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Theologian and journalist
Country of origin
Sweden

Håkan Holmlund has worked for many years in the area of film and church, and has organised several film festivals in churches. Between 1998 and 2005, he did his master’s in theology in Stockholm and Uppsala and has since worked as a clergyman for the Church of Swedish in Stockholm. Before that, he worked as a journalist in Germany for Swedish newspapers, radio, and television. 

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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.
“To get straight to the point, Robert Redford was an idol of my youth.” This is how Peter Paul Huth begins his obituary for the famous actor, director, and festival founder.

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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