Acts Of Faith

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Overview

Auto Da Fé is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama, the film presents a series of eight historical migrations over the last 400 years, starting with the little known 1654 fleeing of Sephardic Jews from Catholic Brazil to Barbados. As the film develops, we are presented with tale after tale of populations being displaced along religious lines, right up to the present day migrations from Hombori, Mali and Mosul, Iraq. Religion, persecution and migration are, it seems, old and continuing bedfellows. The work was filmed on location in Barbados, but the landscape is deliberately anonymous, reflecting the universal nature of these stories.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 22, 2016
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Director: John Akomfrah
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt5836056