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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

Mit einem jungen neuen Team unter der Leitung von Joanna Szymańska-Szcześniak und dem Programmdirektor Bartłomiej Pulcyn startete das Warschauer Filmfestival bei seiner 41. Ausgabe in gleich acht verschiedenen Spielstätten., so Holger Twele, Miglied der Ökumenischen Jury in Warschau 2025, in seinem Bericht.
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.

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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