Search results: Religion and Spirituality

Onanya

Onanya Onanya is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of an Amazonian tribe that has stood the test of time. The Shipibo are indigenous gatekeepers of the natural kingdom and its medicinal plants whose way of life is under threat.
Flood

Flood In the shadow of the Flood that occurred thousands of years ago, four characters floating between Heaven & Earth are confronting with Nature's changes.
Week 23

Week 23 How far can one go based purely on maternal instincts
Marry Me However

Marry Me However The film explores the lives Orthodox-Jewish LGBT members who willingly choose to marry heterosexuals and raise a heteronormative family, obeying the rules of their societies while denying their own identities
Songs of Repression

Songs of Repression At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera. However, the beauty hides a grim past.
Leaving Paradise

Leaving Paradise Discovery of their Jewish roots threatens the communal life of the family in Brazil.
The World Beyond Silence

The World Beyond Silence Filmed over a year in twelve different locations, this film profiles the year when everything changed. Stories of hope, despair, and a feeling that everyone has had to face: the sense of our own mortality. Twelve intimate portraits from twelve places in a fragile world.
Mission: JOY

Mission: JOY Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu share science-backed wisdom of how to live with joy in troubled times in Mission: JOY.
Auroville – On The Path Of Utopia

Auroville – On The Path Of Utopia For fifty years, Auroville, an experimental city in India, has functioned as a real life utopia. dir. Fred Cebron takes us on a journey inside this unique city
About Heaven

About Heaven Believers, agnostics and atheists all feel the need for a narrative when confronting death. So, what is left of paradise, which once promised eternal happiness?
The Reformist – A Female Imam

The Reformist – A Female Imam The struggles of Sherin, one of the first female Imams in Europe.
Faith

Faith How far does faith take you as a child, or in a cult?
Duma

Duma An inner perspective into the phenomena of sexual abuse in Palestinian society
Kosher Beach

Kosher Beach A group of Orthodox Jewish women arrive at the "Kosher Beach" in Tel Aviv from their closed off community. Here they can be free. When the beach is facing a shut down, the heroines are afraid to lose their island of freedom
Hidden Face

Hidden Face The film is a unique journey into the meeting point of the Jewish faith and the holocaust events, through the Admor of Sanz-Klausenburg's story of heroism
Covered Up

Covered Up A personal journey by Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and head covering, records the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice to their inner world for the first time
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story Legendary political rock star Lee Atwater helped elect Ronald Reagan, created the Bush dynasty, and taught the Republican Party that politics is war. Then Lee repented. Or did he?
Bhutan: The Dictatorship of Happiness

Bhutan: The Dictatorship of Happiness With its exquisite natural beauty and emphasis on ‘Gross National Happiness’ Bhutan seems like a model for the rest of the world. But behind this idyllic façade there lies a more complex reality
Becoming Nobody

Becoming Nobody Everyone's busy being somebody - Ram Dass
King Bibi

King Bibi The Life and Performances of Benjamin Netanyahu
Stories of Our Lives

Stories of Our Lives A series of vignettes based on true stories collected for the Stories Of Our Lives project.
aKasha

aKasha An offbeat Sudanese love story set in a time of civil war.
Beats of the Antonov

Beats of the Antonov BEATS OF THE ANTONOV shows how the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains in Sudan how they deal with civil war. Traditionally music has always been part of daily life but now it has a new role in a society challenge by war.
Wall

Wall Filmmaker Moran Ifergan, takes us on a year-long journey into the women's section of prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, as she remembers the religion she left in her late teens.
Allah in Europe

Allah in Europe What is the future of Islam in Europe? How hopeful can we be of an European, enlightened version of Islam, and will it be possible to overcome the Europeans’ distrust of Islam?
Jaha’s Promise

Jaha’s Promise A documentary about the life and activism of Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian anti-female genital mutilation campaigner who returns to her country of birth to confront the harmful tradition that she and 200 million women and girls have undergone globally.
Happy Purim

Happy Purim Purim, the happiest Jewish holiday. The celebrations are intense and high energy and balanced by other more serious aspects of Purim - giving cash to those in need.
Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta)

Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta) With their parents' divorce, a family is divided between the two conflicting worlds: that of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and of the secular
Torn

Torn Can one be a Catholic priest and an Observant Jew at the same time? 12 years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest, Romuald Waszkinel discovers that he was born to Jewish parents, and that his name was Jacob Weksler.
Jerusalem Cuts

Jerusalem Cuts One war, ten days, three stories: the Old City of Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. For the Brits, it’s the shameful end of 30 years Mandate. For the Jews, it’s the birthday of their State. And for the Palestinians, it’s a catastrophe.
A Match Made in Heaven

A Match Made in Heaven For the first time, orthodox Israeli Jews allow a camera to enter their personal lives on an intimate level, enabling us to discover the practice and belief which guides their approach to marriage and "dating".
In God’s Hand

In God’s Hand The story of three former priests, a Belgian, an Austrian and a German, is related through three intimate confessions, juxtaposed with the filmmaker's own personal story.
Trapped

Trapped With U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive, what remains of a woman's right to choose?
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief A provocative tale of ego, exploitation and lust for power, shining a light on the Church of Scientology, how they attract true believers, and the things they do in the name of religion.
The Armor of Light

The Armor of Light Faith, firearms, and one minister's journey... the story of one Evangelical Reverend trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America
Awake: The Life of Yogananda

Awake: The Life of Yogananda Filmed over three years with the participation of 30 countries around the world, the documentary examines the world of yoga and explores why millions today have turned their attention inwards, bucking the limitations of the material world in pursuit of self-realization.
Connected

Connected An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology. This is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century.
Holy Fire

Holy Fire The Old City of Jerusalem is in the heart of the Middle East conflict. Measuring just a single square kilometer, people from three of the world's great religions rub shoulders in four distinct quarters, against the backdrop of some of the holiest sites in the world.
Life Sentences

Life Sentences An Arab man marries a Jewish woman and they live in quiet harmony within the Arab-Jewish community with their son and daughter. The family unit is broken when they discover that their Arab father is behind dozens of terror attacks.
Scientology. The Truth About A Lie

Scientology. The Truth About A Lie Honest, objective and nuanced, this documentary aims to show why individuals are consciously or unconsciously drawn into the Church of Scientology, asking why they stay and how can one fall prey to such a system.
Boyamba/Belgique

Boyamba/Belgique A compelling and true whodunit that digs into African religion and the heritage of colonisation, based around an iconic photograph which captured a brave act of revolution
Brides of Allah

Brides of Allah Israeli director Natalie Assouline chronicles the lives of women who are serving time in prison for involvement in terrorist attacks in Israel.
Kalash, The Last Infidels of Pakistan

Kalash, The Last Infidels of Pakistan A young woman must choose between converting to Islam, join the modern world or enable her tradition to continue. With the choice of her generation the eternal return of the seasons sanctified by Kalash could fin an end.
In Bed with the Arab Spring

In Bed with the Arab Spring Women played key roles in the revolutions that swept the Middle East. In the aftermath of these political upheavals, they find themselves on the front line of the clash between traditionalism and secularism in modern Islam.
Agnus Dei: Lamb of God

Agnus Dei: Lamb of God Agnus Dei is a courageous documentary on the thorny subject of pedophilia in the Catholic Church. 15 years after his abuse, Jesús is torn between Christian forgiveness and anger toward his sexual predator
White Black Boy

White Black Boy In Tanzania, albinos are threatened by witch doctors who use their body parts to create magic potions. For their own protection, albino children are sent to boarding schools, far away from their families.
Muezzin

Muezzin Following the recent phenomenon in Turkey in which muezzin's compete for the most powerful and beautiful call to prayer , this film investigates the phenomenon of individuality within Islamic culture.
Kashmir: Journey To Freedom

Kashmir: Journey To Freedom After years of armed resistance a new generation of young Muslim Kashmiris decided to lay down their arms and start a nonviolent resistance movement in the hope of finally achieving peace and independence.