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Gaëlle Courtens is a journalist specialising in religious matters. As News Editor of the Swiss monthly “Voce evangelica” and as radio reporter for the religious programs of the Italian speaking Swiss Public Broadcaster RSI, her main topics are: ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, religious freedom, secularity, religion and politics, migrations, human rights. Before that she served as Press Officer of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy for many years. She holds a master degree in Italian Language and Literature, Sociology, Political Science at the University of Zurich (CH).

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Current issues

At the Oulu's Children's and Youth International Film Festival 2024 the Church Media Foundation presented its "Look at Me..." Award to Nellie Rajala for her film "The Elf Ring".
Sascha Keilholz, director of the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, in his greetings at the Ecumenical Reception reflects the actual political challenges after the US elections and the threats to democracy.

Events

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

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