Saturday 22 January 2011
Film on common roots of Islam and Judaism screened in France

The Great Mosque of Cordoba, a production still from the film
www.outofcordoba.comA highlight of the international festival of intercultural cinema in Lempaut, southewest France, was a documentary on tolerance between the world's three monotheistic religions. In Jacob Bender's "Out of Cordoba", the twelfth-century heroes, Averroes and Maimonides engage in a very modern debate between the faiths. The film is to be screened in February at the UN’s New York headquarters as part of the World Interfaith Harmony Week.

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