"VEIL"
Marketing and press:
"Veil" on the International short film festival, Clermont-Ferrand web site: www.clermont-filmfest.com
Various authors ( and politics) speak about the topics approached in short film:
In the past :
Immanuel Kant in 1784, into "What is Enlightenment ?":
"If it is now asked, "Do we presently live in an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." As matters now stand, a great deal is still lacking in order for men as a whole to be, or even to put themselves into a position to be able without external guidance to apply understanding confidently to religious issues. But we do have clear indications that the way is now being opened for men to proceed freely in this direction and that the obstacles to general enlightenment--to their release from their self-imposed immaturity--are gradually diminishing. In this regard, this age is the age of enlightenment, the century of Frederick.
A prince who does not find it beneath him to say that he takes it to be his duty to prescribe nothing, but rather to allow men complete freedom in religious matters--who thereby renounces the arrogant title of tolerance--is himself enlightened and deserves to be praised by a grateful present and by posterity as the first, at least where the government is concerned, to release the human race from immaturity and to leave everyone free to use his own reason in all matters of conscience. ".
John Locke in 1689, into « A Letter Concerning Toleration » :
« Since you are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual toleration of Christians in their different professions of religion, I must needs answer you freely that I esteem that toleration to be the chief characteristic mark of the true Church. For whatsoever some people boast of the antiquity of places and names, or of the pomp of their outward worship; others, of the reformation of their discipline; all, of the orthodoxy of their faith — for everyone is orthodox to himself — these things, and all others of this nature, are much rather marks of men striving for power and empire over one another than of the Church of Christ. Let anyone have never so true a claim to all these things, yet if he be destitute of charity, meekness, and good-will in general towards all mankind, even to those that are not Christians, he is certainly yet short of being a true Christian himself ».
In the present:
Bibliographical references :
-> « Le foulard islamique en questions »
Authors : Balibar, Barkat, Bouamama, Bourdieu, Bouteldja, Bouzar, Delphy, Dubois, El Yazami, Gaspard, Göle, Grupper, Guénif-Souilams, Hamana, Kian-Thiébaut, Khosrokhavar, Lévy, Nordmann, Ogilvie, Shepard, Terray, Tévanian, Tournemire, Vidal.
Publisher : Editions Amsterdam
Author : Pierre Tévanian
Publisher : Raisons d’agir
-> « Ce que nous voile le voile-La république et le sacré »
Author : Régis Debray
Publisher : Gallimard
->Revue "Le monde des religions"
Director: Frédéric Lenoir
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Penguin Books
->"A Letter Concerning Toleration"
Author: John Locke
Publisher: Wikipedia
->Quatrains et ballades du poète Omar Khayyâm
Publisher: Actes Sud