Als een van de jongste directeuren van een abortuskliniek was Abby Johnson betrokken bij meer dan 22.000 abortussen. Ze gaf veel vrouwen advies bij het maken van deze lastige keuze. Haar passie voor het recht van een vrouw om te kiezen brengt haar ertoe woordvoerster te worden van de organisatie "'Planned Parenthood".
Een 17-jarige tiener uit Missouri, genaamd Veronica, ontdekt dat ze zwanger is geraakt, een ontwikkeling die haar dromen om toegelaten te worden tot Ivy League college in de weg kan zitten, inclusief de carrière die erop zal volgen
De verslaggever Jacques krijgt op een dag een mysterieus telefoontje van het Vaticaan. In een stadje in het zuidoosten van Frankrijk beweerde een achttienjarig meisje dat ze een verschijning van de Heilige maagd Maria zag. Het gerucht is snel verspreid waardoor duizenden pelgrims zich naar de plaats van de vermeende verschijningen begeven. Jacques heeft geen voeling met de godsdienst, maar stemt ermee in mee te werken aan het onderzoek naar de gebeurtenissen.
Stefano is een verlegen en gevoelige tiener die net zijn studie in Zwitserland heeft afgerond en overweegt monnik te worden. Maar zijn vader, een rijke Milanese uitgever, die de ambitie had om zijn zoon hem te zien opvolgen, weigert en neemt hem mee op een cruise met een jonge vrouw om dit idee uit zijn hoofd te zetten...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A father sacrifices an animal on the day of Eid al-Adha according to the traditions and customs of the past. According to the old custom, he gives the last bowl of water to the goat, but his son tries to save the goat.
The father angrily looks for them.
The boy makes the goat run away and puts the rope around his neck instead of the goat. This short film refers to the story of Ismail and Ibrahim in Islam.
Under the name of religion, we have marketed colours, faiths, and, moreover, our precious lives. white has one such; Who creates such distinction? Thousands of years ago, someone made some rules that were appropriate at the time. Still, we are hanging on to the same theory and fighting among ourselves under disharmony. It's our honest effort to throw some light on religious disharmony by using personification as a tool. It's our life!! Let's Live!!!! Let them live because its "their Life" also!!!!
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.
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.
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 last true rebellion is death to the world. To be crucified to the world and the world to us.