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Silent Light (15)

at Greenbelt 2008: Rising Sun

Vic Thiessen

Saturday

Winner of the Jury Prize at the ’07 Cannes Film Festival, Silent Light tells the story of the spiritual crisis of an adulterous Mexican Mennonite farmer. Thoughtful and insightful, it examines the grand spiritual themes of life, death, love and forgiveness with a cast of non- actors, in a documentary style. Saturday 19.00 Film Foxhunter

Vic Thiessen is a Canadian Mennonite theologian who has worked as the director of the London Mennonite Centre since 2002. He is a regular speaker at Greenbelt on the subject of film and theology and he has led film discussion groups at the Guy Chester Centre and St. Ethelburga's. Vic has hosted a film night in his home every week for the past nine years and is the film writer for the Canadian Mennonite magazine.

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Silent Light (15)