Winter Light (and conversation with Aaron Schimberg)

Tomas Ericsson, the pastor of a small rural church, performs service for a dwindling congregation on a bleak winter sunday. He is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith. After the service, he attempts to console a fisherman who is tormented by fears of nuclear holocaust, but Tomas can only speak about his own troubled relationship with God. Märta, a school teacher offers Tomas her love as consolation for his loss of faith. But Tomas resists her love as desperately as she offers it to him.

The director Aaron Schimberg (A Different Man) chooses a Bergman film. The film screening is followed by a conversation with the director.