wfn.org | Title: WCC film wins international festival prize

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 World Council of Churches 7 News flash
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12/11/2003 - nf-03-27

 WCC film wins international festival prize

 A film about Sierra Leone produced by the World Council of
Churches (WCC)
 for Danish television won a prize as the best film in the
inter-religious
 dialogue category at the International Festival of Cinema and
Religion in
 Trento, Italy.

 The film, "Roots of violence", was directed by Anders Laugesen
for the WCC
 and the Ecumenical Council in Denmark. In it, we hear victims
and
 perpetrators of atrocities committed during Sierra Leone's
civil war,
 Muslims and Christians, talk about their experiences of
violence and how
 they perceived God during the war.

 "Roots of violence" and the other awarded films will be shown
in Assisi,
 29 November 2003; in Jerusalem, in December; and in Kairouan,
Tunisia, in
 June 2004.

 More information on the video and order forms are available on
our
 website:
 http://wcc-coe.org/wcc/news/videos/roots-of-violence.html 

 International Festival of Cinema and Religion inTrento
website:
 http://www.religionfilm.com/gb_index.htm 

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