JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

16th

World Cinemascape: Masters

Words with Gods

Director_ Guillermo ARRIAGA, Hector BABENCO, Bahman GHOBADI, Amos GITAI, Emir KUSTURICA, NAKATA Hideo, Warwick THORNTON, Alex de la IGLESIA, Mira NAIR

Mexico, USA 2014 135min DCP Color feature

Review

An omnibus movie created by 9 world class filmmakers about ‘encountering god’. Each director expresses in their own way on how the world today needs the blessing of god and the eager desire of a holy life.

CREDIT

DIRECTORGuillermo ARRIAGA

SCREEN WRITER Hector BABENCO
PRODUCER Bahman GHOBADI

DIRECTOR

Guillermo ARRIAGA

Hector BABENCO

Bahman GHOBADI

Amos GITAI

Born in 1950, Israel. He obtained PhD in architecture at UC Berkeley. Joined the Yom Kippur war in 1973 while he was a student and started filming with 8mm camera. His films deal with the Middle East and Jewish-Arab conflict. [#i_]Kadosh[_i#](1999), [#i_]Kippur[_i#](2000) [#i_]and Kedma[_i#](2002) was nominated Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival and [#i_]Eden[_i#](2001), [#i_]Alila[_i#](2003) and [#i_]Pomised Land[_i#](2004) was nominated Golden Lion at Venice International Film Festival.