"Spiritual cinema" stole the limelight at the Venice Film Festival today. The president of the Papal Council of Social Communication, mgr. Claudio Maria Celli, gave the 2008 "Robert Bresson" Award to Argentine film director Daniel Burman. A prize that is given every year by Fondazione Ente dello spettacolo to a film director for "his significant testimony to the difficult journey in search of the spiritual meaning of our life". "The Holy See stated mgr. Celli, during the awards ceremony is very interested in those films that can explore man’s journey in the difficult search of his own identity and the meaning of life. That’s why the Bresson Award to Daniel Burman is not an award given to a film director from a Catholic background nor to a particular film, but to the overall work of a film-maker who has spent his career in that journey with extraordinary insight and modesty. We need to still taste the flavour of the most genuine things and we need film directors who investigate and highlight the deepest urgencies that are hidden in every man’s heart". (continued)
