Opening ceremony will be held in the Minsk Cathedral, and for 10 September, the festival will move to Glubochchina. This year, the festival will show 44 tapes.

According to the organizers of the festival, it will feature documentaries and animated films from 16 countries. For the first time in the festival will feature documentary film maker from Belgium and Azerbaijan. In addition to these, in the deep and Minsk show films of directors from Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Croatia and Estonia.

Chairman of the Festival Jury Gorulev said that the idea is very urgent to organize the views of entries is a festival and give this photo a regular character.

"It is not time to organize a" Festival Echoes ", but not many people may know what is the documentary film, created on the basis of the Christian tradition, and suffered, how it can change svetavsprymanne", - said Yuri Gorulev.

The festival jury headed this year Belarusian writer Christina Lyalko.

"Magnificat-2012" will run until September 13.

International Festival of Christian Documentary Films and TV Programs «Magnificat» will be held for the eighth time. The festival is a showcase of film works of Belarusian and foreign artists in film and television, which are aimed at the evangelization of society, and support the universal values established in different Christian traditions.