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© Roberto Rivoira
Pastor and film critic
Country of origin
Italy

Pastor and film critic of Italian and Northern Irish descent. Born in Belfast in 1975. He graduated in theology with a thesis on the pastoral models depicted in Ingmar Bergman’s films. He is a founding member of the Associazione Protestante Cinema “Roberto Sbaffi”, and meanwhile became its President. Further, he is a member of the INTERFILM Board. He has published several pop theology books, including “The Gospel According to Star Wars” (2015). He hosts a film review programme for Italian Adventist Radio. Since 2005, he has been a pastor of the Methodist and Waldensian Churches in Italy, actually serving in the parish of Trieste. He is honorary citizen of Palermo.

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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