Film Screening, "Broken Mirrors: European Muslims, Eastern Christians" (2006)

Film Screening, "Broken Mirrors: European Muslims, Eastern Christians" (2006)
Date
Event Sponsor
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Mediterranean Studies Forum, CREEES
Location
Pigott 100 (450 Serra Mall)

Screening will be followed by a Q&A Session with Film Producer Mesut Tufan

“European Muslims, Eastern Christians: Broken Mirrors” the documentary film produced by Mesut Tufan and Lebanese director Jacques Debs, was shown on Franco-German TV cultural channel ARTE on December 1st, 2006, and had broad repercussions in Europe, in terms of content and presentation. The film has received critical attention and has been supplemented by exhibitions at Vienna, Graz, Istanbul, Ankara, and Eskisehir. Broken Mirrors is the film of a travel from Sarajevo to Kosovo, from Macedonia to Albania, from there to Lebanon via Istanbul and Mardin, to Israel and Palestine, after covering this vast geography terminating in Jerusalem. The subject is a reciprocal cross-look at European Muslims and Eastern Christians. Without defending any thesis, it shows how the religious identities within nation states emerged from the old Ottoman geography, and the clash of identities, and presents local key figures and their struggle for interfaith accordance and for peace.

The film presents some key figures who light the way for peace in the Balkans or in the Middle East. First rank leaders and best examples of this dialogue and initiative for peace are, according to the geographic order of the interviews: Mustafa Efendiya Çeriç, Reis-ul Ulema of Bosnia, the late Bektashi Sheyh Baba Tahir of the Harabati Baba Tekke in Tetova-, His Beatitude Mesrob II Mutafian, Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul and All Turkey, Pierre Isa, Founder and President of Lebanese Civil Society Organization Rainbow, Father Emil Shufani, Archimandrite of Melkite Church in Nazareth.