Documentary En busca del Mesías to release in Colombia

The documentary film “En busca del Mesías,” directed by Spanish filmmaker Andrés Garrigó, is scheduled for release in Cinermark Colombia theaters on November 19. The film features testimonies from prominent Jewish individuals who converted to Catholicism.

Featured subjects include British literary critic Robert Asch, Edgard Leite Ferreita Neto, president of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy, and Cayetana Johnson, a professor at San Damaso Ecclesiastical University. The documentary also explores the historical stories of figures such as Saint Edith Stein, physician Bernard Nathanson, and former Roman rabbi Eugenio Zolli.

According to the film's producers, the work aims to highlight the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, referencing the Vatican II declaration “Nostra aetate” regarding the ties between the Catholic Church and the Hebrew people.