A 48-minute film commissioned by the Universal House of Justice for the bicentenary of the birth of the Bab, founder of the Babi Faith. It follows the personal search for truth and meaning of eight people from different parts of the world, their stories told against the backdrop of the Bab's own life, and was released on the bicentenary, 29 to 30 October 2019, in Arabic, English, French, Persian, Russian, Spanish and Swahili.
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Production
Release Year Subject Matter
Religious Subject MatterThe Bab, founder of Babism: the commissioning body's own page names him outright as the film's occasion and backdrop. 1 Connections
Associated With
This source names The Universal House of Justice directly: "A 48-minute film commissioned by the Universal House of Justice for the bicentenary of the birth of the Bab, founder of the Babi Faith."
Source The Baha'i World Centre's Own Page for Dawn of the Light (2019)
Belongs to Tradition
The film's subject the Bab is the founder of Babism, making this the first screen work the atlas holds for the tradition.
Source The Baha'i World Centre's Own Page for Dawn of the Light (2019)
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Depicts
The commissioning Baha'i World Centre's own page names the Bab outright, and the Baha'i World News Service's own article says the film's eight stories are told "against the backdrop of the remarkable life of the Bab."
Source The Baha'i World Centre's Own Page for Dawn of the Light (2019)
Sources
1. The Baha'i World Centre's Own Page for Dawn of the Light (2019)
Universal House of Justice / Baha'i World Centrebahai.org/dawn-of-the-light; news.bahai.org/story/1354View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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