 2023
 Faith in Film Award
 Women Talking
 by Sarah Polley, USA, 2022
  
Göteborg46th International Film Festival Göteborg 2023
 Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos"
 Puss hej då (Love you bye)
 by Annika Fredriksson, Sweden, 2023
  
Tampere53rd Tampere Film Festival 2023
 Church Media Foundation Prize
 Wanha Markku (Under Construction)
 by Markus Toivo, Finland, 2023
  
Malmö40th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö
 Church of Sweden Youth Film Award
 Bullets
 by Peter Ponikis, Sweden, 2023
  
Berlin19. Festival achtung berlin - new berlin film award
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
 Die toten Vögel sind oben
,by Sönje Storm, Germany, 2022
  
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury
 The Homes We Carry
 Brenda Akele Jorde, Germany, 2022
  
Nyborg21st Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2023
 Den store stilhed (The Great Silence)
 by Katrine Brocks, Denmark, 2022
  
München41. Filmfest München 2023
 One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München
 Siccità (Dry)
 by Paolo Virzì, Italy, 2022
  
 Lobende Erwähnung
 Black Box
 by Aslı Özge, Germany, Belgium, 2023
  
 Lobende Erwähnung
 War and Justice
 by Marcus Vetter, Michele Gentile, Germany, 2023
  
 Ehrenpreis
 Michael Verhoeven
  
Amsterdam13th World Cinema Amsterdam 2023
 4th World Cinema Exchange Award
 Sira
 by Appoline Traoré, Burkina Faso, France, Germany, Senegal, 2023
  
Biel/Bienne19e Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie
 Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse
 Rosalie
 by Stéphanie De Giusto, France, 2023
  
Oulu42nd International Children and Youth Film Festival
 Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award
 Rap and Reindeer (Revontulten räppäri)
 by Petteri Saario, Finland, 2023
  
Zurich19th Zurich Film Festival
 Ecumenical Film Award of the Zurich Churches
 Las toreras
 by Jackie Brutsche, Switzerland, 2023
  
Munich42nd  International FilmSchoolFest
 Prix Interculturel of the Interfilm Academy
 The Boy
 by Yahav Winner, Israel, 2022
  
FrankfurtFILM OF THE YEAR 2023 of the Protestant Film Jury in Germany
 Past Lives
 by Celine Song, USA, South Corea, 2023

 

                  Church Film Awards 2023 (alphabetical)

   
TitleDirectorAward
   
Abang AdikJin OngPrix du Jury Œcuménique, Fribourg, 2023
Belek (The Gift)Dalmira TilepbergenCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Chemnitz 2023
Black BoxAslı ÖzgeCommendation of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2023
Blackbird, Blackbird, BlackberryEleni NaverianiPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cottbus, 2023
BulletsPeter PonikisChurch of Sweden Youth Film Award, Malmö, 2023
Den store stilhed (The Great Silence)Katrine BrocksGabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2023
Die toten Vögel sind obenSönje StormPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, achtung berlin 2023
Every Sunday, GrandMaLaure ProuvostCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2023 (Int. Competition)
Franky Five StarBirgit MöllerPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Saarbruecken 2023 
Io capitanoMatteo GarroneINTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue, Venice, 2023
Jaii keh khoda nist (Where God is Not)Mehran TamadouPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin 2023 (Forum)
JuniorsHugo ThomasPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín 2023 (Int. Comp. For Feature Films, Category Junior and Youth), and
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Chemnitz, 2023
Kein Wort (Not a Word)Hanna SlakPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2023
Kumva - Ce qui vient du silence (Kumva - Which Comes From silence)Sarah MallégolPrize of the Interreligious Jury, Lepzig, 2023
Las torerasJackie BrutscheEcumenical Film Award of the Zurich Churches, Zurich, 2023
Le jour de gloire (A Glorious Day)Romuald Rodrigues Andrade, Ludovic Aklil PiettePrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2023 (Children and Youth Film Competition)
Let's be friendsArno Coenen, Rodger WerkhovenPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2023 (Int. Competition)
Libertate (Freedom)Tudor GiurgiuPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Miskolc, 2023
Mokalake Tsmindani (Citizen Saint)Tinatin KajrishviliCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2023
Nu aştepta prea multde la sfârşitul lumii (Don't Expect Too Much From the End of the World)Radu JudeCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2023
Paradiset Brinner (Paradise is Burning)Mika GustafsonChurch Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck, 2023
Past LivesCeline SongFILM DES JAHRES 2023 of the Protestant Film Jury, Frankfurt
PatagoniaSimone BozzelliPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2023
Perfect DaysWim WendersPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes 2023
Pure UnknownMattia Colombo, Valentina CicognaPrize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2023
Puss hej då (Love you bye)Annika FredrikssonChurch of Sweden Film Award "Angelos", Göteborg, 2023
Rap and Reindeer (Revontulten räppäri)Petteri SaarioChurch Media Foundation Prize, "Look at me" Award, Oulu, 2023
RosalieStéphaniue De GiustoPrix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse, Biel/Bienne, 2023
Sages-femmes (Midwives)Léa FehnerPrize of the Ecumenivcal Jury, Berlin 2023 (Panorama)
Siccità (Dry)Paolo VirzìOne Future Prize of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2023
SiraAppoline TraoréWorld Cinema Exchange Award, Amsterdam, 2023
Sur l'AdamantNicolas PhilibertCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin 2023 (Int. Competition)
Sweet AsJub ClercCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín 2023 (Int. Comp. For Feature Films, Category Junior and Youth)
The BoyYahav WinnerPrix interculturel of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2023
The Homes We CarryBrenda Akele JordeCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, achtung berlin 2023
The Old OakKen LoachCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2023
TotémLila AvilèsPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2023 (Int. Competition)
Una sterminata domenica (An Endless Sunday)Alain ParroniPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2023
Urotcite na Blaga (Blaga's Lessons)Stephan KomandarevPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2023
Wanha Markku (Under Construction)Markus ToivoChurch Media Foundation Prize, Tampere, 2023
War and JusticeMarcus Vetter, Michele GentileCommendation of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2023
Women TalkingSarah PolleyFaith in Film Award, Tromsø, 2023
   

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Church Film Awards 2022


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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Church Film Awards 2021

                     
                          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.

Download: List of church film awards 2021

   

                               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

   

 

 

   

                            Church Film Awards 2021 (alphabetical)

   
     

Title

Director

Award

 

 

Borga

York-Fabian Raabe

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Saarbruecken, 2021

 

Asa ga kuru (True Mothers)

Naomi Kawase

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Fribourg 2021

 

Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege)

Abdallah al-Khatib

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2021

 

Home

Ngima Gelu Sherpa

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2021 (Int. Competition)

 

Zoom sur le cirque (Zoom on Circus

Dominique Margot

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2021 (Int. Competition)

 

Dalía

Brúsi Ólason

Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition (8+), Oberhausen, 2021

 

Nova

Luca Meisters

Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition (14+), Oberhausen, 2021

 

Kalsubai

Yudhajit Basu

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition), Oberhausen, 2021

 

Cântec de leagăn (Cradle)

Paul Mureşan

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury (International Online Competition), Oberhausen, 2021

 

Drive My Car

Hamaguchi Ryonosuke

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2021

 

Hytty nro 6 (Compartment No. 6)

Juho Kuosmanen

Comendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2021

 

Beans

Tracey Deer

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, International Comp. For Feature Films (Category Junior), Zlín, 2021

 

Valentina

Cássio Pereira dos Santos

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, International Competition for Feature Films (Category Youth), Zlín, 2021

 

After Love

Aleem Khan

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Full-Length Films), Kyiv, 2021

 

Into the Night

Camila Tamabura

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Short Films), Kyiv, 2021

 

Parole

Vojtěch Novotný

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Student Films), Kyiv, 2021

 

Strahinja Banović

Stefan Arsinjević

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2021

 

Zbornica (The Staffroom)

Sonja Tarokić

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlpovy Vary, 2021

 

Soul of the Beast

Lorenz Merz

Prize of the Ecu,menical Jury, Locarno, 2021

 

Amira

Mohamed Diab

10th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue, Venice, 2021

 

Mila (Apples)

Christos Nikou

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Miskolc, 2021

 

Mon cirque à moi (My Very Own Circus)

Miryam Bouchard

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Chemnitz, 2021

 

Virgjëresha Shqiptare (Albanian Virgin)

Bujar Alimani

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2021

 

Ringu wandaringu (Ring wandering)

Masakazu Kaneko

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2021

 

Que Dieu te protège

Cléo Cohen

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Leipzig, 2021

 

The Gravedigger's Wife

Khadar Ayderus Ahmed

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck 2021

 

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

Teemu Nikki

Commendation of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck, 2021

 

Brighton 4th

Leon Koguashvili

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cottbus, 2021

 

Ma nuit (My Night)

Antoinette Boulat

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2021

 

Pugalo (Scarecrow)

Dmitry Davydov

Faith in Film Award, Tromsø, 2021

 

