“Holy Week Cine” shows films related to Holy Week
This is shown under the motto “Holy Week Cine”. Innsbruck Leokino from April 10 to 14, films “which, in one way or another, deal with the mystery of Holy Week”. The project, in collaboration with the Diocese of Innsbruck is organized, wants to “follow the traces of hope in today’s world,” said a broadcast on Tuesday. Multiple award-winning cinematic works from the past decades will be shown. After the screening, the Innsbruck theologian Jozef Niewiadomski invites a guest to talk.
“During Holy Week, elementary themes of human life intensify: rise and fall, betrayal and forgiveness, dying and living,” says the announcement from the Innsbruck Diocese. Holy Week combines the fascination with violence and exclusion with the belief that there is also an overcoming of these destructive forces.
Five Day Program
The “Holy Week Cine” shows begin daily at 8 p.m. starting on Palm Sunday. The first is “A Black Jesus” by Luca Lucchesi (April 10). In Siculiana, in southern Italy, a statue of a black Jesus is venerated. But 1,000 refugees also live in a dilapidated hotel in the impoverished village. The villagers and migrants do not speak to each other until the arrival of 19-year-old Edward from Ghana stirs up Siculiana’s inertia. Following the film, Angelika Stegmayr, head of the “Bildung.gestalten” department of the Innsbruck Diocese, will be a guest.
On April 11, the Irish-British film drama “You’re dead on Sunday” is on the program. In the film by director John Michael McDonagh, an unknown man announces to the British country priest James Lavelle at the confessional that he will fight him after a week has passed. He had been abused for years by a priest who had died in the meantime and wanted to set an example with an innocent person. Fiona Zöhrer, Head of Communications for the Diocese of Innsbruck, will be a guest at the discussion about the film.
The German drama film “The Ninth Day” by director Volker Schlöndorff tells the story of clerics who were critical of the regime and the persecution by the National Socialists. Guest of the discussion on April 12 is the religious scholar and head of the “House of Encounters” of the Diocese of Innsbruck, Magdalena Modler-El Abdaoui.
In “Corpus Christi” by director Jan Komasa, the 20-year-old prisoner Daniel finds his way to God and wants to become a priest. Because of his crimes, he is denied this career. The rector of the KPH Edith Stein, Petra Steinmair-Pösel, will be the conversation partner of moderator Niewiadomski after the screening on April 13th.
The end of the “Holy Week” will be on April 14th with the film “Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo”. In 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini shot his work about the work, death and resurrection of Jesus according to the Gospel of Matthew with exquisite pictures and expressive amateur actors. After the film, no discussion is planned for this last screening.
(Information: www.leokino.at)
Source: catpress