HAMAKOM'S CINEMA JOURNEY

HAMAKOM's Cinema Journey film series engages people in personal journeys of spiritual growth through movies. Four movies each season portray different perspectives on the season's theme. Our film conversations, either on Zoom or in-person, create an inspiring space for participants to explore and share their experiences of the film - and to discover its underlying life lessons and hidden spiritual truths. Watch the film on your own and then attend the conversation, hosted by Valerie Edwards. You can visit our website here.

(1995 | Chris Noonan, Dir | Australia-USA-Britain | Fantasy-Comedy-Drama | 1hr 31 mins | G)

Does changing our interpretation of the world change our destiny?

In Australia, Babe, a young pig, watches wistfully as all the other pigs are trucked away, never to return. They are going to Pig Paradise, he thinks, a place so wonderful that nobody ever comes back. But Babe is spared this fatal trip to the slaughterhouse when Farmer Hoggett wins Babe at the county fair and brings him back to the Hoggett farm, where Babe is adopted by Fly and Rex, the farm’s prize winning border collies, and befriended by Maa, the sheep herd’s wise old matriarch. As Babe learns from the collies and the sheep, he begins to demonstrate strange behaviors that attract the curious attention of Farmer Hoggett. While Mrs. Hoggett sees Babe as nothing more than a tasty Christmas dinner, Farmer Hoggett begins to see Babe as the key to an unlikely, but heroic, destiny.   

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