Sweat

Magnus von Horn

Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos", Göteborg, 2021

 

Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle

Suvi West

Church Media Foundation Prize, Tampere, 2021

 

Gagarine

Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh

Church of Sweden Youth Film Award, Malmö, 2021

 

When a Farm Goes Aflame

Jide Tom Akindemu

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, achtung berlin 2021

 

Håp (Hope)

Maria Sødahl

Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2021

 

Nahschuss

Franziska Stündel

One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München, 2021

 

The Man Who Sold his Skin

Kaouther ben Hania

2nd World Cinema Exchange Award, Amsterdam, 2021

 

The Man Who Sold His Skin

Kaouther ben Hania

Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches, Haugesund, 2021

 

A Good Man

Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse, Biel/Bienne, 2021

 

Pertsa & Kilu (Finders of the Lost Yacht)

Taavi Vartia

Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award, Oulu, 2021

 

La mif (The Fam)

Fred Bailiff

Ökumenischer Filmpreis der Zürcher Kirchen, Zürich 2021

 

Topless

Hannah Jandl

Prix Interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie, München 2021

 

Mukagali

Bolat Kalymbetov

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia, Tallinn, 2021

 

Free Flow

Sâm Mirhosseini

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Budapest, 2021

 

Brîndarim

Orkan Byram

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Budapest, 2021

 

Silencio Radio (Radio Silence)

Juliana Faniul

WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2020

 

Kabul, City in the Wind

Aboozar Amini

FILM DES JAHRES 2021 der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit, Frankfurt

       

 

   

Church Film Awards 2020

 

                        Church Film Awards 2020 (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 list of film titles. For detailed information please click either on the film titles in the column to the right, or on the festival places left.
 

                                                        Festival Awards 2020

 

Saarbrücken

40st Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2020 – Award of the 6th Ecumenical Jury

 

Jiyan

 

by Süheyla Schwenk, Germany,2019

   

Berlin

70th International Film Festival 2020

 

Ecumenical Award to a film in the International Competition

 

Sheytan vojud nadarad (There is No Evil)

 

by Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran 2020

   
 

Ecumenical Award in the Panorama

 

Otac (Father)

 

by Srdan Golubovic, Serbia, France, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020

   
 

Ecumenical Award at the 49th Forum

 

Seishin 0 (Zero)

 

by Kazuhiro Sôda, Japan, USA, 2020

   
 

Commendation for a film in the Panorama

 

Saudi Runaway

 

by Susanne Regina Meures, Switzerland, 2020

   

Fribourg

34e Festival International de Films 2020 – no Ecumenical Jury

 

 

Nyon

51e Visions du Réel 2020, Festival international du cinema

 

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

 

Fuera del camino (Off the Road)

 

by José Permar, Mexico, USA, 2020

   

Oberhausen

66th International Short Film Days / 65. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2019

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Shepherds

 

by Teboho Edkins, France, South Africa, Germany, 2020

   
 

Commendations

 

Las muertes de Arístides (The Many Deaths of Arístide)

 

by Lázaro Lemus, Cuba, 2019

 

and

 

Milenina píseň (Milena’s Song)

 

by Marie Lukáčová and Anna Remešová, Czech Republic, 2019

   
 

Certificates for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition

 

Warum Schnecken keine Beine haben (Why Slugs Have No Legs)

 

by Aline Höchli, Switzerland, 2019

 

and

 

I’m Not Your F***cking Stereotype

 

by Hesome Chemamah, Thailand, 2019

   

Cannes

Festival cancelled

   

Zlin

59th International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2019

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Dein Herz tanzt (Into the Beat)

 

by Stefan Westerwelle, Germany, 2020

   
 

Commendation

 

Rocks

 

by Sarah Gavron, United Kingdom, 2020

   

Kyiv

49th International Film Festival Kyiv Molodist

 

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

 

Canción sin nombre (Song Without a Name)

 

by Melina León, Peru, Spain, USA, 2019

   
 

Commendation

 

Kuessipan

 

by Myriam Verreault, Canada, 2019

   
 

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

 

Bul’mastif (Bullmastif)

 

by Anastasiia Bukovska, Ukraine, 2020

   
 

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

 

Elli

 

by Vivien Hartmann, Germany, 2020

   

Karlovy Vary

Festival cancelled

   

Locarno

No international competition, no Ecumenical Jury

   

Venice

77th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2020 / no INTERFILM Jury

   

Miskolc

Festival cancelled

   

Chemnitz

25th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2020

 

5th Ecumenical Award

 

Le voyage du prince (The Prince’s Voyage)

 

by A1, France, Luxewmbourg, 2019

   
 

Commendation

 

Sestrenka (My Little Sister)

 

by Alexander Galibin, Russia, 2019

   

Warsaw

36th Warsaw Film Festival 2020

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Muž se zaječíma ušima (The Man With Hare Ears)

 

by Martin Sulík, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2020

   

Leipzig

63rd International Leipzig Festival  for Documentary and Animated Film

 

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

 

En route pour le milliard (Downstream to Kinshasa)

 

by Dieudo Hamadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Belgium, 2020

   

Lübeck

62snd Nordic Film Days Luebeck 2020

 

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury

 

En helt almindelig familie (A Perfectly Normal Family)

 

by Malou Reymann, Denmark, 2020

   
 

Commendation

 

Tigrar (Tigers)

 

by Ronny Sanndahl, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, 2020

   

Cottbus

30tth FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Jak najdalej stad (I Never Cry)

 

by Piotr Domalewski, Poland, 2020

   

Mannheim-Heidelberg

69th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Una promessa (The Stonebreaker)

 

by Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio

 

Italy, France, Belgium, 2020

   
 

Commendation

 

Koshtargah (The Slaughterhouse)

 

by Abbas Amini

 

Iran, 2020

   

                                               Additional Church Film Awards

 

Tromsø

30th Tromsø International Film Festival

 

Faith in Film Award

 

Qi Qiu (Balloon)

 

by Pema Tseden, China, 2019

   

Göteborg

43rd International Film Festival Göteborg

 

Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos"

 

Cinema Pameer

 

by Martin von Krogh, Sweden, 2020

   

Tampere

50th Tampere Film Festival

 

Church Media Foundation Award

 

Neiti Aika (Lady Time)

 

by Elina Talvensaari, Finland, 2019

   

Malmö

37th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö

 

Church of Sweden Youth Film Award

 

Lola (Lola vers la mer)

 

by Laurent Micheli, Belgium, France, 2019

   
 

INTERFILM Diploma

 

La inocencia

 

by Lucía Alemany, Spain, 2019

   

Berlin

16. Festival achtung berlin - new berlin film award

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Zustand und Gelände

 

by Ute Adamczewski, Germany, 2019

   
 

Commendation

 

Jiyan

 

By Süheyla Schwenk, Germany, 2019

   

Nyborg

no award 2020

   

Gauting

14. Fünf-Seen-Filmfest

 

35. One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München

 

The Great Green Wall

 

by Jared P. Scott, United Kingdom, 2020

   
 

Lobende Erwähnung

 

Corpus Christi

 

by Jan Komasa, Poland, 2019

   
 

Ehrenpreis

 

Matthias Helwig, Kinobetreiber

   

Amsterdam

cancelled

   

Haugesund

48th International Film Festival

 

Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches

 

Kunstneren og tyven (The Painter and the Thief)

 

by Benjamin Ree, Norway, 2020

   

Biel/Bienne

16e Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie

 

Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse

 

Petit pays

 

by Éric Barbier, France, 2020

   

Oulu

39th International Children and Youth Film Festival

 

Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award

 

Ráhkis eadni (My Dear Mother)

 

by Paul-Anders Simma, Finland, Sweden, Norway, 2019

   

Zürich

17th Zurich Film Festival

 

Ökumenischer Filmpreis der Zürcher Kirchen

 

Sami, Jo und ich

 

by Karin Heberlein, Switzerland, 2020

   

Munich

39. Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen

 

Prix Interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie

 

Voor Eunice (For Eunice)

 

by Jaan Stevens, Belgium, 2020

   

Tallinn

24th Black Nights Film Festival

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia

 

Armugan

 

by Jo Sol, Spain, 2020

   

Budapest

23rd Faludi Film Festival and Photo Competition

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Dzień jak co dzień (A Day Like Today)

 

by Magda Strzyżyńska, Poland, 2020

   

N.P.

WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award: 2019: no award

   

Frankfurt

FILM DES JAHRES 2020 der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit

 

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

 

by Eliza Hittman, USA, 2020

 

                         Church Film Awards 2020 (alphabetical)

 

Title

Director

Award

 

Armugan

Jo Sol

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia, Tallinn, 2020

Bul’mastif (Bullmastif)

Anastasïa Bukovska

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Kyiv, 2020 (Int. Comp. for Short Films)

Canción sin nombre (Song Without a Name)

Melina León

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Kyiv, 2020 (Int. Comp. for Full-Length Films)

Cinema Pameer

Martin von Krogh

Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos", Göteborg, 2020

Corpus Christi Jan Komasa Commendation of the Jury of the Interfilm Academy, Gauting, 2020

Dein Herz tanzt (Into the Beat)

Stefan Westerwelle

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín, 2020

Dzień jak co dzień (A Day Like Today)

Magda Strzyżyńska Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Budapest 2020

Elli

Vivien Hartmann

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Kyiv, 2020 (Int. Comp. for Student Films)

En helt almindelig familie (A Perfectly Normal Family)

Malou Reymann

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck, 2020

En route pour le milliard (Downstream to Kinshasa)

Dieudo Hamadi

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Leipzig, 2020

Fuera del camino (Off the Road)

José Permar

Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2020

I’m Not Your F***cking Stereotype

Hesome Chemanah

Certificate of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2020

Jak najdalej stad (In Never Cry)

Piotr Domalewski

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cottbus, 2020

Jiyan

Süheyla Schwenk

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Saarbruecken, 2020

Koshtargah (The Slaughterhouse)

Abbas Amini

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2020

Kuessipan

Miriam Verreault

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Kyiv, 2020 (Int. Comp. for Full-Length Films)

Kunstneren og tyven (The Painter and the Thief)

BenjaminRee

Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian  Churches, Haugesund, 2020

La inocencia

Lucia Alemany

INTERFILM Diploma, Malmö, 2020

Las muertes de Arístides

Lázaro Lemus

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2020

Le voyage du prince (The Prince’s Voyage)

Jean-François Laguionie, Xavier Picard

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Chemnitz, 2020

Lola (Lola vers la mer)

Laurent Micheli

Church of Sweden Youth Film Award, Malmö, 2020

Milenina píseň (Milena’s Song)

Marie Lukáčová and Anna Remešová

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2020

Muž se zaječíma ušima (The Man With Hare Ears)

Martin Sulík

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2020

Neiti Aika (Lady Time)

Elina Talvensaari

Church Media Foundation Prize Tampere, 2020

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Eliza Hittman

Film of the Year, Evangelical Film Jury in Germany, Frankfurt, 2020

Otac (Father)

Srdan Golubovic

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2020 (Panorama)

Petit pays

Éric Barbier

Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse, Biel/Bienne, 2020

Qi Qiu (Balloon)

Pema Tseden

Faith in Film Award, Tromsø, 2020

Ráhkis eadni (My Dear Mother)

Paul-Anders Simma

"Look at me" Award of the Church Media Foundation in Finland, Oulu, 2020

Rocks

Sarah Gavron

Comendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín, 2020

Sami, Jo und ich

Karin Heberlein

Ökumenischer Filmpreis der Zürcher Kirchen, Zurich, 2020

Saudi Runaway

Susanne Regina Meures

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2020 (Panorama)

Seishin 0 (Zero)

Kazuhiro Soda

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2020 Forum)

Sestrenka (My Little Sister)

Alexander Galibin

Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Chemnitz, 2020

Shepherds

Teboho Edkins

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2020

Sheytan vojud nadarad (There is No Evil)

Mohammad Rasoulof

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2020 (Int. Comp.)

The Great Green Wall

Jared P. Scott

One-Future-Prize of the Interfilm Academy, Gauting, 2020

Tigrar (Tigers)

Ronny Sanndahl

Commendation of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck, 2020

Una promessa (The Stonebreaker)

Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2020

Voor Eunice (For Eunice)

Jaan Stevens

Pix interculturel of the Interfilm Academy, Munich (FilmSchoolFestival), 2020

Warum Schnecken keine Beine haben

Aline Höchli

Certificate of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2020

Zustand und Gelände

Ute Adamczewski

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, achtung berlin, 2020

 

Church Film Awards 2019

   
 

Church Festival Awards 2019

   
Saarbruecken 40th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2019 – Award of the 5th Ecumenical Jury
  Das melancholische Mädchen (Aren't You Happy)
  by Susanne Heinrich, Germany 2019
   
Berlin 69th International Film Festival 2019
  Ecumenical Award to a film in the International Competition
  God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (Gospod postoj, imeto i' e Petrunija)
  by Teona Strugar Mitevska, North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, France, 2019
   
  Ecumenical Award in the Panorama
  Erde (Earth)
  by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 2019
   
  Ecumenical Award at the 48th Forum
  Buoyancy
  by Rodd Rathjen, Australia, 2019
   
  Commendation for a film in the Panorama
  Midnight Traveler
  by Hassan Fazili, USA, Great Britain, Katar, Chile, 2019
   
Fribourg 33e Festival International de Films 2019 – Prix du Jury Œcuménique 
  Compañeros - La noche de 12 años (A Twelve Year Night)
  by Álvaro Brecher, Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, France, Germany, 2018
   
  Commendation
  Volcano (Vulkan)
  by Roman Bondarchuk, Ukraine, Germany, Monaco, 2018
   
Nyon 50e Visions du Réel 2019, Festival international du cinema
  Prize of the Interreligious Jury
  When the Persimmons Grew ( Xurmalar Yetişən Vaxt)
  by Hilal Baydarov, Azerbaidjan, Austria, 2019
   
  Commendation
  Norie
  by Yuki Kawamura, Luxembourg, Japan, 2019 
   
Oberhausen  65th International Short Film Days / 65. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2019
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  NoirBLUE - Delocamentos de uma danca (NoirBLUE - Displacements of a Dance)
  by Ana Pi, France, Brasil, 2018
   
  Commendation
  amelina
  by Rubén Guzmán, Argentina, 2018
   
  Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition
  La gita (The School Trip)
  by Salvatore Alloca, Italy, 2018
   
Cannes 72e Festival de Cannes 2019 - 46e Prix Œcuménique
  A Hidden Life
  by Terrence Malick, Germany, USA, 2019
   
Zlin  59th International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2019
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Psychobitch
  by Martin Lund, Norway, 2018
   
  Commendation
  Rocca verändert die Welt (Rocca Changes the World)
  by Kathrin Benrath, Germany, 2019
   
Kyiv 48th International Film Festival Kyiv Molodist
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Full-Length Films)
  Systemsprenger (System Crasher)
  by Nora Fingscheidt, Germany, 2019
   
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Short Films)
  Miłość bezwarunkowa (Unconditional Love)
  by Rafał Lysak, Poland, 2018
   
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Student Films)
  Provence
  by Kato de Boeck, Belgium, 2018
   
Karlovy Vary 54th International Film Festival 2019 - Ecumenical Award 
  Lara
  by Jan Ole Gerste
   
  Commendation
  Nech je svetlo (Let There Be Light) 
  by Martin Škop, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, 2019
   
Locarno 72nd Festival del Film 2019
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Maternal
  by Laura Delpero, Italy, Argentina, 2019
   
  Commendation
  Vitalina Varela
  by Pedro Costa, Portugal, 2019
   
Venice 76th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2019
  9th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue 
  Bik eneich - Un fils
  by Mehdi Barsaoui, Tunisia, 2019
   
Miskolc 16th Cinefest Miskolc 2019
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Teheran - City of Love (Tehran shahr-e eshgh)
  by Ali Jaberansari, Iran, Great Britain, The Netherlands, 2018
   
Chemnitz 24th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2019
  4th Ecumenical Award
  Zu weit weg (Too Far Away)
  by Sarah Winkenstette, Germany, 2019
   
Warsaw 35th Warsaw Film Festival 2019
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Omar ve biz (Omar and Us)
  by Marina Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er, Turkey, 2019
   
Leipzig 62nd International Leipzig Festival  for Documentary and Animated Film
  Prize of the Interreligious Jury
  Exemplary Behaviour
  by Audrius Mickevičius, Nerijus Milerius, Lithuania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Italy, 2019
   
Luebeck 61st Nordic Film Days Luebeck 2019
  Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury
  Bergmál (Echo)
  by Rúnar Rúnarsson, Iceland, France, Switzerland, 2019
   
Cottbus 29th FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Pun mjesec (Full Moon)
  by Nermin Hamzagić, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2019
   
Mannheim-Heidelberg 68th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Rona, Madar-e Azim (Rona, Azim's Mother)
  by Jamshid Mahmoudi, Iran, Afghanistan, 2018
   
  Commendation
  The Grizzlies
  by Miranda de Pencier, Canada, 2018
   
 

Additional Church Film Awards

   
Tromsø 29th Tromsø Internsational Film Festival
  Faith in Film Award
  Lazzaro felice (Happy as Lazzaro)
  by Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, 2018
   
Göteborg 42nd International Film Festival Göteborg
  Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos"
  Till drömmarnas land (The Unpromised Land)
  by Victor Lindgren, Sweden, 2019
   
Tampere 48th Tampere Film Festival
  Church Media Foundation Prize
  Aatos ja Aminem (Gods of Molenbeek)
  by Reetta Huhtanen, Finland, 2019
   
Malmö 36th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö
  Church of Sweden Youth Film Award
  Zen sul ghiaccio sottile (Zen in the Ice Rift)
  by Margherita Ferri, Italy, 2018
   
