Bobby Griffith (Ryan Kelley), un chico adolescente gay, se suicida a causa de la intolerancia religiosa de su madre (Sigourney Weaver), una devota cristiana. Después de este trágico hecho, su madre se replanteará su escala de valores y su posición ante la homosexualidad... Basada en un suceso real ocurrido en los años setenta detallado en el libro homónimo de Leroy Aarons.
Parvana es una chica de once años que vive en la capital de Afganistán, Kabul, durante el periodo de dominio de los talibanes. Al ser su padre detenido, los miembros de la familia se quedan sin recursos y, debido a que las mujeres tienen prohibido ganar dinero, deciden transformar a Parvana en un chico para poder trabajar.
Mary (Jean Malone) quiere hacer un acto de buena voluntad "divina", como "curar" a su novio gay... mediante el sexo. Pero el resultado tiene poco de celestial, y de ser popular en el instituto ultrareligioso donde estudia Mary pasa a pertenecer al grupo de "desplazados".
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1 - During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back no matter what it takes. 2 - When Sutezo is forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, he becomes friends with a young girl named Sato in process. Together, they both escape and try to get by on scams and petty theft.
La historia de The Satanic Temple, un movimiento controvertido que combina religión y activismo con el aparente propósito de cuestionar los fundamentos básicos de la sociedad estadounidense.
Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher.
Follows Nasir, a middle-aged street salesman, who belongs to the Islamic minority and who lives with his mother Fatima, his wife Taj and his cousin Iqbal in a densely populated ghetto. As his day unfolds we find him to be a nimble romantic, marshalling a love of love, song, children, friendship, and even God to rise into something resembling a life well lived. But the increasing communal bigotry has other plans.
After winning yet another battle, Jorge is decorated as the new captain of the army, and now finds himself faced with his greatest challenge, whether to be faithful to his faith or succumb to the excesses of Emperor Diocletian.
Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
Hell and Mr. Fudge is an 2012 American drama film directed by Jeff Wood and written by Brian Phillip Stoddard. Based on a true story, the film stars Mackenzie Astin as Edward Fudge, an Alabama preacher who has been hired to determine the existence of hell.
A young German/Bolivian Mennonite risks his life to escape his strict religious community to find love and freedom in the city.
Acting as both pseudo-sequel to, and remake of, Cutting Moments, Buck's follow-up changes the focus from the matriarch to the father... or, more fittingly, the many fathers... and the sins they pass down. Eschews explicit violence for a more psychological approach, to a no less harrowing result.
A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, speak a Turkic language and practice the Muslim religion. The Uighurs suffer brutal cultural and political oppression by Xin Jinping's tyrannical government: torture, disappearances, forced labor, re-education of children and adults, mass sterilizations, extensive surveillance and destruction of historical heritage.
En Uganda, una nueva enmienda permitirá castigar a los homosexuales con la pena de muerte. David Kato –el primer hombre de Uganda en “salir del armario”- y sus compañeros activistas trabajan a contrarreloj para derrocar esta legislación mientras luchan para sobrevivir a las continuas persecuciones. Pero nadie, ni siquiera los directores/productores, está preparado para el fatal asesinato que llevará al movimiento a su auge y se expandirá por todo el mundo.
Two men in a village are beaten up by a group of youngsters. A female detective tries to find out why the two do not want to report the assault.
Documentary - A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film explores an emerging ultra Right Wing mass movement seeking dominion over all aspects of contemporary American society. The film weaves archival video, contemporary Christian Nationalist movement propaganda (recruiting videos, apocalyptic/military videogame imagery, etc.) and original investigative material) to create an intense examination of the totalistic mindset and its will to power.
When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.
This documentary portrays the way in which attacks against a twisted concept of “gender ideology” in four countries are being used to gain political power by right-wing conservative politicians supported by conservatives in the Catholic and evangelical churches.