| 13th RELIGION TODAY FILMFESTIVAL: SELECTED WORKS
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Trento, 26 August 2010 The selections for the 13th edition of the Religion Today Film Festival have concluded. The selection committee has accepted 57 films from the 195 which were submitted to the competition. Here follows the list according to category. FEATURE FILMS: "Apocalisse", Francesco Dal Bosco, Italy "Eyes Wide Open", Haim Tabakman, Israel/Germany "Freedom is within Us. Popieluszko", Rafal Wieczynski, Poland "Halakeh", Avigail Sperber, Israel "Her Dream's Day", Mehrdad Khoshbakht, Iran "How are you?", Özlem Akovaligil, Turkey "Lourdes", Jessica Hausner, Austria/France "Mekael", Jamshid Bahmani, Iran "Now and Forever", Artur Pilarczyk, Poland "Temple of Soul", Mohammad Dor Manesh, Iran "The 13th Day", Ian & Dominic Higgins, UK "The Soil and the People", Sisir Sahana, India SHORT FILMS: "Jesusito de mi vida", Jesús Perez-Miranda, Spain "Kain", Kristof Hoornaert, Belgium "Messiah", Lavi Vanounou, Israel "Music Diptych: the young Composer's Jouney and the Score Soli Deo Gloria", Aleksandr Stolyarov, Ukraine "Patrick's Kingdom", Maria Peters, The Netherlands "Persian Lullaby", Keren Hakak, Israel "Salim", Tommaso Landucci, Italy "The Spring which flow", Reza Shahmoradi, Iran DOCUMENTARIES: "A Glimmering Light", Maxim Mihaltsov, Belarus "Amèn", Stefano Cattini, Italy "Attraverso il muro. Missionario in Terra Santa", Giacomo Prestinari, Italy "Billy Graham down under", Mark Edmondson, Australia "Candid Islam", Tomaso Brucato; Daniela Marchetto, Italy "Charokpuja", Shahiduzzaman Badal, Bangladesh "Courageous against Marx and Mielke", Gerold Hofmann, Germany "Flowers in the Desert", José Álvarez, Mexico "Il viaggio di Gesù", Sergio Basso, Italy "In the Shadow of Buddha", Heather Kessinger, India/USA "La grazia della parola", Gianni Barcelloni Corte, Italy "La retta via", Roberta Cortella; Marco Leopardi, Italy "La Strada di De Gasperi", Elena Negriolli, Italy "Mazel Tov", Mischka Popp, Thomas Bergmann, Germany "No Greater Love", Michael Whyte, UK "One year with Soheib Bencheikh", Michèle Bourgeot, France "Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in their Time and Ours", Jacob Bender, Usa/Spain "Prezzemolo, sensa pile sensa curént elètrica", Sandro Gastinelli; Marzia Pellegrino, Italy "Professione missionario", Mario Ghiretti, Italy "Radical Disciple: the Story of Father Pfleger", Bob Hercules, USA "Religion.com", Ron Ofer; Yohai Hakak, Israel "Rest in the Time", Eberhard Görner, Germany "Santu Jorgi, su mori", Simone Contu, Italy "Sempre più in là: al cuore della Mongolia", Carlo De Biase; Paola De Biase, Italy "Sunday School", Joanna Vasquez Arong, Philippines/Zambia "The Battle for Life", Segev Cohen, Israel "The Disciple", Stefan Kolbe; Chris Wrigth, Germany "The Fire Within: Jews in the Amazonian Rainforest", Lorry Salcedo Mitrani, Peru "The Last Rite", Gina Valle, Canada "The Miracle Year", Simcha Lev, Israel "The Way of Tao", Yves de Peretti, France "Tractor Family", Jamshid Mojadadi, Iran "Veiled Voices", Brigid Maher, USA "Via della Croce", Serena Nono, Italy "Voices from El-Sayed", Oded Adomi Leshem, Israel "When a Line of Light shines", Shahriar Pourseyedian, Iran "Zen and War", Alexander Oey, The Netherlands INTERNATIONAL JURY NOMINATIONS The international jury of the 13th Religion Today Filmfestival will confer the following awards: BEST FILM Freedom is within Us. Popieluszko | Halakeh | Lourdes | Mekael | Now and forever | The 13th Day BEST SHORT FILM Jesusito de mi vida | Kain | Music Diptych: The Young Composer's Journey and The Score "Soli Deo Gloria" | Persian Lullaby | Salim BEST DOCUMENTARY Billy Graham Down Under | Courageous against Marx and Mielke | Il viaggio di Gesù | In the Shadow of Buddha | No Greater Love | Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours | Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger | Religion.com | The Miracle Year | The Way of Tao | Veiled Voices | When a Line of Light shines | Zen and War RELIGION TODAY AWARD "IN THE SPIRIT OF FAITH" (All the Above Films) In addition, the following special prizes will be awarded: SIGNIS Award BEST TELEVISION FILM (All Television Films) JOURNEYS OF FAITH. JOURNEYS OF HOPE - Special Jury of Young People