Exceptional appointment tonight at theHorcynus Festival of Capo Peloro with the director Martin Scorsese who will connect from America on the occasion of the presentation of the book “Dialogues on faith”.
In this volume the Oscar-winning filmmaker he confronts the Jesuit Anthony Spadaro retracing his career and, for the first time, focusing on the role of faith in his private and professional life.
The event, which will start at 9:00 pm and is organized in collaboration with La Feltrinelli of Messina, will also see the participation of Spadaro, theologian, essayist, literary critic, former director of the magazine “La Civiltà Cattolica” and currently undersecretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture.
At the end of the meeting, the film “Silence” (2016) by Martin Scorsese, which tells the story of two Portuguese missionaries who in the 17th century undertake a perilous journey to Japan to search for their missing mentor and spread the Christian gospel. The film is based on an award-winning novel by Shûsaku Endô which examines the spiritual and religious question of God’s silence in the face of human suffering.
As a confirmation of the rich and important program of the Horcynus Festival, tonight at Roccavaldina (Messina), the concert of the great singer-songwriter is scheduled Roberto Vecchioniwho will perform at 9.30pm in Piazza del Popolo.
In this very municipality, the MeSSInA Foundation has long since launched educational and cultural activities, as well as significant projects (co-financed by Italia Domani, the National Business and Resilience Plan), such as, for example, the construction of a factory producing bioplastics obtained from the residues of the processing of the grain from the Messina Brewery.