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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

"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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