The Farel Award goes to a Spiritual Documentary on Cristina Kaufmann.
The Farel Awards, the international festival for films with a religious theme, has awarded a documentary of the testimony of Cristina Kaufmann, a Swiss Discalced Carmelite nun who lived in Spain, and was noted for her strong spirituality that has been translated into writings, retreats and conferences.
An interview with this woman is the basis of the documentary winner "Recreating loneliness," by Francesc and Joan Grané of Eulogos Media of Barcelona, which took the award for "substance and form". According to the jury, the documentary presents the Gospel message in a "simple manner without being simplistic."
Serge Goriely, President of the jury, appreciated the difficulty of making a documentary film which is both "intelligent and sensitive."
The awards were presented in October at Neuchatel, Switzerland, the land where the religious sister, who took the name of Cristina of Divine Mercy, was born in 1939. She arrived …More