from Valsugana How are you? | Lourdes | Mazel Tov | Prezzemolo, sensa pile sensa curént elètrica | Santu Jorgi, su mori | The Fire Within: Jews in the Amazonian Rainforest | The Miracle Year | Tractor Family DIALOGUE AND PEACE - Inter-religious Jury from the city of Trento Attraverso il muro. Missionario in Terra Santa | Il viaggio di Gesù | One year with Soheib Bencheikh | Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours | Professione missionario | Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger | Zen and War RELIGION AND SOCIETY - Special Jury of Journalists from the city of Trento Amèn | Billy Graham Down Under | Courageous against Marx and Mielke | Freedom is within Us. Popieluszko | La Strada di De Gasperi | Religion.com | Via della Croce WOMEN AND RELIGIONS - Special Jury from Arco Candid Islam | Her dream's day | In the Shadow of Buddha | No Greater Love | Rest in the Time | Sunday School | Veiled Voices FRATERNITY - Special Jury of Nomadelfia Patrick's Kingdom | Salim | Sempre più in là: al cuore della Mongolia | The Disciple | The Spring which flow | Voices from El-Sayed | When a Line of Light shines YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMUNICATION - Special Jury of Students FSC Università Pontificia Salesiana Apocalisse | Eyes Wide Open | Halakeh | Jesusito de mi vida | Mekael | Messiah | Music Diptych: The Young Composer's Jouney and The Score "Soli Deo Gloria" SCHOOLS AND COMMUNICATION - Special Jury of Students from the city of Bozen A Glimmering Light | Kain | La retta via | Now and forever | Persian Lullaby | The Battle for Life RITES AND BELIEFS - Special Jury of Trento Charokpuja | Flowers in the Desert | La grazia della parola | Temple of Soul | The 13th Day | The Last Rite | The Soil and the People | The Way of Tao |
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| THE 2010 LIVING WORKSHOP
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Join a great interreligious experience! As part of the 13th edition of the Religion Today Film Festival, which will take place from 8 to 21 October 2010 in several Italian cities (Trento, Rome, Bolzano/Bozen, Bassano, Nomadelfia with a preview in Teggiano Policastro on October 2nd), a LIVING WORKSHOP will be held. Since 1997 Religion Today has been the first itinerant film festival dedicated to dialogue between religions. The main event is the annual film competition open to feature films, documentaries and short films on religious subjects. As part of the overall theme “Exploring the differences”, every year the organization chooses to focus on a different perspective, and the 2010 theme will be “Journeys of Faith. Journeys of Hope”. Alongside the competition, Religion Today organizes the "living workshop" involving people working in cinema and cinematographic experts of different faiths and nationalities, welcomed to a hostel where they spend three days including moments of reflection, time for prayer (according to the various religious groups) and mealtimes. The workshop represents an occasion of mutual understanding as well as platform for exchanging ideas and sharing projects. This year the workshop will take place in Rome, from 18 to 20 October, with a rich program of academic study seminars, interreligious and intercultural meetings. If you have any questions or require clarification, please contact the following e-mail address: segreteria@religionfilm.com |
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| XII RELIGION TODAY FILMFESTIVAL (2009): SELECTED WORKS
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Trento, 28 August 2009 The selections for the 12th edition of the Religion Today Filmfestival have concluded. The selection committee has accepted 57 film from the 168 which were submitted to thecompetition. Here follows the list according to category. FEATURE FILMS: Across the River by Abbas Ahmadi Motlagh - Iran Al-Hamza and Al-Abbas by Seif Sheikh Najib - Sudan Chaturanga by Suman Mukhopadhyay - India Doubt by John Patrick Shanley - U.S.A. Every night, Loneliness by Rasoul Sadrameli - Iran Il Papa nella tempesta. Paolo VI by Fabrizio Costa - Italy Music Box by Farzad Motamen - Iran Narciso dietro ai cannoni davanti ai muli by Marcello and Dario Baldi - Italy Ovunque miracoli by Salvatore Metastasio - Italy Pablo de Tarso. El ultimo viaje by Pablo Moreno - Spain Vienna da Fuscaldo - la madre di San Francesco di Paola by Fabio Marra - Italy SHORT FILMS: And Thou Shalt Love by Chaim Elbaum - Israel Best funerals in the World by Ute Wegmann - Germany Cracks by Erez Hadad - Israel God sees by Reza Jamali - Iran Lazhar by Bahri Ben Yamed - Tunisia Separation by Tsofnat David - Israel The Reed-Flute Says… by Damlasu Temizel Kiziklioglu - Turkey DOCUMENTARIES: A Jude named Ishai by Krzysztof Zurowski and Julita Woloszynska - Poland A Nun's New Habit by Robyn Hughan - Australia Anelito di pace - Ritratto di Don Tonino Bello by Sergio Spina - Italy Baraka Paths by Manoël Pénicaud e Khamis Mesbah - France Cardinal Journet. Between Light and Darkness by Jean-Yves Fischbach - France Deir Mar Musa, sul cammino di Abramo by Paolo Comoglio - Italy Diario di un curato di montagna by Stefano Saverioni - Italy Emozioni dall'Apurimac by Carlo and Paola De Biase - Italy Evangelization through the Lens by Tomasz Bardorsch - Poland Family on the Edge by Gilad Goldschmidt - Israel Filioque by Enrico Mazzi - Italy/ Serbia Gevald! by Yohai Hakak and Ron Hofer - Israel Hair India by Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi - Italy Her Mate's Boyfriend by Przemek Mlynczyk - Poland I doni del Signore by Lars Gehrmann - Italy Il colore dell'amore by Maria Amata Calò - Italy Imparare dal mondo by Silvio Cattani - Italy Jerusalem: Center of the World by Andrew Goldberg - U.S.A. Jesus on Ursynow by Agnieszka Gomułka - Poland Johannes Calvin by Werner Köhne and André Schäfer - Germany Kindness, a letter from Tibet by Clementine Ederveen - Holland Latter-Day Saints by Leonor Noivo - Portugal Leaving the Fold by Eric R. Scott - Canada Lourdes, La Storia by Nietta La Scala - Italy Memory of a Woman by Lassaad Oueslati - Tunisia New Muslim Cool by Jennifer M. Taylor - U.S.A. Non tacere. Don Roberto e la scuola 725 by Fabio Grimaldi - Italy Rabbi Firer: A Reason to Question by Amit Goren - Israel Soul Tripping by Michael Greenspan - Israel The Lolo's Myth by Wong Tin Shing and Lui Lai Li - Hong Kong The Promise of Freedom by Daniel Knoop - Germany The Qur'an by Antony Thomas - UK The Rebellious Son by Shoshi Greenfield - Israel The Sacred Dancer by Diego D'Innocenzo - Italy The Way of the Warrior by Andreas Pichler - Germany Tova's World by Michal Bukojemski - Poland Wishing life angelic by Elena Lobacheva-Dvoreckaya - Russia Zen' s Way by Law Suk Yi - Hong Kong Zorvan by Hassan Naghashi - Iran INTERNATIONAL JURY NOMINATIONS The international jury of the 12th Religion Today Filmfestival will confer the following awards: RELIGION TODAY AWARD "IN THE SPIRIT OF FAITH" BEST FILM Across the River by Abbas Ahmadi Motlagh Chaturanga by Suman Mukhopadhyay Doubt by John Patrick Shanley Every Night, Loneliness by Rasoul Sadrameli Narciso. Dietro ai cannoni davanti ai muli by Marcello Baldi e Dario Baldi BEST SHORT FILM And Thou shalt love by Chaim Elbaum Best Funerals in the World by Ute Wegmann Cracks by Erez Hadad God sees by Reza Jamali The Reed-Flute says… by Damlasu Temizel Kiziklioglu BEST DOCUMENTARY A Nun's new Habit by Robyn Hughan Baraka Paths by Manoël Pénicaud and Khamis Mesbah Diario di un curato di montagna by Stefano Saverioni Family on the Edge by Gilad Goldschmidt Gevald! by Yohai Hakak e Ron Hofer Hair India by Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi Her Mate's Boyfriend by Przemek Mlynczyk Kindness. A Letter from Tibet by Clementine Ederveen Leaving the Fold by Eric R. Scott New Muslim Cool by Jennifer M. Taylor The sacred Dancer by Diego D'Innocenzo In addition, the following special prizes will be awarded: SIGNIS Award BEST TELEVISION FILM BORN FROM ABOVE * Special jury of Young people from the city of Trento * Chaturanga by Suman Mukhopadhyay Diario di un curato di montagna by Stefano Saverioni Her Mate's Boyfriend by Przemek Mlynczyk New Muslim Cool by Jennifer M. Taylor Ovunque Miracoli. Il Taumaturgo ed il Compositore scettico by Salvatore Metastasio Pablo de Tarso. El ultimo viaje by Pablo Moreno INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE * Inter-religious jury Trento – Don Silvio Franch * A Nun's new Habit by Robyn Hughan Across the River by Abbas Ahmadi Motlagh Deir Mar Musa, sul cammino di Abramo