MAN AND RELIGION

FOCUS PROGRAMME
GOD BLESS YOU Bóg zapłać
Jakub Radej
Fiction / Poland / 2014 / 11’
“I have not come to call the righteous,
but sinners” Matthew 9:13
A young cleric during a holly mass gets
a letter from one of the female believ
ers, which reminds him of a recent sin.
He must make the right decision to be
able to follow a spiritual path. Does
one have to sin to become a saint? A
story told without dialogues.

AND THOU SHALT LOVE
Chaim Elbaum
Fiction / Israel / 2007 / 28’
Ohad, a young orthodox Jew, is torn
between the man he loves and god.
Who will he choose?
 

DEATHBED: THE MUSICAL
Liat Har-gil
Animation / Israel / 2011 / 06’
An old man sits in a nursing home,
waiting to die. A devoutly religious
man, he firmly believes he will receive
his due reward in the afterlife. While re
flecting on his own virtues and thinking
of the world to come, a nurse, nearing
the end of a long, arduous shift, brings
his breakfast.

ALLAH IS GREAT
Andrea Iannetta
Fiction / India / 2012 / 25’04’’
Frank Asmas, a Danish engineer, has
to reach Nairobi, where he is supposed
to give a speech at an important
conference. He learns that the car des
ignated to take him to the airport, has
not come due to political protests in
the region. In its arrives Salim, a local
taxi driver. Frank and Salim belong to
completely different worlds, and this
leads them to mutual incomprehension...

MERCHANT OF THE SACRED
ACCESSORIES
Svētlietu tirgotājs
Irina Masa
Latvia / 1965 / 1’31’’
An episode from the newsreel series
Soviet Latviaunmasking a man who
made “dirty money” with the illegal
merchandise of the sacred accessories.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Joe Tucker
Animation / UK / 2007 / 11’
Graham lives with his tyrannical
Mother and their pet Jackdaw in a
Christian bookshop, trapped in the
seedy outskirts of a decaying nowhere
town. He and his Mother both love
God, but in very different ways. Will
Graham consummate his unholy
fantasy and can it live up to
his expectations?

APOSTLE
Juhani Koivumäki
Experimental, video / Finland /
2015 / 4’24’’
The Apostleis a metaphorical short
film about the radical ideas of Jesus of
Nazareth, which are facing new forms
of interpretations under the pressure of
constantly changing needs of society
and institutions.