A wave of spirituality washed over the Venice Film Festival on Saturday with the out-of-competition screening of "Words with Gods," a series of religious-themed short films directed by Mexico's Guillermo Arriaga and eight other filmmakers, including Spain's Alex de la Iglesia and Argentine-born Brazilian Hector Babenco.
"It doesn't deal with religions so much as human beings," Arriaga, who also produced the project, said here of his short, "La Sangre de Dios" (Blood of God).
"The goal of the film is to spark a dialogue so we can understand ourselves better and become better . . .
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