The jury of the Protestant Film work
recommended as a film of June 2009
Adoration
recommended as a film of June 2009
Adoration
Simon is an orphan, his parents, the Muslim violin maker Sami and the Canadian violinist Rachel, after a fatal accident, only a childhood memory. Tom, his uncle who raised him. For his recently deceased grandfather was Simon's father is a murderer, the beloved killed and talented daughter. As Simon's French teacher Sabine told a translation exercise of a terrorist who leaves his pregnant fiancee unsuspecting traveling with a bomb in Tel Aviv, his imagination is aroused: his father is this terrorist, the mother pregnant with him. This incredible story he distributed at his school in Toronto and in Internet chat rooms. Simon's role-playing to a life of its own web of lies and truth, in which he threatens to lose himself. At the same time he is confronted with questions of guilt and forgiveness, with the prejudices against other religions and intolerance towards foreigners. [ More ... ]