Religion Today Film Festival
We loved each other so much. Religions and gender relations
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The theme for the nineteenth edition of Religion Today Film Festival focuses on the relationship between men and women and does it with a picture of Adam and Eve in a contemporary version and a tribute to Ettore Scola.
Adam and Eve, the serpent, a split apple, the lost garden, the compromised harmony.
The image of a "marriage crisis" gives sense to this edition that (like the previous ones) deals with issues and challenges of burning relevance. The title " We loved each other so much. Religions and gender relations” summarizes the program for 2016, continuing a line of investigation which is important for the Festival: the image of women and their status in various religious contexts is in fact a section of the Festival every year.
53 films in competition - from 26 different countries – will deal with the theme of the year and social scientists, theologians of various religions will draw on this theme, and also exceptional testimonials as Ruth Colian and Sahraa Karimi. The former was the first ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman to found a political party and to run for the Israeli parliament in 2015; the latter is an activist for equality and the first Afghan woman with a doctorate in the field of cinema.
In the panel of judges there will also be a "legend" as Aruna Vasudev, the "mother of the Asian cinema"; the inauguration of the year's theme will be interpreted by director Alina Marazzi and by the "pop" theologian Brunetto Salvarani.
Furthermore, the themes of dialogue and peace, migration, law, the relationship between churches and civil society are also crucial for the Festival as usual.
The Festival will close on Monday, October 17, 2016 in Merano, Urania Meran, Via Ortwein 6. In this multilingual and multicultural land, the evening will focus on religions and on the change in the German cinema, with the screening of the film of 2015 The Virgin Obsession (Der Jungfrauenwahn) by Güner Yasemin Balci.
organization: Religion Today Film Festival
