{"id":93013,"date":"2023-03-30T20:42:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T20:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/%f0%9f%8e%ac-the-documentary-the-mission-nonfy-documentaries-starts-today-in-german-cinemas\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T21:02:48","slug":"the-documentary-the-mission-nonfy-documentaries-starts-today-in-german-cinemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/en\/the-documentary-the-mission-nonfy-documentaries-starts-today-in-german-cinemas\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfac The documentary &#8220;The Mission&#8221; (NONFY Documentaries) starts today in German cinemas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, &#8220;<strong>The Mission<\/strong>&#8221; start in German cinemas on the <span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>UCM.ONE<\/strong><\/span> label <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">NONFY<\/span> Documentaries<\/strong>. The film by British-American-Swiss director <strong>Tania Anderson<\/strong> shows the life on <em>&#8220;mission&#8221;<\/em> of a group of young missionaries of the <strong>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/strong>. They leave their home in the USA to convert the most unreligious, closed-minded and sceptical people in Europe, the Finns, to their faith.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Summary<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Every year, over 60,000 missionaries from The <strong>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/strong> (<strong>LDS<\/strong> for short) are sent around the world to share their gospel. &#8220;<strong>The Mission<\/strong>&#8221; follows four American LDS teenagers who have been given a mission by God that takes them from their families and the safety of their remote, religion-filled bubbles to the icy, forested reaches of Finland, home to the least religious, most closed-minded and sceptical people in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The journey they embark on will prove to be the most emotionally and psychologically difficult time of their young lives. As these wide-eyed, passionate teenagers struggle with the absence of their families, language hurdles, aching feet and daily rejection, they are pushed beyond their limits and fall deeper and deeper into their faith.<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The international documentary production, a co-production of <strong>Danish Bear Productions<\/strong> (Finland) and <strong>Dirk Manthey Film<\/strong> (Germany), shows the inner life of a group of young missionaries of the <strong>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/strong> who leave their homeland for the first time and travel to the other side of the world to try to convert some of the most unreligious, closed-minded and sceptical people in Europe, the Finns, to their faith.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;87702&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Tania Anderson<\/strong> is a British-American-Swiss filmmaker living in Helsinki, Finland. She has also worked as a writer and journalist and has over 10 years&#8217; experience in the media industry, most recently as a writer for National Geographic, where she discovered her passion for telling the extraordinary stories of ordinary people. A conversation she overheard between two young missionaries in dark, wintry Finland gave her the idea for &#8220;<strong>The Mission<\/strong>&#8220;, her first feature-length documentary.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;91587&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;91593&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With &#8220;<strong>The Mission<\/strong>&#8220;, the <strong>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/strong> has, for the first time in its history, allowed a film crew to film young missionaries throughout their missionary years &#8211; from their nervous farewells as they leave home (some for the very first time) to their return as triumphant conquerors with &#8220;missionary splendour&#8221; or as psychologically exhausted fallen heroes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;91562&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director <strong>Tania Anderson<\/strong>&#8216;s stated aim was to <em>&#8220;connect with the vulnerable teenager behind the religious suit, the human being behind the missionary. 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