Father Georges
Director Jesús Medina
Countries
Duration 28 min
Synopsis
The missionary Jordi Mas Castells, from La Garriga (Barcelona), is 79 years old, 49 he lived in Cameroon’s north and high north, the poorest areas of this country. He has builded a lot of wells, he has promoted hospitals and schools to the people, 95% of which is muslim. This documentary wants to avoid conventional biography and it wants to fix the spirit portrait of a person that he summarize his life in a phrase: “How can I preach the good things about the eternal life if here are this hell of suffering”. With texts of Ryszard Kapuscinski, the documentary looks for approaching to futur and present of african world.
The missionary Jordi Mas Castells, from La Garriga (Barcelona), is 79 years old, 49 he lived in Cameroon’s north and high north, the poorest areas of this country. He has builded a lot of wells, he has promoted hospitals and schools to the people, 95% of which is muslim. This documentary wants to avoid conventional biography and it wants to fix the spirit portrait of a person that he summarize his life in a phrase: “How can I preach the good things about the eternal life if here are this hell of suffering”. With texts of Ryszard Kapuscinski, the documentary looks for approaching to futur and present of african world.