We are very glad to announce that THE NEW GOSPEL by multi-award-winning director Milo Rau was selected for the Feature-Length Documentary Competition of the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) in Amsterdam. This year the festival takes place from November 18 to December 6 in person and online. Twelve films by some of the world’s leading filmmakers are selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. The selection includes giants of documentary film, but also theater and visual art. With strong artistic concepts and bold formalist approaches, each title displays the mark of an auteur, from hybrid films to cinéma vérité.
With THE NEW GOSPEL, Milo Rau and his team return to the origins of the gospel and stage it as the passion play of a whole population. In Matera, southern Italy, where the great Jesus films from Pasolini to Gibson were shot, a cast of refugees and unemployed peasants are in search of a rewriting of the gospel with its original spirit. A New Gospel for the 21st Century emerges: A manifesto of solidarity of the poorest, a cinematic revolt for a more just, humane world.
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