  INTERFILM Diploma
  Harajuku
  by Eirik Svensson, Norway, 2018
   
Berlin 15. Festival achtung berlin - new berlin film award
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Der Stein zum Leben
  by Katinka Zeuner, Germany, 2018
   
Nyborg 17th Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2019
  Unge Astrid (Becoming Astrid)
  by Pernille Fischer Christensen, Denmark, Sweden, 2018
   
Munich 37. Filmfest München
  34. One Future Prize of the Interfilm Academy Munich
  Perro Bomba
  by Juan Cacéres, Chile, 2019
   
  Honorary Award
  Elisabeth Wicki-Endress, Schauspielerin
   
Amsterdam 10th World Cinema Amsterdam
  1st World Cinema Exchange Award
  Kiz kardeşler (A Tale of Three Sisters)
  by Emin Alper, B31Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, 2019
   
Haugesund 47th International Film Festival
  Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches
  Pupille (In Safe Hands)
  by Jeanne Herry, France, Belgium, 2018
   
Biel/Bienne 15e Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie
  Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse
  Les éblouis
  by Sarah Zuco, France, 2019
   
Oulu 38th International Children and Youth Film Festival
  Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award
  Vedenneito (Maiden of the Lake)
  by Petteri Saario, Finland, 2019
   
Zurich 16th Zurich Film Festival
  Film Award of the Churches in Zurich
  Waren einmal Revoluzzer (Once Were Rebels)
  by Johanna Moder, Austria, 2019
   
Munich 39th International FilmSchoolFest
  Prix Interculturel of the Interfilm Academy Munich
  La dernière séance (Rock Out)
  by Alice Gadbled, Belgium, 2019
   
Tallinn 23rd Black Nights Film Festival
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia
  Gipsy Queen
  by Hüseyin Tabak, Germany, Austria, 2019
   
Budapest 22nd Faludi Film Festival and Photo Competition
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Rozgonyine (Mrs. Rozgonyi)
  by Rozália Szeleczky, Hungary, 2019
   
N.P. WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2018
  Eldorado
  by Markus Imhoof, Switzerland, Germany, 2018
   
Frankfurt FILM OF THE YEAR 2019 of the Evangelical Film Jury in Germany
  So Long, My Son (Di jiu tian chang)
  by Wang Xiaoshuai, VR China, 2019

Church Film Awards 2018

   
 

Church Festival Awards 2018

   
Saarbrücken 39th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2018 – Award of the 4th Ecumenical Jury
  Landrauschen 
  by Lisa Miller, Germany 2018
   
Berlin 68th International Film Festival 2018
  Ecumenical Award to a film in the International Competition
  In den Gängen/In the Aisles
  by Thomas Stuber, Germany, 2018
   
  Ecumenical Award in the Panorama Section
  Styx
  by Wolfgang Fischer, Deutschland, Österreich, 2018
   
  Ecumenical Award at the 47th Forum
  Teatro de guerra/Theatre of War
  by Lola Arias, Argentina, Spain, 2018
   
  Commendation for a film in the International Competition
  Utøya 22. juli/U - July 22
  by Eric Poppe, Norway, 2018
   
Fribourg 32ème Festival International de Films 2018 – Prix du Jury Œcuménique 
  Foxtrot
  by Samuel Maoz, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, France, 2017
   
  Commendation
  Riven chornoho/Black Level
  by Valentin Vasjanovich, Ukraine, 2017
   
Nyon 19th Visions du Réel 2017 │ 49e Festival international du cinema
  Prize of the Interreligious Jury
  Almost Nothing
  by Anna de Manincor, ZimmerFrei, Italy, France, Belgium, 2018
   
  Commendation for the film
  Storie del dormiveglia/Stories of the Half-Light
  by Luca Magi, Italy, 2018
   
Oberhausen  64th International Short Film Days / 64. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2018
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Magnificent Obsession
  by Zhong Su, China, 2018
   
  Commendations
  Erh Hao Chiu Yi/On the Waitlist
  by Wu Hung Yi, Taiwan, 2017
  and
  Caterpillarplasty
  by David Barlow-Krelina, Canada, 2017
   
  Certificate for a film in the International Children's and Youth Film Competition
  Carlotta's Face
  by Frédéric Schuld, Valentin Riedl, Germany, 2018
   
Cannes 71ère Festival de Cannes 2017 - 45e Prix Œcuménique
  Capharnaüm
  by Nadine Labaki,Lebanon, 2018
   
  Commendation
  BlacKkKlansman
  by Spike Lee, USA, 2018
   
Zlin  58th International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2017
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Supa Modo
  by Likarion Wainaina, Kenya, Germany, 2018
   
Kyiv 47th International Film Festival Kyiv Molodist
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Full-Length Films)
  Retablo
  by Álvaro Delgado-Avaricio, Peru, Germany, Norway, 2017
   
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Short Films)
  Petites filles
  by Camille Japy, France 2017
   
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (International Competition for Student Films)
  Mit'/The Moment
  by Julia Tamtura, Ukraine, 2018
   
Karlovy Vary  52nd International Film Festival 2018 - Ecumenical Award 
  Geula/Redemption
  by Joseph Madmony, Boaz Jonathan Yakov, Israel, 2018
   
  Commendations
  Všechno bude/Winter Flies
  by Olmo Omerzu, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, 2018
  and
  Miriam mente/Miriam Lies
  by Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada, Dominican Republic, Spain, 2018
   
Locarno 71st Festival del Film 2018
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Sibel
  by Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Turkey, 2018
   
  Commendations 
  Diane
  by Kent Jones, USA, 2018
  and
  A Land Imagined
  by Yeoh Siew Hua, Singapore, France, Netherlands, 2018+B131
   
Venice 75th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2018
  8th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue 
  Tel Aviv on Fire
  by Sameh Zoabi, Luxembourg, France, Israel, Belgium, 2018
   
   
Miskolc 15th Miskolc Jameson CineFest 2018
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Den skyldige/The Guilty
  by Gustav Möller, Denmark, 2018
   
   
Chemnitz 23rd International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2018
  3rd Ecumenical Award
  The Breadwinner
  by Nora Twomey, Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg, 2018
   
  Commendation:
  Meerkat Mantuig/Meerkat Moonship
  by Hanneke Schutte, South Africa, 2017
   
Warsaw 34th Warsaw Film Festival 2018
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Irina
  by Nadejda Koseva, Bulgaria, 2018
   
  Commendation
  Delegacioni/The Delegation
  by Bujar Alimani, Albania, France, Greece, Kosovo, 2018 
   
Leipzig 61st International Leipzig Festival  for Documentary and Animated Film
  Prize of the Interreligious Jury
  Avevo un sogno/I Had a Dream
  by Claudia Tosi, Italy, 2018
   
  Special Prize of the Interreligious Jury
  #Female Pleasure
  by Barbara Miller, Switzerland, Germany, 2018
   
Lübeck 60th Nordic Film Days Luebeck
  Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury
  Kona fer í stríð/Woman at War
  by Benedict Erlingsson, Iceland, France, Ukraine, 2018
   
Cottbus 28th FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Ayka
  by Sergej Dvortsevoj, Russia, Poland, Germany, Kazakhstan, China, 2018
   
Mannheim-Heidelberg 67th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Rooz-haje Narenji/Orange Days
  by Arash Lahooti, Iran, 2018
   
 


Additional Church Film Awards

   
Tromsø  28th International Film Festival
  Faith in Film Award
  Per Fugelli: Siste resept/Per Fugelli: The Last Prescription
  by Eric Poppe, Norway, 2018 
   
Göteborg 41st International Film Festival Göteborg
  Swedish Church Film Prize – Angelos Award
  Amatörer/Amateurs
  by Gabriela Pichler, Sweden 2018
   
Tampere 48th Tampere Film Festival
  Church Media Foundation Prize
  Yrittäjä/Entrepreneur
  by Virpi Suutari, Finland, 2018
   
Malmö 35th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö
  Church of Sweden Youth Film Award
  I Kill Giants
  by Andrew Walters, USA, 2017
   
  INTERFILM Diploma
  Saturday Church
  by Damon Cardasis, USA, 2017
   
Berlin 14. achtung berlin - new berlin film award
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Die neuen Kinder von Golzow
  by Simone Catharina Gaul, Germany, 2017
   
Nyborg 16th Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2018
  Jätten/The Giant
  by Johannes Nyholm, Sweden, 2016
   
München 36. Filmfest München
  33. One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München
  Nahai ba ramhis gomor/A Letter to the President
  by Roya Sadat, Afghanistan, 2017
   
  Lobende Erwähnung
  Welcome to Sodom
  by Florian Weigensamer, Christian Krönes, Austria, "018
   
  Ehrenpreis
  Gerd Baumann, Filmkomponist
   
Haugesund 43rd International Film Festival
  Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches
  The Children Act
  by Richard Eyre, UK, 2017
   
Biel/Bienne 14e Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie
  Prix Célestine d'Interfilm Suisse
  Nos batailles/Our Struggles
  by Guillaume Senez, Belgium, France, 2018
   
