Siedemnastoletnia Veronica nigdy nie przypuszczała, że zechce oblać w życiu jakiś egzamin. Wszystko do czasu, kiedy widzi dodatni wynik testu ciążowego. Nagle perspektywa obiecującej przyszłości na prestiżowej uczelni staje się bardzo odległa, a dziewczyna musi zmierzyć się z decyzją, przed którą miała nigdy nie stanąć. Veronica rusza w trzydniową podróż do Nowego Meksyku ze swoją byłą najlepszą przyjaciółką, Bailey. Podczas wyprawy nastolatki odkrywają, że czasem najważniejszą decyzją, jaką można podjąć w życiu, jest ta dotycząca wyboru przyjaciół.
Młodej kobiecie objawiła się Matka Boska. Reporter francuskiej gazety zostaje członkiem komisji badającej sprawę cudu.
Jedyne, czego pragnęła Abby Johnson, to pomagać kobietom. Z tym nastawieniem już podczas studiów została wolontariuszką, a potem pracownicą jednej z klinik aborcyjnych potężnej organizacji Planned Parenthood. Głęboko wierząc w prawo kobiet do wyboru, szybko awansowała, by ostatecznie zostać jedną z najmłodszych w kraju dyrektorek korporacyjnego giganta wykonującego seryjne aborcje. Tak było do czasu, aż zobaczyła coś, co zmieniło jej życie na zawsze...
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.
In 19th century France, an escaped convict seeks redemption while caring for a young woman whose mother he once protected, and aligning himself with a band of student revolutionaries.
Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the Franciscan monastery of Saorge, near the Italian border. But everything changes with the arrival of the beautiful Marianne and a military detachment.
The human being feels generally as fascinated as fearful before death and the inevitable fact of dying. Workers at the cemetery of Palma de Mallorca, in Spain, face this harsh reality every day, so they have found a way to deal with it.
Three leading figures in today's Buddhist-Christian dialogue share their personal journeys in the new documentary Jesus and Buddha: Practicing Across Traditions. We learn how following the path of the Buddha has informed and deepened their understanding of who Jesus was and what he taught. Their experience and insight bring these two liberating archetypes alive in a way that can help guide us through our own confusion and struggle toward lives filled with joy and gratitude, compassion and service.
A group of people bows down as a ritual for religious ceremonies. This community shares a belief named Sapta Drama, one of the native religions in Indonesia that uses bowing down as a worshiping medium.
In 2019, some still consider homosexuality as a disease that needs to be cured. Focusing on movements with roots in the United States, which draw on both religion and psychiatry to justify so-called conversion therapies, an investigation into the devastating consequences of certain practices that seem to successfully avoid any control by European public authorities.
Phai is an innocent boy who has been forced to be a monk, with the hope that this would help the venerable monk to get better from disease. At the same time, villagers also praise a termite hill in the woods for the same purpose. Fahmai a town girl makes Phai start to question what happens.
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the ancient Christian practice of preserving holy relics and the largely forgotten art form that went with it, the reliquary. Fragments of bone or fabric placed inside a bejewelled shrine, a sculpted golden head or even a life-sized silver hand were, and still are, objects of religious devotion believed to have the power to work miracles. The documentary features interviews with art historian Sister Wendy Beckett and Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum.
John Frum, Messiah of Polynesian Cargo Cults, returns as an astronaut and businessman to the postindustrial wasteland of the financial-service-economy. Embarking on a "conquest of the useless" things get confused and what begins as a journey becomes a trip beyond the boundaries of so called logic and meaning. Realised in beautifully crafted animation and innovatively rendered background art, the telling of this story is thick with atmosphere and celebrates a renaissance of the unconscious freed from the technocratic shackles of our times.
The story of a son and his mother. He: homosexual. She: strictly Roman Catholic. Two different worlds - a conflict is starting. Can love overcome all prejudices? A film against discrimination. A movie for acceptance.