Polen im August, 1945. Ein Kloster in der Nähe von Warschau birgt ein dunkles Geheimnis: Der Großteil der Schwesternschaft ist schwanger,...

Regisseur Philip Gröning dokumentiert das Leben im legendenumwobenen Kloster La Grande Charteuse in Frankreich. Sechs Monate lang war er dort zu...

For centuries, many men and women have left everything to dedicate their lives to contemplation. LIBRES, is a journey into the interior of man. We...

Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the...

The oldest Quebecois Benedictine convent open its gates to a documentary filmmaker for the first time. Observed up close, life behind its walls is...

Curly Mulligan is the pupil who brings the headmaster a full fry-up every morning. When the head finds a hair in his breakfast, all hell breaks loose.

This short documentary tells the story of a cheese—the famous Oka—and of the monks who make it. The Trappists in Oka, Quebec, began...

An evocative and unsettling journey through christian and also deeply communist Kerala. Amidst red flags and altar boys, between the sea and the...

Benedetti dal Signore is a 2004 Italian comedy television series set in a convent of Franciscan friars.

Much more than just the world's largest Cross: the Valley of the Fallen [Valle de los Caídos] is history carved in stone. It's the Basilica,...