Oulu 37th International Children and Youth Film Festival
  Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award
  Supermarsu/Superfurball
  by Joona Tena, Finland, 2018
   
Munich 38. Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen
  Prix Interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie
  Siren
  by Zara Dwinger, Netherlands, 2017
   
Tallinn 22nd Black Nights Film Festival
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia
  Werewolf
  by Adrian Panek, Poland, 2018
   
N.P. WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2017
  Maman Colonelle
  by Dieudo Hamadi, France, Democratic Rebublic of the Congo, Netherlands, USA, 2017
   
Frankfurt FILM DES JAHRES der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit
  In den Gängen / In the Aisles
  by Thomas Stuber, Germany, 2018

Church Film Awards 2017

 

                             Church Festival Awards 2017

 

 

Saarbrücken

38th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2017

 

Award of the 3rd Ecumenical Jury

 

Vanatoare, by Alexandra Balteanu, Germany 2016

   

 

 

Berlin

67th International Film Festival 2017

 

Ecumenical Award to a film in the International Competition

 

Teströl és léléköl / On Body and Soul

 

by Ildikó Enyedi, Hungary 2017

 

 

 

Ecumenical Award in the Panorama Section

 

Tahqiq fel djenna /Investigating Paradise

 

by Merzak Allouache, France, Algeria 2017

 

 

 

Ecumenical Award at the 47th Forum

 

Maman Colonelle

 

by Diedo Hamadi, France, Congo, Netherlands, USA, 2017

   
 

Commendation for a film in the International Competition

 

Una mujer fantástica / A Fantastic Woman

 

by Sebastián Lelio, Chile, USA, Germany, Spain 2017

 

 

 

Commendation for a film in the Panorama

 

I Am Not Your Negro

 

by Raoul Peck, France, USA, Belgium, Switzerland 2016

 

 

 

Commendation for a film in the Forum

 

El mar la mar

 

by Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki, USA 2017

   

 

 

Fribourg

31ère Festival International de Films 2017

 

Prix du Jury Œcuménique

 

Seto Surya / White Sun

 

by Deepak Rauniyar, Nepal, Netherlands, Qatar, USA 2015

   
 

 

Nyon

18th Visions du Réel 2017 │ 48e Festival international du cinema

 

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

 

Los ojos de la mar / The Gaze of the Sea

 

by José Álvarez, Mexico 2017

 

 

 

Commendation for the film

 

No Place for Tears

 

by Rejan Tuvi, Turkey 2017

 

 

 

 

Oberhausen

63rd International Short Film Days / 63. Internationale Kurzfilmtage 2017

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Seeds

 

by Philippa Ndisi-Hermann, Kenya 2016

   
 

Commendations

 

The Separate System

 

by Katie Davis, Great Britain 2017

 

and

 

Gos leat don? / Where Are You?

 

by Egil Pedersen, Norway 2017

   

 

 

Cannes

70ème Festival de Cannes 2017 - 44e Prix Œcuménique

 

Hikari /Radiance

 

by Naomi Kawase. Japan, France, 2017

   
   

Zlin

57th International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2017

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Half Ticket

 

by Samit Kakkad, India 2016

   
 

Commendation

 

Railway Children

 

by Prithvi Konanur, India 2016

   
   

Karlovy Vary

51th International Film Festival 2017 - Ecumenical Award

 

The Cakemaker

 

by Ofir Raul Graizer, Israel, Germany 2017

   
   

Locarno

70th Festival del Film 2017

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Lucky

 

by John Caroll Lynch, USA 2017

   
 

Commendations

 

Vinterbrødre / Winter Brothers  

 

by Hlynur Palmason, Denmark, Iceland 2017

 

and

 

Qing ting zhi yan / Dragonfly Eyes

 

by Xu Bing, Cina, USA 2017

   
   

Venice

74th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2017

 

7th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue

 

Los versos del olvido / Oblivion Verses

 

by Alireza Khatami, France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile 2017

   
   

Miskolc

14th Miskolc Jameson CineFest 2017

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Aritmija / Arrythmia

 

by Boris Khlebnikov, Russia, Finland, Germany 2017

   
   

Chemnitz

22nd International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2017

 

2nd Ecumenical Award

 

Sobre rodas / On Wheels

 

by Mauro d'Addio, Brasil 2017

   
 

Commendation:

 

Zuckersand / Sugar Sand

 

by Dirk Kummer, Germany 2017

   
   

Warsaw

33rd Warsaw Film Festival 2017

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Beyond Words

 

by Urszula Antoniak, Netherlands, Poland 2017

   
 

Commendation

 

Rudar / The Miner

 

by Hanna Slak, Romania, Slovenia 2017

   
   

Leipzig

60th International Leipzig Festival  for Documentary and Animated Film

 

Prize of the Interreligious Jury

 

Liefde is aardappelen / Life is Potatoes

 

by Aliona van der Horst, Netherlands 2017

   
   

Lübeck

59th Nordic Film Days Luebeck

 

Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury

 

Verdwijnen / Disappearance

 

by Boudewijn Koole, Netherlands, Norway, 2017

   
 

Commendation

 

Rett vest / Going West

 

by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, Norway, 2017

   

 

 

Cottbus

27th FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Dzikie róze / Wild Roses

 

by Anna Jadowska, Poland, 2017

 

 

 

 

Mannheim-Heidelberg

66th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

 

Une vie ailleurs / Life Beyond Me

 

by Olivier Peyon, France, Uruguay, 2017

   
 

Commendation

 

Oralman / Returnee

 

by Sabit Kurmanbekov, Kazakhstan, 2017

   

 

 

                              Additional Church Film Awards

 

 

Göteborg

40th International Film Festival Göteborg

 

 

Swedish Church Film Prize – Angelos Award

 

 

Dröm vidare / Beyond Dreams

 

 

by Rojda Sekerzös, Sweden 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tampere

47th Tampere Film Festival

 

 

Church Media Foundation Prize

 

 

Kiehumispiste /Boiling Point

 

 

by Elina Hirvonen, Finland 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malmö

34th International Children and Young People’s Festival BUFF Malmö

 

 

Church of Sweden Youth Film Award

 

 

Hjartasteinn / Heartstone

 

 

by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, Denmark, Iceland, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nyborg

15th Gabriel Film Prize of the Danish Church 2017

 

 

Der kommer en dag /The Day Will Come

 

 

by Jesper W. Nielsen, Denmark, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

München

35. Filmfest München

 

 

32. One-Future-Preis der Interfilm-Akademie München

 

 

Cuori puri / Pure Hearts

 

 

by Roberto de Paolis, Italy 2017

 

 

 

 

 

Ehrenpreis

 

 

Artur Brauner, Produzent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oulu

36th International Children and Youth Film Festival

 

 

Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award

 

 

Kukista ja mehiläisistä / Abouth the Birds and the Bees

 

 

by J.J. Vanhanen, Finland 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N.P.

WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2016

 

 

Cahier africain

 

 

by Heidi Specogna, Switzerland, Germany, 2016

 

 

Church Film Awards 2016

 
  

Church Film Awards 2016 (chronological)

 
   

 

Festival Awards

 
   
Saarbrücken37th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2016 
 Prize of the 2nd Ecumenical Jury 
 Der Nachtmahr / The Nightmare, by AKIZ, Germany 2015 
   
Berlin66th International Film Festival 2016 
 Ecumenical Award to a film in the official competition 
 Fuocoammare / Fire at Sea 
 by Gianfranco Rosi, Italy France 2015 
   
 Ecumenical Award in the Panorama Section to the film 
 Les premiers, les derniers / The First, The Last 
 by Bouli Lanners, Belgium/France 2016 
   
 Ecumenical Awards at the 46th Forum ex aequo to the films 
 Les sauteurs /Those Who Jump 
 by Abou Bakar Sidibé. Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert, Denmark 2016 
 and 
 Barakah yoqabil Barakah / Barakah Meets Barakah 
 by Mahmoud Sabbagh, Saudi Arabia 2016 
   
Fribourg30ème Festival International de Films 2016 
 Prix du Jury Œcuménique 
 Alias Maria 
 by José Luis Rugeles, Colombia/Argentina/France 2015+B54 
   
   
Nyon17th Visions du Réel 2016 │ 47e Festival international du cinema 
 Award of the Interreligious Jury 
 Bref manuel de liberation 
 by Alexander Kuznetsov, France 2016 
   
 Commendations 
 Looking Like My Mother 
 by Dominique Margot, Switzerland 2016 
 and 
 Il respire encore 
 by Anca Hirte, France 2016 
   
Oberhausen62nd International Short Film Days / Kurzfilmtage 2016 
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 
 489 Years 
 by Hayoun Kwon, France 2016 
   
Cannes69ème Festival International du Film 2016 
 43e Prix Œcuménique 
 Juste la fin du monde / It’s only the end of the world 
 by Xavier Dolan, Canada 2016 
   