by Paolo Comoglio Jerusalem: Center of the World by Andrew Goldberg Narciso. Dietro ai cannoni davanti ai muli by Marcello Baldi and Dario Baldi Tova's World by Michal Bukojemski JOURNEYS OF FAITH * Special jury Friends of Religion Today * Baraka Paths by Manoël Pénicaud and Khamis Mesbah Emozioni dall'Apurimac by Carlo De Biase and Paola De Biase Evangelization through the Lens by Tomasz Bardorsch Imparare dal mondo by Silvio Cattani Latter-Day Saints by Leonor Noivo The Lolo's Myth by Wong Tin Shing and Lui Lai Lin PARENTS AND CHILDREN * Special jury Lisignago * Cracks by Erez Hadad Family on the Edge by Gilad Goldschmidt Filioque by Enrico Mazzi Music Box by Farzad Motamen Separation by Tsofnat David The rebellious Son by Shoshi Greenfield Vienna da Fuscaldo. La madre di San Francesco di Paola by Fabio Marra YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMUNICATION * Special jury of Students FSC Università Pontificia Salesiana * And Thou shalt love by Chaim Elbaum Best Funerals in the World by Ute Wegmann Doubt by John Patrick Shanley Every Night, Loneliness by Rasoul Sadrameli Kindness. A Letter from Tibet by Clementine Ederveen Lazhar by Bahri Ben Yamed The Reed-Flute Says… by Damlasu Temizel Kiziklioglu COMPLEX IDENTITIES * Special jury Trentino Alto Adige/Südtirol * A Jude named Ishai by Krzysztof Zurowski and Julita Woloszynska Hair India by Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi Leaving the Fold by Eric R. Scott Memory of a Woman by Lassaad Oueslati Soul Tripping by Michael Greenspan The Way of the Warrior by Andreas Pichler RELIGION AND SOCIETY * Special jury of Journalists from the city of Trento * Gevald! by Yohai Hakak e Ron Hofer Johannes Calvin by Werner Köhne and André Schäfer Non Tacere. Don Roberto e la Scuola 725 by Fabio Grimaldi The Promise of Freedom by Daniel Knoop The Qur'an by Antony Thomas Zen's Way by Law Suk Yi RITES AND BELIEFS * Special jury Fraternity of Nomadelfia * Al-Hamza and Al-Abbas by Seif Sheikh Najib God sees by Reza Jamali Lourdes. La Storia by Nietta La Scala The sacred Dancer by Diego D'innocenzo Wishing Life angelic by Elena Lobacheva-Dvoreckaya Zorvan by Hassan Naghashi PORTRAITS * Special jury Valle dei Laghi – Massimo Prevedello * Anelito di pace. Ritratto di Don Tonino Bello by Sergio Spina Cardinal Journet. Between Light and Darkness by Jean-Yves Fischbach I doni del Signore by Lars Gehrmann Il colore dell'amore by Maria Amata Calò Il Papa nella tempesta. Paolo Vi by Fabrizio Costa Jesus on Ursynow by Agnieszka Gomułka Rabbi Firer: A Reason to question by Amit Goren |
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| The 2009 living Workshop
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Join a great interreligious experience! - As part of the twelfth edition of the Religion Today Film Festival, which will take place from 14 to 24 October in 5 Italian cities (Trento, Rome, Bolzano/Bozen, Bassano, Nomadelfia), a LIVING WORKSHOP will be held. Since 1997 Religion Today has been the first itinerant film festival dedicated to dialogue between religions. The main event is the annual film competition open to feature films, documentaries and short films on religious subjects. As part of the overall theme “Exploring the differences”, every year the organization chooses to focus on a different perspective, and the 2009 theme will be “Born from above. New life in faith”. Alongside the competition, Religion Today organizes the "living workshop" involving people working in cinema and cinematographic experts of different faiths and nationalities, welcomed to a hostel where they spend three days including moments of reflection, time for prayer (according to the various religious groups) and mealtimes. The workshop represents an occasion of mutual understanding as well as platform for exchanging ideas and sharing projects. This year the workshop will take place in Rome, from 19 to 21 October, with a rich program of academic study seminars, interreligious and intercultural meetings. If you have any questions or require clarification, please contact the following e-mail address: segreteria@religionfilm.com |
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e-mail segreteria: segreteria@religionfilm.com - e-mail ufficio stampa: religion.today@gmail.com