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Religion

Films that explore the role of faith in both communities and everyday life.

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  • Lyd

    Directed by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland • Documentary • 2024 • 79 minutes

    The film Lyd (the Arabic name of Lod, a city now in Israel) is about a 5,000-year-old bustling Palestinian town that was taken over when Israel was established in 1948. An exploration of what it once was, and what ...

  • Citizen George

    Directed by Glenn Holsten • Documentary • 2024 • 99 minutes

    Citizen George presents the life and work of Philadelphia-based Quaker activist George Lakey, a non-violent revolutionary who has worked his entire life for justice and peace, guided by his ideal of societal transformation.

    Called "a ...

  • Final Vows

    Directed by Victoria Westover • Documentary • 2024 • 84 minutes

    Final Vows chronicles the life of a cloistered order of nuns at Santa Rita Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the high desert of Arizona. The nuns, who take a vow that binds them to remain in the community they entered for life, candi...

  • Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy

    Directed by Stephen Ujlaki, Christopher Jacob Jones • Documentary • With Peter Coyote • 2024 • 89 minutes

    BAD FAITH explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentl...

  • The Apocalyptic is the Mother of All Christian Theology

    Directed by Jim Finn • Documentary • With Linda Montano, Usama Alshaibi, Jim Finn, Begüm Malkoçlar • 2023 • 64 minutes

    A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity. The story of Paul the Apostle’s life, ideology and influence is told by piecing together 20th Century 16mm and ...

  • Indigo

    Directed by Julio López Fernández • Documentary • With Emy Mena, Larissa Maltez, Lilibeth Rivas • 2023 • 65 minutes

    Three young actresses recreate testimonies of women who suffered sexual assault during the Salvadoran civil war in a fable guided by the history of Indigo, which narrates the explo...

  • Polish Prayers

    Directed by Hanka Nobis • Documentary • 2022 • 82 minutes

    It is the women, the tender, difficult, exciting relationships with them, through which Antek learns to really be a man. The film follows him from when he has all the answers to the many questions any young man needs to answer for himself...

  • An Act of Worship

    Directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy • Documentary • With George Shakkour • 2022 • 95 minutes

    Told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States, director Nausheen Dadabhoy offers a counter-narrative of pivotal moments in U.S. history and explores the impact of anti-Muslim rhetoric and policy...

  • Lourdes

    Directed by Thierry Demaizière & Alban Teurlai • Documentary • 2021 • 92 minutes

    Lourdes is a beautiful mountainous village in the foothills of the French Pyrenees that went from a sleepy scenic town to a sacred wonder in 1858, when a 14-year-old peasant girl claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary...

  • Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.

    Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • Documentary • 2021 • 76 minutes

    As we float through the streets of Lesotho, following a cross-bearing woman and an omnipresent figure wearing wings, a tumultuous history of sorrow and suffering between the motherland and its people unravels. The through lin...

  • Echoes of the Invisible

    Directed by Steve Elkins • Documentary • With Paul Salopek, Rachel Sussman, Al Arnold, Anil Ananthaswamy, Lynda Lynch, Losang Samten • 2020 • 106 minutes

    "Echoes of the Invisible" interweaves a mosaic of profound quests. A blind man runs alone through Death Valley as journalist Paul Salopek walk...

  • The Reformist - A Female Imam

    Directed by Marie Skovgaard • Documentary • 2019 • 88 minutes

    After her own divorce, Sherin openly begins granting islamic divorces to women unhappily married and performs inter-faith marriages of Muslim women and non-Muslim men. Having sacrificed her own marriage for the cause, Sherin wants to ...

  • Far Off Sounds Ep 1 - Songs Of The Snake Handlers

    Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 8 minutes

    In Middlesboro, Kentucky, the Full Gospel Tabernacle has a dangerous method for showing their faith in God. They raise and handle deadly snakes with their bare hands. We travelled to Middlesboro to meet Pastor Jai...

  • Far Off Sounds Ep 7 - God's Singing Man

    Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 22 minutes

    In 1966, Dave Bixby burned out on LSD and went temporarily out of his mind. What pulled him back was his encounter with a wandering spiritualist named Don Degraff. Together they formed a prayer group and played m...

  • There Are Jews Here

    Directed by Brad Lichtenstein, Morgan Johnson • Documentary • 2016 • 89 minutes

    THERE ARE JEWS HERE takes you on a journey to places where most never imagined Jews existed, following the untold stories of four once thriving American Jewish communities that can now barely hold a minyan. Most Amer...

  • Deprogrammed

    Directed by Mia Donovan • Documentary • With Ted Patrick • 2015 • 88 minutes

    DEPROGRAMMED chronicles Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick’s anti-cult crusade. His practice of ‘deprogramming’, also known as reverse brainwashing, started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground m...

  • Almost Friends

    Directed by Nitzan Ophir • Documentary • 2014 • 58 minutes

    Two girls meet in the “cloud”. 

    Samar, 12, lives in Lod, a mixed city marred by poverty and crime. She has an Arab Israeli mother and a Palestinian father from the Occupied Territories.

    Linor, 11, lives in Tlamim, a religious Jewish se...

  • Yurumein (Homeland)

    Directed by Andrea E Leland • Documentary • With Cadrin Gill, Edgar Adams • 2014 • 50 minutes

    YURUMEIN (your-o-main) is an important untold story of Carib/Garifuna resistance against slavery that deserves its place in the annals of the African Diaspora. The film recounts the painful past of the ...

  • Not A Still Life

    Directed by Roberta Cantow • Documentary • 2014 • 59 minutes

    Not a Still Life is a portrait of Steve Stone, an older gay, Jewish man who shares the naked truth of the struggles, joys and sorrows of his unconventional life a life full of captivating tales. With both humor and raw honesty, Steve t...

  • Exile, A Myth Unearthed - Part 1

    Directed by Ilan Ziv • Documentary • 2013 • 52 minutes

    The exile of the Jewish people from their homeland in the first century AD, following the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, has been depicted in artwork and lamented in poetry and prayer for nearly 2,000 years. But what if it ne...

  • The Campaign

    Directed by Christie Herring • Documentary • 2013 • 56 minutes

    What inspires everyday people to opt in for something larger than themselves? THE CAMPAIGN follows California's historic No-on-8 campaign to defend same-sex marriage through behind the scenes footage, interwoven with the national his...

  • Exile, A Myth Unearthed - Part 2

    Directed by Ilan Ziv • Documentary • 2013 • 52 minutes

    The exile of the Jewish people from their homeland in the first century AD, following the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, has been depicted in artwork and lamented in poetry and prayer for nearly 2,000 years. But what if it ne...

  • The Revisionaries

    Directed by Scott Thurman • Documentary • With Ron Wetherington, Kathy Miller, Cynthia Dunbar, Don McLeroy • 2012 • 83 minutes

    In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American children. Once every decade, the highly politicized Texas State Board of Ed...

  • Neither Allah, Nor Master!

    Directed by Nadia El Fani • Documentary • 2011 • 71 minutes

    Winner of the International Secular Prize, Tunisian-Franco filmmaker Nadia El Fani, an avowed atheist, takes a personal approach to this cinematic exploration of secularism in the Muslim country of Tunisia before and after the depositio...