Praying for Armageddon

The vast majority of society works for the world to continue to exist. But in the US, a large group of Christian fundamentalists is working to hasten doomsday. Power, money and religion are intertwined in this terrifying thriller documentary.

Praying for Armageddon is a magnificent documentary from the director of iHuman, Tonje Hessen Schei. She and co-director Michael Rowley follow an ever-growing evangelical movement that is convinced that Jesus will appear in Israel to take the lives of all the unbelievers. The crises our planet has experienced the recent years - pandemics, wars and natural disasters - are seen as proof that the prophecy is about to be realized. For this to happen, the Israeli state has to exist, and the influential group is therefore actively working against American foreign policy in the Middle East. Praying for Armageddon investigates the dangerous consequences of the fusion between Evangelical Christianity and American politics, may lead to.

«…“Praying for Armageddon” is a compelling, sobering Revelation all its own, revealing the hitherto unimagined scale of a type of political insanity that would entrust the future to people who don’t want there to be a future at all.»
– Jessica Kiang, Variety –

Oslo premiere, Wednesday, August 30th

Welcome to the Oslo premiere on Wednesday, 30.08, at 18.00 at Vega Scene, in collaboration with the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival. After the screening, there will be a discussion with director Tonje Hessen Schei and Rebecka Hildebrand Gyllerup, festival director of HUMAN.

Director

Tonje Hessen Schei is a Norwegian director, producer and screenwriter who has worked with independent documentary since 1996. Her films mostly take on international issues that questions systems of power that shape our world. She has directed the films Drone (2014) and iHuman (2019). Tonje has an education in social anthropology from NTNU and TV and film production from the University of Texas in Austin. She has won awards both in Norway and abroad for her films. Michael Rowley is a filmmaker from Dallas in the USA. He has worked in TV production, and in 2019 made the documentary film Hurdle.

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