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Associate Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics
Country of origin
Canada

Alyda Faber is Associate Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax. She teaches courses in film and religion, Christian theology, and ethics. Research in the area of film: film as parable, film poetics, ethics and film, representations of violence. Publications on film: essays on the films of Frederick Wiseman, Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Mike Leigh, among others; work in progress on Frederick Wiseman, parable and reciprocity. Forthcoming publication, a poem, “Berlinale Erotik” in Bitterzoet.

Articles

In her report Alyda Faber gives a detailed analysis of "Lara" and "Let There Be Light", the films which received, respectively, the Ecumenical Jury prize, and a commendation.  Three other films that especially impressed the Ecumenical Jury are also discussed.
Milja Radovic and Alyda Faber, jury members, review films of Locarno 2014
Jury member Alyda Faber reports about the Berlinale 2012

Current issues

"Defiant" by director Visa Koiso-Kanttila wins the Prize of the Church Media Foundation in Finland at the International Chidren's and Youth Festival in Oulu 2025.
The Hof Film Festival is now in its 58th year and has become a hallmark of the city, which is why Hof likes to call itself the “Home of Films,” a phrase that is said to have originated with Wim Wenders. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Munich film scene came to Hof (...). As a nostalgic reminder, this year there was a 35mm screening of Fassbinder's early work “Gods of the Plague”. Peter Paul Huth reports about the festival.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2

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