A documentary on the Jain practice of santhara, where a person takes a vow of abstinence and starves to death, has won a Special Jury award at the recently concluded Kolkata Shorts International Film...
“The Path of Zarathustra“, a movie that touches upon the Parsi community and their faith Zoroastrianism, will hit the Indian screens in September. “It is an extremely important film to be seen by all....
The series chronicles five candidates as they arrive at Paris’s Capuchin Seminary. Despite being a tad overcrowded and a bit formulaic, the opening episode shows promise. The pilot episode has to introduce each of...
How does the BBC list compare to the 1995 Vatican film list? The Vatican list, published by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications in honor of the centenary of the motion picture, is both...
In thinking about the future of the church, it might be helpful to draw a loose correlation between church attendance and media (film and television) consumption. There’s a segment of church-goers that might be...
There are a lot of animated re-tellings of the story of Moses. More even, perhaps, that there are about Jesus. As a result, I’ve never really tried to track them all down,nevertheless, when I...
Did you know there are plenty of Bollywood actresses who left their religion and adopted other faiths. Even the most notable of Bollywood actresses have left their religion, mostly for love and marriages. Here...
Joseph is lost. As a 20 year old, he struggles to reconcile his Christian beliefs with his mother’s Buddhist tradition. This is clear when he refuses to pray to offer a joss stick to...
Su Re (The King) debuted at the Turin Film Festival, but made a bit more of a splash when it was released at the Rotterdam Film Festival a few months later. … We see no...
The Religious Short Film Prize is an opportunity for film-makers to explore the religious quest through a powerful contemporary medium. Religious themes are as varied as human beings are in the world. Film-makers...