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Here is the description of an idea for a documentary that we would like to do:

Logline:
A documentary about couples living in a polytheistic relationship.

Questions:
- What are the conflicts a couple faces with eachother, in daily life, with the families?
- How did the surroundings (family, friends, society) react to the relationship in the beginning, and how are they dealing with it now?
- How does living togehter work between two religious people of different belief?
- Can polytheistic couples be role-models for a peaceful co-existence between different religions?
- Personal statements of the couples towards the question whether religion supports tolerance, intercultural understanding and the solution of conflicts or is rather the source of intolerance and the conflict itself?

Procedure:
- we want to find one couple each in Istanbul, Mostar, Novi Sad, Ljubljana and Berlin and ask them the same questions
- in addition we would like to collect impressions of the cities (i.e. recording images of impressing places of the cities from a driving car; one high-angle long-exposure shot from each city; footage for a montage of churches, mosques and synagoges; if possible, images of the religions being practiced from each city
- as a part of the whole, the interviewees are to read quotes from the bible, thora, and koran, that talk about charity and tolerance towards other religious beliefs and to then discuss the free interpretation of the quotes on one hand, and the dogmatic collumns of religion on the other hand.

I would like to know what you think about this idea.
We are also looking for people to help us from all the other cities.
If someone knows couples (hetero, gay, lesbian, couples with kids, young couples...) that could be interesting to interview on these questions, we will be more than happy.
Maybe you also have ideas for places to film in your city and so on and so on...

Also, when you have ideas for Berlin and need research/help/whatever here, maybe we can help?

Ana and Bomm from Berlin.

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