A 17-year old Missouri teen discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
Come uno dei più giovani direttori di clinica Planned Parenthood della nazione, Abby Johnson è stata coinvolta in più di 22.000 aborti e ha consigliato innumerevoli donne sulle loro scelte riproduttive. La sua passione per il diritto di una donna a scegliere l'ha portata a diventare una portavoce di Planned Parenthood, combattendo per promulgare la legislazione per la causa in cui credeva così profondamente. Fino al giorno in cui vide qualcosa che cambiò tutto.
Jacques Mayano, reporter di guerra per un quotidiano francese, viene reclutato dal Vaticano per indagare su un'apparizione avvenuta in un villaggio del sud-est della Francia. Anna, orfana e novizia, afferma di aver visto la Vergine Maria. Lo straordinario evento, velocemente diffuso, ha condotto migliaia di pellegrini sul luogo della presunta epifania. Jacques, estraneo a questo mondo, accetta nondimeno di far parte della commissione d'inchiesta canonica, applicando la prassi empirica al trascendente.
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
Dopo la pubblicazione de «I versi satanici» nel 1988, lo scrittore britannico-indiano Salman Rushdie ha passato più di dieci anni perseguitato, recluso e sotto protezione della polizia. L'ayatollah Khomeini, il leader della giovane rivoluzione islamica iraniana, lo condannò a morte in una fatwa per questo romanzo, ritenuto blasfemo.
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.
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.
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.
Nel 2019, alcuni considerano ancora l'omosessualità come una malattia da curare. Concentrandosi sui movimenti con radici negli Stati Uniti, che attingono sia alla religione che alla psichiatria per giustificare le cosiddette terapie di conversione, un'indagine sulle conseguenze devastanti di alcune pratiche che sembrano riuscire a evitare qualsiasi controllo da parte delle autorità pubbliche europee.
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.
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.
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.
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.