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CLOSING FILM
January 21, 2019/ 10 pm
17. Internationales Festival Zeichen Der Nacht (Signes de Nuit)
January 18 - 21, 2019
Berlin / Germany
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Were there is Darkness
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GERMAIN PREMIERE |
Sean Bloomfield, Cimela Kidonakis
USA
2018 | 1:39:00
Fr. Rene Robert devoted his life to helping the less fortunate in and
around the tight-knit community of St. Augustine, Florida. But, in
2016, he was kidnapped and murdered by 28-year-old Steven Murray—an
ex-felon he had been trying to help. Just as prosecutors began seeking
a death sentence for Murray, Fr. Rene’s friends discovered a document
he had signed 20 years earlier which stated, in part, “Should I die as
a result of a violent crime, I request that the person responsible for
my killing not be subject to the death penalty, no matter how heinous
their crime.” Although prosecutors dismissed the document as having no
legal standing, the discovery ignited a grassroots movement led by
residents of St. Augustine who wanted the courts to accept Fr. Rene’s
wishes and spare his killer's life.
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