Prizes of the Ecumenical Jury

A jury is considered independent when its members are not selected by the Berlinale. A number of independent juries award prizes at the Berlinale. The high level of quality and diversity of the films are an invitation for critical examination and discerning judgment that opens up new directions. Accordingly the independent juries award their prizes along different criteria, in accordance to the special intention linked to each award.

PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY

Since 1992, the international film organisations of the Protestant and Catholic Churches - INTERFILM and SIGNIS - have been represented by the Ecumenical Jury. It consists of six members and awards its main prize to a film entered in the Competition. It also awards two other prizes, both worth 2,500 Euros, one to a film from the Panorama and one to a film in the Forum.

The prizes go to directors who have succeeded in portraying actions or human experiences that are in keeping with the Gospels, or in sensitising viewers to spiritual, human or social values.

PRIZE WINNER COMPETITION 2015

El botón de nácar

by Patricio Guzmán

PRIZE WINNER PANORAMA 2015

Ned Rifle

by Hal Hartley

PRIZE WINNER FORUM 2015

Histoire de Judas

by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

Members of the Jury 2015:

Lukáš Jirsa

Gustavo Andujar

Gregg Brekke

Piet Halma

Dr. Inge Kirsner

Joachim Opahle