Spirituality

14 films
  • Abel

    dir. Dekel Berenson, Paul Wesley
    fab2024

    Life follows its own rhythm in boundless mountains, but a broken heart hurts as much there as in any other corner of the world. Abel, who is 17, does not expect his girlfriend to tell him that they should stop talking to each other. He will receive support from the least expected direction.

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  • Abraham (Ebrahim)

    dir. Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini
    fab2023

    A short, dramatic conversation. A man is trying to elicit some information from a clearly scared woman. Where is she? In a cave. With a fire burning at its entrance. How did she get there? And, first and foremost, what happened to Abraham? The teenage boy went missing. He is not at home. There are only burnt women’s clothes.

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  • All Inclusive

    dir. Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert
    fab2024

    ‘All Inclusive’ takes us on a trip to Morocco with an extremely diverse group of tourists in terms of worldview and character. We get to know the full package of Polish attitudes, vices and characters. Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert once again offer unobvious, original cinema that is difficult to pigeonhole.

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  • Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife (Arsenie. Viața de apoi)

    dir. Alexandru Solomon
    dok2023

    The photo shows a handsome young monk with a mesmerising gaze. Even the portrait alone catches one’s eye, and the legend of his death as a martyr makes Arsenie Boca difficult to forget. Over time, the monk, persecuted by communist authorities, has become a symbol of struggle against the cruel regime and the chief Romanian miracle-worker.

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  • Cry Me Through Hell (Di Yu Cui Lei Bu)

    dir. Jae Yang
    fab2023

    Airports are usually places full of hustle and bustle where crowds pass each other on escalators. This one, however, is different. Noone rushes Mr Wu; what is more, an airline employee starts a friendly conversation with him about his daughter. If everything seems to be in perfect order, why is the viewer becoming suspicious?

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  • Holy Father

    dir. Andrei Dăscălescu
    dok2020

    A child coming to the world provokes future parents to confront their own relatives. For neither of them is it easy as they come from broken homes. Paula has several cautious conversations online, but her partner Andrei, the director of the documentary, decides to set out on a journey to the monastery at the foot of Mount Athos. His father, who is a devout monk now, chose to live there many years ago.

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  • Inheritance

    dir. Matt Moyer, Amy Toensing
    dok2024

    For a number of years the authors of the film accompanied a family from the Appalachians, an exploited region affected by the opioid crisis. In an insightful and empathetic way, they filmed the situation of the youngest generation burdened with poverty and the omnipresence of addictive substances from the very start. Among them, there is Curtis, a resolute boy ready to break out of the vicious circle sucking up his loved ones.

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  • In a Wintry Season

    dir. Mary Posatko
    dok2024

    In the heavily-immigrant and Catholic coal regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Tom and Sheila choose the pageantry, promise and safety of religious life, taking life-long vows of celibacy as teenagers.

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  • I Am the Creation of Fiction (Jestem postacią fikcyjną)

    dir. Arkadiusz Bartosiak
    dok2024

    ‘I have achieved all I wanted in life’, says Andrzej Seweryn, who then grabs us on a dynamic journey through successive professional challenges, which he still takes up with youthful fervour. The camera becomes his everyday companion helping us to see from up close all the emotions as they arise.

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  • Jews by Choice (Czeski film)

    dir. Justyna Gawełko, Tomer Slutzky
    dok2024

    A group of inhabitants of a small Czech town are rebuilding a destroyed synagogue, at the same time trying to give it a new lease of life. A contemporary story of the Jewish identity in one of the least religious countries of the world.

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  • Otherland (Obczyzna)

    dir. Piotr Wysocki
    dok2024

    Poland through the eyes of immigrants. Over the course of 10 years, we follow ups and downs of three characters who have moved to Warsaw from the smallest region of Russia, located in the Caucasus. They are of the same nationality, but their ambitions differ. How will their lives turn out in their new homeland?

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  • The Gospel According to Ciretta (Il Vangelo secondo Ciretta)

    dir. Caroline von der Tann
    dok2024

    Ciretta lives in the streets of old Naples, primarily from theft and prostitution. He is also a street singer and a faithful adherent of the local Virgin Mary cult. In his company, we visit places where plebeian religiousness merges with cheerfulness and human solidarity.

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  • The Last Expedition (Ostatnia wyprawa)

    dir. Eliza Kubarska
    dok2024

    Wanda Rutkiewicz, the most outstanding Polish mountaineer, went missing on 13 May 1992 on her way to Kangchenjunga. The film director, Eliza Kubarska, sets out to follow the same route. She talks to witnesses of the past events and confronts them with theories of Wanda’s disappearance – is it possible that she is still alive?

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  • The Miracle (Cud)

    dir. Ewa Borysewicz
    fab2024

    The life of a young man, a hedonist and a sinner, is turned upside down when his wife becomes pregnant. The protagonist tries to escape, but it does not bring him any comfort. To the contrary, it complicates his life even more. Combining animation with acting, the film borders on experimental cinema.

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    Awards:Special Mention / Special Award