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  • 2 Aug 2011
    Films for a (social) change

    The Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh is screening three fine movies as part of this year's Festival of Spirituality and Peace, which runs from 6-9 August 2011 - 'Getting Out', 'Bloody Sunday' and 'Pray the Devil Back'.

  • 29 May 2011
    Bible links literacy, film and late learning in Kenya

    A film about Kimani Ng'ang'a Maruge, an 84-year-old man who enrolled in primary school in 2003 so he could learn to read the Bible, has inspired the creation of an educational charity for unprivileged children around the world.

  • 30 Nov 2010
    Christmas lights give way to radical Jesus film in Hoylake

    A community group in Hoylake, Wirral, will this Christmas be projecting the radical 1964 Pasolini film about the life of Christ onto a church in the town’s High Street.

  • 8 Nov 2010
    New film series highlights plight of migrants in Mexico

    Mexican actor and producer Gael García Bernal has launched a new series of films depicting the plight of irregular migrants in Mexico.

  • 29 Oct 2010
    Pacific climate change film wins Leipzig revolution prize

    A film about 400 people on a Pacific atoll threatened by climate change, has won a prize commemorating East Germany's 1989 "peaceful revolution".

  • 30 Jul 2010
    New website explores the relationship of religion and film

    Interfilm North America, part of a global network which looks at the relationship between spirituality and modern movies, has launched its new website.

  • 22 Apr 2008
    Unravelling blood, oil and prophets

    The bludgeoning conclusion of Paul Thomas Anderson's much-lauded, Oscar-nominated film "There Will Be Blood," which has recently been released on DVD, features a preacher forced to renounce his faith in God and admit charlatanry. Spencer Dew investigates.

  • 14 Mar 2008
    Indonesian churches criticise far-right anti-Muslim film

    The Council of Churches in Indonesia has joined calls for a controversial Dutch film about Islam made by far-right politician Geert Wilders not to be shown. In the past he called for the Qur'an to be banned.

  • 7 Feb 2007
    New film highlights global injustice impacting Africa

    International development agency Christian Aid and leading British Muslim magazine, Q-News, have teamed up to host a special screening of Bamako, a powerful film about the devastating effects of World Bank and IMF policies imposed on African countries, at the Curzon Cinema, Mayfair, London on 12 February 2007.