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The spiritual cinema festival

Кинофестиваль духовного кино

Most modern film has one purpose – to entertain. However, movie lovers “with the meaning” has recently become more. In this regard, today in Sokolniki will host an international marathon spiritual movie, which will combine documentary and fiction works of the Russian, Serbian, Estonian and Polish Directors.

The marathon is held at the Orthodox festival “Artos”, the entrance for all visitors to see a contemporary look at the spiritual movie free.

Open Russian film festival “Easter forty-five”, which on the eve of may 9 to talk about the spiritual heroism of the nation that defeated fascism. The second Russian film called “Echo” will show the life path of a family of priests Pravdolyubov whose service continues without interruption for 300 years.

Next, the audience deeply touches the Serbian painting “the Healing”, a story about people experiencing a lot of emotions after the war in Kosovo. The film deals with a documentary project “the Heritage” in which he collects stories from the lives of people associated with the events of the Second World war on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Another Polish film “Archimandrite” is dedicated to the history of the only Orthodox Hermitage in Poland in the name of Anthony and Theodosius of the caves. And at the end of the festival, the Estonian film “the Flowers of the mount of olives”, showing the history of the nun Xenia, which before taking the great schema had the opportunity in recent times to tell about his life.

This movie is not just the religious content, this story is a conscious choice of spiritual values regardless of the situation. Such events are organized for the purpose of spiritual education, to the example of the heroes to realize the importance of the correctly chosen path.

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