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Minister
Country of origin
Switzerland

André Joly (*1954) founded a film club in high school, and since then is fascinated by the cinema. He has a MDiv from the University of Lausanne. Ordained pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church, he was sent as fraternal worker to a Presbyterian Church in French Polynesia where he also used to work with religious TV programs. He has a large experience in interreligious dialogue in the Pacific Ocean, Middle-East and Asia, and was for a long time involved in the Church Fellowship in the Middle-East. He worked as pastor in Nyon and Lausanne till his retirement in 2019.

Festivals

Current issues

The quality of the films in competition in TIFF24, the Transilvania International Film Festival in Cuj-Napoca, was outstanding and impressed the ecumenical jury. The festival focusses on debuts of filmmakers or second films.
Marie Starck, complemented by Dietmar Adler, reports about a symposium at Judson Memorial Church, New York, which was supported by INTERFILM

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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