Cinema en spiritualiteit

'De film is de meest religieuze van alle kunsten omdat ze de mens voor de essentie van dingen plaatst en de ziel in het lichaam laat zien.'

- Jean-Luc Godard

Rumi-Turning Ecstatic
film van Tina Petrova en Stephen Roloff

Six years ago, Tina Petrova drove off a cliff - both literally and figuratively.

She had spent the morning driving to Buddhist chanting, at a monastery high in the mountains of Southern California’s desert. Along the way, she gave a ride to a hitchhiker, an enigmatic woman standing beside a deserted stretch of road. When Tina dropped the hitchhiker off at her destination, she had offered a prophetic warning. Driving up the mountain, the words echoed in Tina’s mind as her car hit a patch of black ice and started to skid: “don’t drive off the cliff today…”

This life-changing event launched Tina on the journey that was to become the basis for this docudrama. In the midst of an ongoing struggle with pain and despair, she was visited by a phenomenal encounter with Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic. The incident opened up a path of healing and transformation, that lead Tina to a remarkable array of individuals whose lives and work have been influenced by Rumi’s philosophy, teachings and poetry.

Rumi’s exquisite metaphors of ecstatic divine love resonate all the more powerfully in today’s troubled times, and all the more ironically- for his birthplace was Afghanistan and his final resting place Turkey . Join us on one woman’s magical journey of passion, bliss and surrender that offers a perspective of renewed hope for all humankind.