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Film Info

Germany, Switzerland 2020 | 107 min. Director: Milo Rau
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Production Company

Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH
Maastrichter Strasse 45
50672 Köln Fax +49 221 8875515 Phone +49 221 8875513 http://www.fruitmarket.de

Categories

Documentary Docudrama

The New Gospel

starts December 17, 2020 in digital cinemas

Synopsis

What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today’s bearers of secular and spiritual power respond to the return and provocations of the most influential prophet and social revolutionary in human history? With “The New Gospel”, Milo Rau is staging a “Revolt of Dignity”. Led by political activist Yvan Sagnet, the movement is fighting for the rights of migrants who came to Europe across the Mediterranean to be enslaved on the tomato fields in southern Italy and to live in ghettos under inhumane conditions. The director and his team return to the origins of the gospel and stage it as a passion play of an entire civilization. In Matera, in southern Italy, where the great Jesus films from Pasolini to Gibson were shot, an authentically political as well as theatrical and cinematic “New Gospel” emerges for the 21st century. A manifesto of solidarity with the poorest, a revolt for a more just, humane world.







A production of Fruitmarket, Langfilm & IIPM – International Institute of Political Murder in coproduction with SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen / SRG SSR, ZDF in cooperation with ARTE in collaboration with Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019, Consorzio Teatri Uniti di Basilicata and Teatro di Roma supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK), Zürcher Filmstiftung, DFFF - Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Kanton St.Gallen Kulturförderung / Swisslos, BKM - Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Volkart Stiftung, Suissimage Kulturfonds

Cast & Crew

Festivals/awards

2020
17 Giornate degli Autori Venedig 2020
33 IDFA Amsterdam, int. competition 2020
Human Rights Film Festival Zurich 2020

2021
Schweizer Filmpreis 2021: Best Documentary
Comp. Prix de Soleure – Solothurner Filmtage
FIFDH Geneva, int comp.
HUMAN International Documentary Film Norway
Cinéma du Réel, Paris,
2021 shortlisted for LOLA2021 — Deutscher Filmpreis Dokumentarfilm #lola21
DOC NYC

Production Company

Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH
Maastrichter Strasse 45
50672 Köln Fax +49 221 8875515 Phone +49 221 8875513 http://www.fruitmarket.de

Cast & Crew

Milo Rau
 Arne Birkenstock, Olivier Zobrist , Sebastian Lemke
 Thomas Eirich-Schneider
 Vinicio Capossela
Katja Dringenberg
 Marco Teufen, Julian Joseph

Categories

Documentary Docudrama
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