 Commendations for two films in the official competition: 
 American Honey 
 by Andrea Arnold, USA 2016 
 and 
 I, Daniel Blake / Moi, Daniel Blake 
 by Ken Loach, United Kingdom 2016 
   
Zlin56th International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2016 
 Ecumenical Award to a film for Children 
 Abulele 
 by Jonathan Geva, Israel 2015 
   
 Commendation to a film for Youth 
 La Vie en Grand / Learn by Heart 
 by Mathieu Vadepied, France 2015 
   
Karlovy Vary51th International Film Festival 2016 
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 
 Le Confessioni │The Confessions│Die Bekenntnisse 
 by Roberto Andò, Italy/France 2016 
   
Yerevan13th Golden Apricot Festival 2016 
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 
 Immortal │ Mamiroo 
 by Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh, Iran 2015 
   
Locarno69th Festival del Film 2016 
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 
 Godless 
 by Ralitza Petrova, Bulgaria/Denmark/France 2016 
   
 Commendations 
 Mister Universo 
 by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, Austria/Italy 2016 
   
 Marija 
 by Michael Koch, Germany/Switzerland 2016 
   
Venice73rd Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2016 
 6th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue 
 White Sun / Seto Surya 
 by Deepak Rauniyar,  Nepal/USA/Qatar/ Netherlands 2015 
   
Miskolc13th Miskolc Jameson CineFest 2016 – 6th Ecumenical Award 
 6th Prize oft he Ecumenical Jury 
 Under sandet / Land of Mine / Unter dem Sand – Das Versprechen der Freiheit 
 by Martin Zandfliet, Denmark/Germany 2015 
   
Chemnitz21st International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience “Schlingel” 2016 
 1st Ecumenical Award 
 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 
 by Taika Waititi, New Zealand 2016 
   
 Commendation: 
 Mister Frog / Meester Kikker 
 by Anna Van Den Heide, Belgium/Netherland 2016 
   
Warsaw3rd Warsaw Film Festival 2016 – 7th Ecumenical Award 
 Heartstone / Hjartasteinn 
 by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson, Iceland/Denmark 2016 
   
Kyiv46th Molodist International Film Festival 
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Full-length Films) 
 Keeper 
 by Guillaume Senez, Belgium/France/Netherlands, 2016 
   
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Short Films) 
 Ascensão 
 by Pedro Peralta, Portugal, 2016 
   
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Student Films) 
 Esel / Carry On 
 by Rafael Haider, Austria, 2015 
   
Leipzig59th International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films 
 Prize of the 1st Interreligious Jury 
 Cahier africain 
 by Heidi Specogna. Germany, Switzerland, 2016 
   
Luebeck58th Nordic Film Days 
 Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM-Jury 
 Rosemari / Framing Mom 
 by Sara Johnsen, Denmark, Germany, Norway, 2016 
   
Cottbus26th FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema 
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 
 Tiszta szívvel / Kills On Wheels 
 by Attila Till, Hungary, 2016 
   
Mannheim-Heidelberg65th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg 
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 
 Gnizdo Gorlytsi /The Nest of the Turtledove 
 by Taras Tkachenko, Italy, Ukraine, 2016 
   
 Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury 
 Dnevnik masinovodje / Train Driver's Diary 
 by Milos Radovic, Serbai, 2016 
   

 

Additional Church Film Awards

 
   
Göteborg39th International Film Festival 
 Church of Sweden Film Award "Angelos" 
 Flickan som räddade mitt liv / The Girl Who Saved My Life 
 by Hogir Hirori, Sweden, 2016 
   
Malmö33rd International Children and Youth Film Festival 
 The Church of Sweden Youth Film Award 
 Microbe et Gasoil 
 Michel Gondry, France, 2015 
   
 Honourable Mention 
 Sonita 
 by  Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany, Switzerland, Iran, 2015 
   
NyborgFilm Prize of the Denish Church "Gabriel" 
 Louder Than Bombs 
 by Joachim Trier, Denmark, France, Norway, 2015 
   
München34. Filmfest München 
 31. One-Future-Prize of the Interfilm Academy, Munich 
 Eine unerhörte Frau 
 by Hans Steinbichler, Germany, 2016 
   
 Commendations of the Interfilm Academy 
 Die Reise mit Vater 
 by Anca M. Lăzărescu, Germany, Romania, Sweden, Hungary, 2016 
 and 
 Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World 
 by Werner Herzog, USA, 2016 
   
 Ehrenpreis 
 Prof. Heiner Stadler 
   
Oulu35th International Children's and Youth Film Festival 
 Look at Me Award of the Church Media Foundation 
 Tyttö nimeltä Varpu / Little Wing 
 by Selma Vilhunen, Finland, Denmark, 2016 
   
FrankfurtFILM DES JAHRES der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit
 Toni Erdmann 
 by Maren Ade, Germany, 2016 
   

 

 

                           Church Film Awards 2016 (alphabetical)

   
TitleDirectorAward
À ses enfants la patrie reconaissanteStéphane LandowskiPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Kyiv, 2015 (Short Films Competition)
Au moins le sais-tu...Arthur LecouturierPrix interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie, FilmSchoolFest München 2015
BabaiVisar MorinaOne Future Prize of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2015
Bai ri gaobie (Zinnia Flower)Tom LinSpecial Mention of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia, Tallinn, 2015
Bella perdutaPietro MarcelloCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2015
Bob and the TreesDiego OngaroPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2015
BraciaWojciech StaronPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Leipzig, 2015
Chaharshanbeh, 19 OrdibeheshtVahid JalilvandAward for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue, Venezia, 2015
ConductaErnesto DaranasPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín, 2015
Dap cánh giua không trungDiep Hoang NguyenPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Fribourg, 2015
De ce eu?Tudor GiurgiuCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Miskolc, 2015
Distancia cortasAlejandro Guzmán ÁlvarezPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim, 2015
Doroga na BerlinSergej PopovCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Montreal, 2015
DriftenKarim PatwaPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Saarbrücken, 2015
El boton de nácarPatricio GuzmánPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2015 (Competition)
Every Face Has a NameMagnus GerttenAngelos Award of the Swedish Church
FúsiDagur KáriChurch Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck, 2015
Histoire de JudasRabah Ameur-ZaïmechePrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2015 (Forum)
Homeland | Iraq Year ZeroAbbas FahdelCommendation of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2015
If I RuledJenni Kangasniemi, Aino Suni"Look At Me" Award of the Church Media Foundation, Oulu, 2015
Imena višneBranko SchmidtPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cottbus, 2015
IxcanulJayro BustamantePrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Kyiv, 2015 (Feature Films Competition)
Jigeumeun matgo geuttaeneun teullidaHong SangsooCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2015
La loi du marchéStéphane BrizéCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2015 (Competition)
La pasión de JudasDavid PantaleónPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2015
Loin des hommesDavid OelhoffenAndreas Award of the Norwegian Churches, Haugesund, 2015
L'orchestre de minuitJérôme Cohen OlivarPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Montreal, 2015
Ma dar beheshtSina Ataeian DenaPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2015
Madres de los diosesPablo AgüeroPrize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2015
MediterraneaJonas CarpignanoCommendation of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2015
Mennesker bliver spistEric ClausenThe Danish Church Film Prize "Gabriel"
Mia madreNanni MorettiPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2015
Mina WalkingYosef BarakiCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín, 2015
Moskvich, My LoveAram ShabayanPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Yerevan, 2015
Ned RifleHal HartleyPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2015 (Panorama)
Paradise SuiteJoost van GinkelPrize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia, Tallinn, 2015
Pesn pesneyEva NeymannCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2015
Sivas Kaan MüdejciCoemmendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Yerevan, 2015
SunrisePartho en-GuptaCommendation of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2015
SuperweltKarl MarkoviczPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Miskolc, 2015
TaklubBrillante MendozaCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2015 (Un certain regard)
TaxiJafar PanahiSIGNIS-WACC Human Rights Award, 2014
TaxiJafar PanahiFILM DES JAHRES 2014 der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit
Tišina MujoUrsula MeierCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2015
Un instante en La HabanaGuillermo IvanCommendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Montreal, 2015
X+YMorgan MatthewsThe Church of Sweden Youth Film Award
Ya tayr el tayer (The Idol)Hani Abu-AssadPrize of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2015

Church Film Awards 2015

 
   
 

Festival Awards (chronological)

 
     
Saarbrücken 36th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2015   
  Award of the 1st Ecumenical Jury  
  Driften  
  by Karim Patwa, Switzerland 2014  
     
Berlin 65th International Film Festival 2015  
  Ecumenical Award to a film in the International Competition  
  El botón de nácar │ The Pearl Button │Der Perlmuttknopf  
  by Patricio Guzmán, France/Chile/Spain 2015   
     
  Ecumenical Award to a film in the Panorama:  
  Ned Rifle  
  by Hal Hartley, USA 2014  
     
  Ecumenical Award to a film at the 45th Forum  
  Histoire de Judas │ History of Judas  
  by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France 2015  
     
