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  • 15 Jun 2013
    Back from the brink: combatting violent extremism

    A critical modern issue affecting the global family is the rise of violent extremism and the roots and outlets of its ideologies.

  • 4 Nov 2012
    Scots charity film in the running for Oscar success

    A powerful new documentary film about the work of international charity Mary’s Meals, 'Child 31', had its British public premiere today.

  • 9 Aug 2012
    Africa in Motion Film Festival: 'Our Friend Death'

    Three films, one continent, three different takes on death, dying and loss. The Africa in Motion Film Festival, in collaboration with the Festival of Spirituality and Peace and the Edinburgh University Global Health Academy, is presenting a trilogy of films from Ghana, Senegal and Cameroon - plus one native Scottish short - linked by the challenging theme of 'our friend death'.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 4 Mar 2010
    Nazis massacred: Tarantino's revenge fantasy

    Like some scriptural stories, Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated film 'Inglourious Basterds' is an extravagant revenge fantasy-cum-joke. But who's laughing, asks Mark Bilby, why and to what affect?

  • 16 Feb 2010
    Avatar: thrills and contradictions

    Even without the 3D effects, Avatar is still an impressive film, says Hannah Kowszun. However there is a bitter irony in a film which extols the virtues of simple living and condemns greed becoming the highest-grossing blockbuster of all time.

  • 28 Apr 2009
    In The Loop... Fake Hawk Down?

    Imagine a world of soundbite politics where the machinery of power is operated by vacillating professional politicians, out of their depth, jumping to the whims of ruthless, feral spin doctors. That, says Alan Wilson, is the film satire In The Loop

  • 8 Mar 2007
    Emerging church, gays, land, films... and corrections

    There's exciting new material going up on the site all the time.

  • 8 Mar 2007
    Going to the movies, theologically