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A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

When Dolly's fiancé abandons her in the Nevada desert, her worst nightmare becomes her only comfort.

After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.

When Catholic priests with pedophile pasts begin turning up dead, a small town cop's investigation unearths buried secrets that begin to implicate an entire community.

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.

Father Clemence, a man burned by his faith, has taken in search of retribution. Along the way, he is joined by Maria, a hitch hiking punk, who is fleeing her home in Mexico City. Together, the odd couple embark on a roller coaster of adventure that is at times both harrowing and heart warming.

A priest and a grieving wife.

When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from them and is mainly heard the phone. Most of all she wants to reunite a family that simply doesn’t work — like a defective TV set. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13 year old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration. “Communion” reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that failure is not final. Especially when love is in question.

After killing one of his parishioners, a troubled, paranoid priest attempts to hide the body before being questioned by the police.

A prequel in the franchise. Plot TBA.

Lesbian friends over 50 embark on a trip together and, away from the world’s gaze, celebrate their friendship, desire, and freedom. Over the weekend, they fully embrace the wholeness of a reality they already carry, strengthening the bonds that unite them.

A communion portrait of a young girl filmed and lit in the classic style of 50s Hollywood and European classic cinema.

Life under lockdown: Sara works from home, helping people distressed by COVID-19. Her husband Kais needs constant antipsychotic medication but has run out of his supply. Outside, the city is like a ghost town. How will they survive this confinement without sinking into depression? Can their marriage ever return to normal?

May, 1987. While returning from a nightclub and after having taken drugs, new girl in town Sara and her friend Rebe find a doll wearing a communion dress. From that moment, their lives will become a living hell.

Neighborhood fathers get together for a regular ritual sacrifice.

Holding a baby, holding someone, holding something, holding faith are spaces of comfort felt within embodied gestures of communion.

When a beloved gay Catholic school teacher is fired for marrying his husband, he refuses to disappear quietly. Through music and personal storytelling, Communion follows his path from heartbreak to resolve, inviting audiences to wrestle with faith, conscience, and the true meaning of love and Church.

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.

A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties.

An Annabelle fan film submitted to the 2017 My Annabelle Creation short film contest. Inspired by and based on The Conjuring/Annabelle cinematic universe created by James Wan. Jasmine shares her final moments with her beloved doll, Annabelle, before she joins in communion with her forever.

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

A Filipino-American woman grapples with going behind her strict Catholic sister's back to buy condoms for her 14-year-old niece.

Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.

Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to increasingly questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.

A protective woman has raised her young niece in the countryside as her own daughter. When her sister suddenly returns, it triggers a sense that she may be back to reclaim her offspring or to implement even more ominous plans.

After receiving his first communion, Pablo can’t stop thinking about Sebastián, the beautiful altar boy.

An odyssey about two women trying to stop a young girl from biting the Host at her First Communion.

José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.

A film on Eucharist in the Episcopal Church that relates the experience of liturgy to the experience of life everyday. The film expresses this relationship by focusing on the lives of four people in the congregation: a street person, a Vietnamese refugee, a Hispanic single mother, and a well-to-do businessman. Scenes from their lives are woven through the liturgical celebration.

A spirited 7-year-old, growing up in Dublin in the 1970's, can't wait to make her Catholic Holy Communion. The only problem is - she's a Jew.

A boy fears that his upcoming first holy communion is actually a flesh-eating zombie initiation rite.

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