AN INTERFAITH WEEKEND OF FILM

February 2, 3, 4, 2008   Sat., Sun., Mon. afternoons

Salt Lake Public Library, Main Auditorium

210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City

All films are free and open to the public

Join us for an eclectic religious experience, a sampling of traditions via cinematic vision.

Nine film screenings engage spiritual belief, practice, culture, or experience from the

ethereal to the serious to the comedic. Three films will be screened each afternoon,

accompanied by a brief introduction from an expert in one faith tradition. 

An Interfaith Weekend of Film is sponsored by the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable,

with support from the SLC Film Center and Moonstone.  This weekend opens

Interfaith Week 2008 -- a plethora of intriguing interfaith events, February 4-10, 2008. 

For all Interfaith Week events and details, see www.utahfaiths.org/slc

MAIN AUDITORIUM, SLC Public Library
FEB. 2  SATURDAY   1:30 p.m. -- 6 p.m.

1:30 p.m. -- "Chronos"   . (Ron Fricke 1985)
        A whirlwind visual tour of spiritual sites and sights interacting with light and sky,
        eventually joined by an unfolding stream of humanity ever in motion.

2:15 p.m. -- Comments on Buddhism, from Diane Musho Hamilton

2:30 p.m.--  "Little Buddha"  (Bernardo Bertolucci 1994)
The search for a reincarnated Lama leads to a child in Seattle while evoking visions of the ancient story of
young prince Siddhartha (Keano Reeves) who lived in 500 BCE.

4:30 p.m. -- "Toward the Within"  (Dead Can Dance 1994)
        Mysticism through music, ethereal sounds and melodies from ancient or world cultures
        are performed by members of an experimental band who use musical trance states.

MAIN AUDITORIUM, SLC Public Library
FEB. 3   SUNDAY   12 p.m. -- 5 p.m.
 

12:10 p.m.  --"West Bank Story" . (Ari Sandel 2005)
        A musical comedy about David, an Israeli, and Fatima, a Palestinian--who fall in love

        amid the animosity between their families' dueling falafel stands in the West Bank.
12:30 p.m. -- Comments about Judaism from Dr. Laurence Loeb, UU
 

1:00 p.m. -- "The Frisco Kid"  (Robert Aldrich 1979) 
        A naive Rabbi (Gene Wilder) embarks on a journey across 1860s America to find a
        new home in San Francisco, is adopted by a benevolent outlaw (Harrison Ford).

3 p.m. -- "Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam" (Auteur 2005) 
        A PBS documentary explores similarities and differences in beliefs and practices between Islam, Christianity
and Judaism--the Abrahamic faiths and their histories, conflicts, fundamentalisms and pluralisms.
 

MAIN AUDITORIUM, SLC Public Library

FEB. 4 MONDAY   1 p.m. -- 5 p.m.

1 p.m. -- "Islam: A Closer Look"   ( Hamza Yusuf / Hakim Quick 1995)
        A documentary of interviews with Muslims, including converts to Islam, who
        share personal insights about the faith tradition and living their religion.

1:30 p.m. -- Comments by Tarek Nosseir, Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake

2 p.m. -- "Luther"   (Eric Till 2003)
        The story of Martin Luther's (Joseph Fiennes) personal spiritual struggle which leads him into conflict and heresy that give birth to the Protestant Reformation.

4 p.m. -- "A Heart in Protest"
The 19th-century story of Mary Baker Eddy, whose new ideas about spirituality and health evolved into a religion which she named Christian Science.