The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.
Camera | Kiko de la Rica | Director of Photography |
Writing | Dunja Kusturica | Writer |
Directing | Guillermo Arriaga | Director |
Writing | Héctor Babenco | Writer |
Camera | Martin Šec | Director of Photography |
Writing | Álex de la Iglesia | Writer |
Writing | Emir Kusturica | Writer |
Directing | Warwick Thornton | Director |
Writing | Guillermo Arriaga | Writer |
Camera | Adrian Teijido | Director of Photography |
Directing | Álex de la Iglesia | Director |
Camera | Giora Bejach | Director of Photography |
Directing | Amos Gitai | Director |
Production | Lucas Akoskin | Producer |
Directing | Hideo Nakata | Director |
Directing | Emir Kusturica | Director |
Sound | Peter Gabriel | Music |
Writing | Warwick Thornton | Writer |
Directing | Bahman Ghobadi | Director |
Directing | Mira Nair | Director |
Camera | Sergio Yazbek | Director of Photography |
Writing | Hideo Nakata | Writer |
Writing | Amos Gitai | Writer |
Camera | Igor Martinović | Director of Photography |
Directing | Héctor Babenco | Director |
Production | Guillermo Arriaga | Producer |
Writing | Jorge Guerricaechevarría | Writer |
Camera | Shanker Raman | Director of Photography |
Camera | Tetsuro Sano | Director of Photography |
Camera | Warwick Thornton | Director of Photography |
Writing | Reema Kagti | Writer |
Production | Alex García | Producer |
Writing | Zoya Akhtar | Screenplay |
Writing | Bahman Ghobadi | Screenplay |