In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf's wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism a…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
With the premise to achieve a kind of lyrical collage, the renowned Spanish filmmaker Jacinto Esteva makes a prismatic …
Hundreds of people migrate every year to a very special place in Brasilia in search of a spiritual change in their live…
In this documentary, Cristóbal Jodorowski takes us into the world of psycoshamanism, a new current of healing that mixe…
Linked to a lesser or greater extent with religious organizations, in this documentary people from the LGBTI+ community…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
Using cinematic techniques, the performance of the crucifixion of Christ interpreted by ordinary people in a village in…
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
The history of an entire town converges in one period of the year: Holy Week. This documentary gives a subtle chronolog…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
A public park in Moscow becomes the scene of dispute when believers of Russian Orthodox Christianity want to take a plo…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
Incredible as it may seem, exorcisms take place every day in present-day Poland. But what is really behind the return o…
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
Filmed in 1982, this iconic documentary follows for a year and a half the people of a remote community in North West Ne…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
A group of men sculpt the immense figure of a saint. The act is a display of white particles and movement throughout th…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
For just the way a chicken dies, a woman can be accused of being a witch and excluded from communities in northern Ghan…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
This documentary takes us to several countries to show us how Muslim men around the world are challenging the tradition…
Combining animation and live action footage, this documentary follows Mansour, a homosexual Iranian Muslim on a journey…
Ana, a seller of religious calendars and rosaries, Zorka, her inmmediate contender, and The Square we they work, are an…
A religious young man’s identity is called into question when he visits a controversial conversion therapist.
In this documentary, the screen is divided into 9 frames to show us the service of the Reformed Church in Holland in a …
The visits of a sacred painting to the houses of ordinary Polish people frames the visit of a homeless person to his mo…
This documentary takes us into the culture of the Evuzok, inhabitants of southern Cameroon who through the ritual of th…
When Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise was a child, she used to send balloon letters to Allah. Now she has decided to …
Through an observational approach, this short film documents the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Zeynebiye, in Istan…
Avant Garde filmmaker Kamal Swaroop explores the ancient myths and politicking of Indian Gods as the heavens descend an…
Set against a backdrop of hurricanes, coastal devastation, and apocalyptic fear, the film is an unnerving exploration o…
Safe Passage is a silent look at a historic passage between Iran and Iraq for pilgrims heading from one country to anot…
The Madman and the Cathedral is a documentary about one man’s dream to build a cathedral with no construction experienc…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
An experimental observation of an Iranian burial ceremony.
Director Georg Koszulinski makes a journey to rural Haiti in search of answers about the enigmatic Vodoo religion.
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