‘LIVING PRAYER’ FESTIVAL

4/15 MARCH 2026

A SERIES OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS BY

JEAN-CLAUDE LUBTCHANSKY

Produced by Axis Mundi Foundation

Introduced with q&a by the films’ editor

Gabrielle Lubtchansky

14 March 

Doors open at 2.30pm

3pm The Gates of Shinto

5pm Living Prayer in Hinduism

Followed by a Q&A

 

15 March

3pm Living Prayer in Buddhism

5pm  Living Prayer in Christianity

Followed by a Q&A

 

Evening ends at 7pm

Jean-Claude Lubtchansky (1930-2020) was a

freelance film director who lived in Paris,

France. He made films for over 60 years and

collaborated with his son Mikaël as

cameraman for 25 years and his daughter

Gabrielle was the editor for his last 5 films.

Lubtchansky worked mainly for the cinema

and ARTE, the cultural television channel.

He was a longtime collaborator with theatre

director Peter Brook and was editor of

“Lord of the Flies” and Associate Producer

for “Meetings with Remarkable Men”.

For many years he dedicated his professional

and his personal life to the essential questions

of life and mankind using the medium of film.

In the winter of his life, Lubtchansky

concentrated on a series of films about

different religions called “Living Prayer”,

a project exploring the experience of prayer

in different traditions in order to keep alive

that which is at risk of disappearing.

This project is seen as a spiritual archive of

living masters, providing a sense of the

profound taste of the experience of ripened

prayer that is beyond teaching and more akin

to the experienced of prayer itself. The approach

is poetic, evocative and experiential, with the

great support of the natural world rather than

teaching or philosophical explanations.

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