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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

Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.
Commentary on the award ceremony at the Venice International Film Festival 2025. By Peter Paul Huth

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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