The Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese will connect with the Horcynus Festival of Capo Peloro on Saturday 3 August at 9.00 pm, on the occasion of the presentation of the book “Dialogues on Faith”.
In this volume the great American filmmaker dialogues with the Jesuit Anthony Spadaroretracing his career and, for the first time, focusing on the role of faith in his private and professional life.
This comparison between the two began on March 3, 2016 in New York, when Father Spadaro met Martin Scorsese to talk about “Silence,” the film that the Italian-American director dedicated to the persecution of the Jesuits in Japan.
Also present on Saturday evening was Spadaro, a theologian, essayist, literary critic, former director of the magazine “La Civiltà Cattolica”, currently undersecretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture, and one of the most authoritative exponents of contemporary Catholic culture.
This event starring Martin Scorsese and Antonio Spadaro is organized by the Horcynus Festival in collaboration with La Feltrinelli of Messina.
At the end of the meeting, the film “Silence” (2016) by Martin Scorsese will be screened.which tells the story of two Portuguese missionaries who in the 17th century undertake a dangerous journey to Japan to search for their missing mentor and spread the Christian gospel. It all begins when Father Sebastian Rodrigues and Father Francisco Garupe, the two young missionaries, decide to follow the trail of Father Christavao Ferreira, of whom there is no news. Father Ferreira had, in fact, left for Japan to spread Christianity in a country that, following the will of the feudal lords and samurai, had decided to persecute those who practiced the religion. Christians in Japan, who continued to cultivate their faith in secret, were consequently persecuted and tortured to the point of being forced to renounce their faith or face a painful death.
This film is based on an award-winning novel by Shûsaku Endô that examines the spiritual and religious question of God’s silence in the face of human suffering.