Fribourg 29ème Festival International de Films 2015   
  Prix du Jury Œcuménique  
  Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere │ Dap cánh giua không trung  
  by Diep Hoang Nguyen, Vietnam 2014  
     
Nyon 16th Visions du Réel 2015 │ 46e Festival international du cinema  
  Award of the Interreligious Jury  
  Mothers of the Gods │ Madres de los dioses  
  by Pablo Agüero, Argentine/France 2015  
     
  Commendation of the Interreligious Jury  
  Homeland │ Iraq Year Zero  
  by Abbas Fahdel, Iraq/France 2015  
     
Oberhausen  61st International Short Film Days / Kurzfilmtage 2015  
  Award of the Ecumenical Jury  
  La pasión de Judas (Die Judas-Passion)  
  by David Pantaleón, Spain 2014  
     
  Commendation  
  Tišino Mujo │ Der stille Mujo  
  by Ursula Meier, France/Bosnia/Herzegowina/Switzerland 2014   
     
Cannes 68ème Festival International du Film 2015  
  42e Prix Œcuménique  
  Mia Madre  
  by Nanni Moretti, Italy 2015  
     
  Commendation for a film in the official competition:  
  La Loi du Marché  
  by Stéphane Brisé, France 2015  
     
  Mention spéciale dans la section “Un Certrain Regard”  
  Taklub  
  by Brillante Mendoza, Philippine 2015  
     
Zlin  55th International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2015  
  Ecumenical Prize to a Film for Youth  
  Behaviour │ Conducta  
  by Ernesto Daranas, Cuba 2014  
     
  Commendation to a Film for Youth  
  Mina Walking  
  by Yosef Baraki, Afghansatan/Canada 2015  
     
Karlovy Vary  50th International Film Festival 2015  
  Ecumenical Prize   
  Bob and the Trees │ Bob a stromy  
  by Diego Ongaro, USA 2015  
     
  Commendation  
  Song of Songs │ Pesn pesney │ Piseň pisni,   
  by Eva Neymann, Ukraine 2015  
     
Yerevan 12th Golden Apricot Festival 2015  
  Ecumenical Prize in the Armenian Panorama  
  Moskvich, My Love  
  by Aram Shabayan, Armenia 2014  
     
  Commendation in the section “Across Borders”:  
  Sivas  
  by Kaan Müjdeci, Turkey/Germany 2014  
     
Locarno 68th Festival del Film 2015  
  Ecumenical Prize  
  Ma Dar Behesht / Paradise  
  by Sina Ataeian Dena, Iran, B18Germany 2015  
     
  Commendations   
  Jigeumeun Matgo Geuttaeneun Teullida│Right Now - Wrong Then  
  by Hong Sangsoo, South Corea, 2015  
     
  Bella Perduta  
  by Pietro Marcello, Italy 2015  
     
Montréal 39ème Festival des Films du Monde 2015  
  Prix Œcuménique  
  The Midnight Orchestra / L’Orchestre de minuit   
  by Jérôme Cohen Olivar, Morocco 2015  
     
  Commendations  
  Un instante en La Habana  
  by Guillermo Ivan, USA/Cuba/Mexico/Colombia 2015  
  and   
  Doroga na Berlin / On the Road to Berlin   
  by Sergei Popov, Russia 2015  
     
Venice 72nd Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2015  
  5th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue  
  Chaharshanbeh, 19 Ordibehesht / Wednesday, May 9  
  by Vahid Jalilvand, Iran 2015  
     
Miskolc 12th Miskolc Jameson CineFest 2015  
  5th Ecumenical Prize  
  Superwelt / Superworld  
  by Karl Markovics, Austria 2015  
     
  Commendation  
  De ce eu? / Why me?  
  by Tudor Giurgiu, Romania/Bulgaria/Hungary, 2015  
     
Warsaw 31st Warsaw Film Festival 2015  
  6th Ecumenical Prize  
  The Idol / Ya tayr el tayer  
  by Hani Abu-Assad, UK/Palestine/Qatar/Netherlands/United Arab Emirates 2015  
     
Mannheim-Heidelberg 64th International Film Festival 2015  
  Ecumenical Prize  
  Distancia cortas / Walking Distance  
  by Alejandro Guzmán Álvarez, Mexico 2015  
     
Kyiv 45th International Film Festival MOLODIST 2015  
  Prize in the competition for full-length films:  
    Ixcanul / Volcano / Der Vulkan  
   by Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala 2015  
     
  Prize in the competition for professional short films:  
  Á ses enfants la patrie reconnaissante / Our Fallen Heroes  
  by Stéphane Landowski, France 2015  
     
Leipzig  58th DOK Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animation Film 2015  
  Prize of the 26th Ecumenical Jury, including two guests of Jewish and Muslim faith  
  Bracia / Brothers / Brüder  
  by Wojciech Staron, Poland 2015  
     
Cottbus 25th FilmFestival Cottbus 2015  
  Ecumenical Prize  
  Imena Višne / The Ungiven / Sauerkirschen  
  by Branko Schmidt, Croatia 2015  
     
Lübeck 57. Nordische Filmtage/Nordic Filmdays 2015  
  Church Film Prize by the INTERFILM Jury  
  Fúsi / Virgin Mountain    
  by Dagur Kári, Island/Denmark 2015  
     
 

Additional Church Film Awards

 
     
Göteborg 38th International Film Festival 2015  
  The Angelos Award of the Swedish Church  
  Every Face has a Name  
  by Magnus Gertten, Sweden 2014  
     
Malmö 32th International Children and Young People's Film Festival BUFF 2015  
  The Church of Sweden Youth Film Award  
  X + Y  
  by Morgan Matthews, United Kingdom 2014   
     
Berlin 11. achtung berlin - new berlin film award  
  Preis der Ökumenischen Jury  
  Müdigkeitsgesellschaft - Byung-Chul Han in Seoul / Berlin  
  von Isabella Gresser, Deutschland 2015   
     
Nyborg 13rd Gabrielprisen – The Danish Church Film Award ”Gabriel” 2015  
  Mennesker bliver spist  
  by Erik Clausen, Denmark 2015   
     
München 33. Filmfest München 2015 - “One-Future-Preis”   
  “One-Future-Preis” der INTERFILM-Akademie München  
  Babai  
  von Visar Morina, Germany/France/Kosovo/Macedonia 2015   
     
  Lobende Erwähnungen  
  Mediterranea  
  von Jonas Carpignano, France/Italy/USA 2015  
  Sunrise  
  von Partho Sen-Gupta, India 2014   
     
Haugesund 43rd Norwegian International Film Festival  
  Andreas Award of the Ecumenical Jury of the Norwegian Churches  
  Far From Men (Loin des hommes)  
  by David Oelhoffen, France, 2014  
     
Oulu 34th International Children- and Youth Film Festival  
  The Church Media Foundation “Look at me” Award  
  If I Ruled   
  by Jenni Kangasniemi and Aino Suni, Finland  
     
München 35th FilmSchoolFest Munich  
  Prix Interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie München  
  Do You Even Know... (Au moins le sais-tu...)  
  by Arthur Lecouturier, Belgium, 2014  
     
Tallinn 19th Black Nights Film Festival  
  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia  
  Paradise Suite  
  by Joost van Ginkel, Sweden, Bulgaria, 2015  
     
  Commendation  
  Bai ri gaobie (Zinnia Flower)  
  by Tom Lin, Taiwan, 2015+B213  
     
WACC/SIGNIS Human Rights Film Award 2014  
  Taxi  
  by Jafar Panahi, Iran 2014  
     
Frankfurt FILM DES JAHRES der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit  
  Taxi / Taxi Teheran  
  by Jafar Panahi, Iran 2014  
     
     

 

                            Church Film Awards 2015 (alphabetical)

