Tag

Religion

21–29 of 29 films

  • by Mária Horváth

    When the Lord created the sky, the earth, and the water, he was content. But soon, he began to feel lonely. He brooded for a moment, and then he began to knead a bit of clay. He opened the oven and started to bake a man…

    • Fantasy
    • Family
    • Musical
  • Catican

    2016 16+ 2 min

    by Asja Trost, Mery Gobec, Inês Sampaio

    Role of a man is replaced by a cat and the religious tyranny. We follow a day of one of the humans and the process of the hegemony.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Captain Arbanas Marko

    1967 Adults 8 min

    by Zlatko Bourek

    The film is based on the old folk song »DOČEPALE GA SE«. Captain Arbanas Marko wakes up from a drunken hangover, his head has no strength, but as soon as he manages to stand on his feet, he grabs the cat, which magically restores his strength. He is again the bravest, the strongest, like yesterday, he kills the ox with one stroke of the cat. His presence gave strength to the boys of the ball, which reverberated over three hills and valleys. Across three hills and a valley where three beautiful sisters live, where Arbanas rushes madly, promises them and brings them to his drunken company as a trophy. Marko falls again at the mamuran mountain from which three white knights will impale him on the cross. Marko still manages to see who the three white knights are at the posthumous bully…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Black Volga

    2015 Adults 4 min

    by Marta Wiktorowicz

    During the black and white days a group of neighbours share a conversation that leads to the answer of a dreadful mystery. What happened to the missing child.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Away from Home – Rob

    2020 16+ 6 min

    by Sophia Twigt

    Rob takes a drag on a neighbor’s crack pipe, his bills start piling up and one day, a letter arrives: his house is going to be repossessed. He packs a tent, gets on his bike and starts cycling.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Tragicomedy
  • Altötting

    2020 Adults 11 min

    by Andreas Hykade

    As a young boy I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. We spent many decades together. First, she offered me protection from the cold. As a teenager, she introduced me to the secrets of love. But as an adult, this love became flawed. I began to see behind my beloved’s facade. And I discovered her horrifying side.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Alef B’Tamuz

    2018 Adults 6 min

    by Yael Reisfeld

    In the old Jewish cemetery in the city of Safed, people come from afar to pray on the graves of rabbis from the golden age of Kabbalah in the 16th century, sometimes with hope to find redemption to their life problems.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • After

    2018 Adults 5 min

    by Matouš Valchář

    What will be after death? A lot of people thinking about this question. A lot of groups have very different opinion but majority of tham have one thing similar. Almost all religions are convinced that they are right. I wrote this movie, with my friend Karel Vžtrovsků, in time when we were slowly breaking out of the Christian prison in our minds, where we grew up and where we were imprisoned for a long time.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • A Gong

    2018 10+ 6 min

    by Zozo Jhen, Marine Varguy, Yen-Chen Liu & others

    A journey of a 7 year-old boy’s acceptance of his grandpa’s death in a traditional Taiwanese funeral.

    • Drama
    • Family