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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

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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