The 7th Christian Film Week opened in France on Wednesday 17 October; it will run till 23 October. This year it is proposing some twenty films produced and realized on the theme of fear. The films were chosen by a committee chaired by Msgr. Jean-Michel di Falco, auxiliary bishop of Paris, and composed of theologians, teachers, directors and critics. The projections are open to the students of Catholic schools in Paris and will be followed by a debate animated by the person who proposed the film in question. In the presentation of the event we read as follows: “Fear of the unknown, fear of the invisible. Fear of the truth, and fear of not being able to confront it. Fear of loving and of being loved. Fear of God. Fear is born when faced by something that we cannot see and that has never been seen”. But even “in the worst situations of life, hope remains”. The films to be projected also include The Truman Show, the story of a boy who was born and grew up in a world of TV fiction. Hero and victim of the means of communication. “You are afraid the director of the show says to him that’s why you’ll never go away from here”. The American film will open the debate on how “fear paralyses and is born from a lie”. The theme will be developed by the screening of another great film: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. This is a film in which life and death are intertwined, and in which the great existential questions are posed: why does evil exist? Is it possible to love?”
