Film Screenings
Film is an excellent medium to introduce historical and contemporary encounters between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in a compelling and thought-provoking way. Our carefully curated selection of documentaries will engage the audience and provide food for thought for the facilitated group discussion following the screening.
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Sample Films
Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for mutual respect and common ground. It is the story of Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt, and their meeting on a bloody battlefield during the period of Christian-Muslim conflict known as the Crusades.
- Winner of 26 International Awards
- Written and Produced by John Viscount – Directed by Harry Kakatsakis
- Starring Academy-nominated actor James Cromwell
- Viewed by over 80 million people worldwide
John Viscount, the screenwriter and producer of Admissions will be present to introduce the film.
Set within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Admissions highlights the shared humanity between people in conflict.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called Larycia Hawkins a modern-day Rosa Parks. Her costly decision, motivated by her own Christian commitments, to embody solidarity with Muslim women, is the subject of Same God.
Larycia Hawkins, PhD., is a scholar, a political science professor, and activist. In a December 10, 2015, Facebook post, she declared her intention to don a hijab in embodied solidarity with Muslim sisters throughout the Christian season of Advent. The post initiated a national and international conversation about the nature of God and the possibilities for multi-faith solidarity in a time of pervasive Islamaphobia, xenophobia, religiously-motivated hate crimes, and racism.
At the time the documentary recounts, Doc Hawk (as her students called her) was Associate Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College (IL), where she was the first black woman to receive tenure in the history of the university founded in 1860 by abolitionists. Two months following the commencement of her embodied solidarity with Muslim women, she and Wheaton College, a Christian university, “parted ways.”
In an era where the contours of American citizenship are actively contested on multiple fronts, Larycia Hawkins continues to walk in embodied solidarity with Syrian refugees during a visit to Turkey with the Zakat Foundation; with survivors and perpetrators of the genocide in Rwanda; and to speak nationally and internationally, including at the Free University of Berlin, Harvard University, Princeton University, Zaytuna College, and a TedX talk on her act of embodied solidarity.
Professor Hawkins teaches and researches at the University of Virginia, where she is jointly appointed as Assistant Professor in the departments of Politics and Religious Studies; serves as a Faculty Fellow at the university’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture; is a Contributor to the Project on Lived Theology; and co-convenes the Henry Luce Foundation project, Religion and Its Publics.