     
Title Director Award
À ses enfants la patrie reconaissante Stéphane Landowski Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Kyiv, 2015 (Short Films Competition)
Au moins le sais-tu... Arthur Lecouturier Prix interculturel der Interfilm-Akademie, FilmSchoolFest München 2015
Babai Visar Morina One Future Prize of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2015
Bai ri gaobie (Zinnia Flower) Tom Lin Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia, Tallinn, 2015
Bella perduta Pietro Marcello Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2015
Bob and the Trees Diego Ongaro Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2015
Bracia Wojciech Staron Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Leipzig, 2015
Chaharshanbeh, 19 Ordibehesht Vahid Jalilvand Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue, Venezia, 2015
Conducta Ernesto Daranas Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín, 2015
Dap cánh giua không trung Diep Hoang Nguyen Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Fribourg, 2015
De ce eu? Tudor Giurgiu Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Miskolc, 2015
Distancia cortas Alejandro Guzmán Álvarez Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim, 2015
Doroga na Berlin Sergej Popov Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Montreal, 2015
Driften Karim Patwa Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Saarbrücken, 2015
El boton de nácar Patricio Guzmán Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2015 (Competition)
Every Face Has a Name Magnus Gertten Angelos Award of the Swedish Church
Fúsi Dagur Kári Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM Jury, Luebeck, 2015
Histoire de Judas Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2015 (Forum)
Homeland | Iraq Year Zero Abbas Fahdel Commendation of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2015
If I Ruled Jenni Kangasniemi, Aino Suni "Look At Me" Award of the Church Media Foundation, Oulu, 2015
Imena višne Branko Schmidt Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cottbus, 2015
Ixcanul Jayro Bustamante Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Kyiv, 2015 (Feature Films Competition)
Jigeumeun matgo geuttaeneun teullida Hong Sangsoo Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2015
La loi du marché Stéphane Brizé Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2015 (Competition)
La pasión de Judas David Pantaleón Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2015
Loin des hommes David Oelhoffen Andreas Award of the Norwegian Churches, Haugesund, 2015
L'orchestre de minuit Jérôme Cohen Olivar Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Montreal, 2015
Ma dar behesht Sina Ataeian Dena Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Locarno, 2015
Madres de los dioses Pablo Agüero Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Nyon, 2015
Mediterranea Jonas Carpignano Commendation of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2015
Mennesker bliver spist Eric Clausen The Danish Church Film Prize "Gabriel"
Mia madre Nanni Moretti Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2015
Mina Walking Yosef Baraki Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Zlín, 2015
Moskvich, My Love Aram Shabayan Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Yerevan, 2015
Ned Rifle Hal Hartley Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin, 2015 (Panorama)
Paradise Suite Joost van Ginkel Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Estonia, Tallinn, 2015
Pesn pesney Eva Neymann Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary, 2015
Sivas  Kaan Müdejci Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Yerevan, 2015
Sunrise Partho en-Gupta Commendation of the Interfilm Academy, Munich, 2015
Superwelt Karl Markovicz Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Miskolc, 2015
Taklub Brillante Mendoza Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes, 2015 (Un certain regard)
Taxi Jafar Panahi SIGNIS-WACC Human Rights Award, 2014
Taxi Jafar Panahi FILM DES JAHRES 2014 der Jury der Evangelischen Filmarbeit
Tišina Mujo Ursula Meier Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Oberhausen, 2015
Un instante en La Habana Guillermo Ivan Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Montreal, 2015
X+Y Morgan Matthews The Church of Sweden Youth Film Award
Ya tayr el tayer (The Idol) Hani Abu-Assad Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw, 2015

 

Church Film Awards 2010

   
 

Awards 2010 (chronological)

   
  Festival Awards
   
Saarbrücken 31st Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize
  Prize of the INTERFILM Jury
  Suicide Club
  by Olaf Saumer, Germany 2010
   
Berlin 60th International Film Festival 
  Ecumenical Award to a film in Competition
  Bal / Honig
  by Semih Kaplanoglu, Turkey/Germany 2010
   
  Ecumenical Award to a film in the Panorama:
  Kawasakiho Ruze / Kawasaki’s Rose
  by Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic
   
  Ecumenical Award to a film at the 40th Forum
  Aisheen / Still Alive in Gaza
  by Nicolas Wadimoff, Switzerland/Katar 2010
   
Fribourg 24ème Festival International de Films – Prix du Jury Œcuménique 
  Lola / Lola
  par Brillante Mendoza, Philippines 2009
   
Nyon 16th Film Festival  Visions du Réel
  Prize of the Interreligious Jury
  Miesten Vuoro / Steam of Life
  by Mika Hotakainen, Finland/Sweden 2010
   
Oberhausen 

56th International Short Film Days

  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  Mur i wieża / Mauer und Turm
  by Yael Bartana, Israel/The Netherlands/Poland 2009
   
  Commendation
  Electric Light Wonderland
  by Susanna Wallin, Great Britan 2009
   
Cannes 63ème  Festival International du Film
  36e Prix Oecuménique
  Des Hommes et de Dieux
  par Xavier Beauvois, France 2010
   
  Mention spéciale
  Another Year
  par Mike Leigh, Grande Bretagne 2010
   
  Mention spéciale
  Poetry
  par Lee Chang-Dong, Corée du Sud 2010
   
Zlin  50th International Film Festival for Children and Youth
  Ecumenical Award to a film for Children
  Indián / The Indian
 

by Ineke Houtman, The Netherlands 2009

 

  Ecumenical Award to a film for Youth
  Sebbe /Sebbe
  by Babak Najafi, Sweden 2010
   
München 28. Filmfest München - “One-Future-Preis” 
  der Interfilm-Akademie München
  Lo Spazio Bianco /The White Space / L’espace blanc
  by Francesca Comencini, Italien 2009
   
  Lobende Erwähnungen:
  Natarang
  by Ravi Jadhav. Indien  2010
   
  Cleveland Versus Wallstreet
  by Jean-Stéphane Bron, Schweiz/Frankreich 2010
   
  Ehrenpreis / Honorary Award
  Peter Fleischmann , France/Germany
   
Karlovy Vary  45th International Film Festival - Ecumenical Award 
  Drugoje Něbo /Another Sky / Un autre Ciel
  by Dmitrij Mamulija, Russia 2010
   
  Commendation:
  Hitler à Hollywood /Hitler in Hollywood
  by Frédéric Sojcher, Belgium/France/Italy 2010
   
Yerevan 7th Golden Apricot Festival - Ecumenical Award
  Mi nayir hayelun / Don’t Look in the Mirror 
  by Suren Babayan, Armenia 2009
   
  Commendation:
  Kak ja provel etim letom / How I Ended This Summer
  by Aleksej Popogrebsky, Russia 2010
   
Locarno 63rd  Festival Internazionale del Film - Prix Oecuménique
 

Morgen

by Marian Crisan, France/Romania/Hungary 2010

   
  Commendations:
  Han Jia / Winter Vacation
  by Li Hongqi, China 2010
   
  Karamay
  by Xu Xin, China 2010
   
Montréal 34ème Festival des Films du Monde - Prix Œcuménique
  Adem / Oxygène / Oxigen
  by Hans VanNuffel, Belgium/The Netherlands, 2010
   
  Commendation
  Das Lied in mir / The Day I was not born
  by Florian Cossen, Germany/Argentina 2010
   
Riga 20th International Film Forum “Arsenals”
  INTERFILM Award in the International Fiction Competition:
  The Temptation of St. Tony
  by Veiko ÖUNPUU, Estonia/Sweden/Finland 2009
   
  Commendation:
  Pál Adrienn
  by Àgnes Kocsis, Hungary/Netherlands/France/Austria, 2010
   
  INTERFILM Award in the Baltic Competition (Documentary)
  How Are You, Rudolf Ming?
  by Robert Rubīns, Latvia, 2010
   
  Commendation:
  Disco and Atomic War
  by Jaak Kilmi, Estonia 2009
   
Warsaw 26th Warsaw Film Festival –  1st Ecumenical Award
  De la infancia / On Childhood
  by Carlos Carrera, Mexico 2010
   
  Commendation:
  Periferic / Outbound
  by Bogdan George Apetri, Romania 2010
   
Kyiv 40th International Film Festival MOLODIST
  Ecumenical Award in the Feature Film Competition:
  Die Fremde / When We Leave
  by Feo Aladag, Germany 2010
   
  Ecumenical Award in the competition of first professional short films
  Der kleine Nazi / A Little Nazi
  by Petra Luschow, Germany 2010
   
  Commendation:
  Ostanniy Lyst /The Last Letter
  by Yuriv Kovaliov, Ukraine 2010
   
Leipzig  53. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm 
  Ecumenical Award
  Na pólnoc od Kalabrii / The North of Calabria
  by Marcin Sauter, Poland 2009
   
Lübeck  52. Nordische Filmtage / 52nd Nordic Film Days
  Church Film Prize of the INTERFILM jury
  Between Two Fires
  by Agnieszka Lukasiak, Sweden 2010
   
  Commendation:
  Mamma Gógó
  by Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, Iceland 2010
   
Cottbus 20th Film Festival des Osteuropäischen Films - Ecumenical Award
  Pál Adrienn / Adrienn Pál
  by Ágnes Kocsis, Hungary/The Netherlands/Austria/France 2010
   
Mannheim-Heidelberg  59th International Film Festival - Ecumenical Award
  Hold om mig / Hold Me Tight
  by Kaspar Munk, Denmark 2010
   
Bratislava 12th International Film Festival 
  Ecumenical Jury this year suspended
   
  Additional Church Film Awards
   
Göteborg 33rd International Film Festival - The Church of Sweden Award
  Sebbe/Sebbe
  by Bajak Najafi, Sweden, 2010
   
Malmö 27th International Children and Young People's Film Festival
  The Church of Sweden's Youth Film Award
  Vegas-As heavy as as rock festival
  by Gunnar Vikene, Norway 2009
   
Oulu 29th International Children and Youth Film Festival
  Look at me... Award of The Church Media Foundation
  Omaa Luokkaansa / Own Class
  by Iiris Härmä, Finland 2010
   
Denmark The Danish Church Film Award ”Gabriel” 2010
  Superbror / Superbrothers
  by Birger Larsen, Denmark 2009