"Does your god have any canned meat, canned fish, or airplanes?" The conversion of a Papua New Guinea tribe to Christianity is inspired less by spiritual commitment than by the desire for the goods white Christians enjoy. The lush jungles and the tribesmen's painted faces are visually striking, but the film's most vivid aspect is the ambivalence of its central character, the tribe's chief, as he oversees preparations for a Christmas day baptism with a mixture of humor and resignation. This deceptively simple, sometimes funny film nevertheless raises troubling questions about the missionaries' conversion methods and the way governments use them to control tribal populations. The Gospel according to the Papuans may seem a bit off, but it's exactly what the missionaries have taught them. With short: Our Stork (Lívia Gyarmathy, Hungary, 1999): A lovely, almost wordless meditation on nature and the passing of seasons. (29 mins)