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Two films produced by the World Council of Churches in co-operation with Peter Williams and Anders Laugesen DR1/Fakta; Denmark earned top honours at recent international festivals.
Cultural Shock – From Nairobi to Copenhagen: seeing Christianity from the other side, took a prize in the documentary category at the 15th European TV Festival of Religious Programmes – the most important festival of its kind. The 28-minute film, chosen among hundreds of entries from most major networks in Europe, tells the story of two Kenyan girls on a visit to a girl and her church in Denmark, a combination that poses difficult questions on Christianity and its place in the contemporary world.
In a second victory this year, The Roots of Violence was awarded the platinum prize in the Religion and Ethics category at the 37th WorldFest International Film Festival in Houston, USA. The film, also 28 minutes, and filmed with additional co-operation from the Ecumenical Council in Denmark and LWS, Sierra Leone, deals with the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone from the perspective of those who committed violent atrocities and their victims.
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