Of Gods and Men

In 2011, during the census, many Croatian households dreaded the arrival of officials who would, under threat of heavy fines, extract from household members answers to questions of the most intimate nature and force them to think carefully while doing so, lest with “wrong” words in the eyes of fools – of whom there has never been a shortage in these unhappy part of the world – they bring upon themselves the stigma o…

Of Gods and Men captured my attention when the trailers first hit my local Indie theater. The film purported to tell the true story of a group of Trappist Monks who lived among a Muslim community in Algiers. The events take place between 1995 and 1996. Of Gods and Men won the Grand Prix at Cannes, 2010. Of Gods and Men opens with a scripture from Psalms 82, from which the film draws its title: > I have said, Ye are…