A high school student revisits seven churches and chapels close to her faith after being confronted with what seems to her the unforgivable.
An experimental and iconoclastic journey through the Spanish Holy Week in the late sixties.
The story of Saul Alinsky, the father of community organizing, and the rise of his Cultural Marxism in the Catholic Church and America.
Follows two young women as they decide to leave behind ordinary life and start their journey to becoming nuns.
A young man at the beach wearing a crucifix tries to put on his Argentina's national football team t-shirt but it suffocates him
A religious young man's identity is called into question when he visits a conversion therapist.
Italy, 1959. A ten-year-old boy called Guido enters a Catholic seminary, fascinated by the idea of becoming a priest. He quickly understands that in order to be a good seminarian he has to submit to an ascetic and unnatural training, consisting in mortification of the flesh, obsession with sin and repression of one's sexual instincts and desires. Guido finds himself up against a deeply hierarchical system, where strict observance of rules and blind obedience to superiors are taught. A system in which thinking for oneself is forbidden.
A boy fears that his upcoming first holy communion is actually a flesh-eating zombie initiation rite.
13 former missionary priests from rural Ireland reveal all in this telling documentary about why they joined and subsequently left the active ministry and their life in the Church. Raised as devout Catholics from infancy, these honest men now in their later stages of life open up about intimacy, faith, religion and life before, during and after the priesthood.
Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A fruitful labor of a Catholic Church sector committed to address social issues.
An evocative and unsettling journey through christian and also deeply communist Kerala. Amidst red flags and altar boys, between the sea and the jungle, mixing the language of reportage and that of fable, the unedited docufilm tells the touching, profound, at times funny stories of a group of priests and nuns in the days leading up to Easter.
Raymond Roy is a 64-year-old idealist, an energetic social activist ready to give everything he has to those living on the edge: the alienated, impoverished and exploited members of society. Raymond is also a priest, doing what he has wanted to do ever since he was a teenager. Filmmaker Serge Giguère paints an intimate portrait of a man who has spent 30 years fighting for an alternative vision of life in his community. The film is a blend of cinema vérité and social history that provides a view of the man and his work from without and within, from the poetry of his personal diary laced with doubts and self-criticism, to the many achievements of the community groups he helped. Filming over several years, Giguère gives us a sense of the changes in values and attitudes of those who run our society, along with the role of the community groups who provide solutions, inspiration and a sense of renewal.
An unbaptized woman is killed because of the regressive mentality existing in the mountains of northern Albania.
Vampire Prison stars Eloy Azorín (All About My Mother) as Gabriel, a vampire who has been sentenced to serve time for his sins at Santiago de Compostela, a prison for vampires. He appears to have found a way to avert the rules of his imprisonment and instead continues to indulge in parties and the torture of women but all that changes when he falls for Eva, a woman who isn’t at all what he bargained for.
The documentary tells the story of how in Licata, a town in Sicily, Augustino changed his life, leaving the seminary and the opportunity to devote his life to the church and reinventing himself as Lorella Sukkiarini, a biting and provocative drag queen.
Peter is a successful kitchen contractor with a seemingly idyllic family. But when his long-lost high school sweetheart, Annalyn, calls him to remodel her kitchen, it starts a chain reaction of temptation and revelation that threatens to destroy both their marriages. Does Annalyn really want a brand new kitchen, or is it a different husband she’s angling for? As things spiral out of control, what will they choose the second time around?
Jonathan and Evelyn were lovers 30 years ago but have been estranged ever since because Evelyn left the church to marry one of Jonathan's divorced friends and Jonathan has been trying to get her to return to her Catholic faith ever since. Now widowed, they're forced to face their past when their children fall in love.