Search Results for "confessional"

After two mysterious deaths at a college on the same night, seven students somehow connected receive invitations to a confessional booth hidden on the campus.

A documentary filmmaker from Manila sets out to cover the Sinulog Festival in Cebu, but gets in over his head when he meets a retired, corrupt politician who is ready to tell all.

James is a devout Catholic. He has lived his life by the book. He has been a faithful husband, a strong father, and a hard worker. Now facing down the barrel of middle-age, and growing more detached in his marriage, he has begun to wrestle with emotions he never imagined having to deal with. James has started to realize that he is attracted to members of the same sex. After one fateful night, in which James decides to hook up with another man he meets at a gay club, he goes to confession for guidance on how to reconcile these feelings with the life he has already made for himself.

A game of hide-n-seek between teenage friends in a small town takes a turn when Skye hides inside a Church confessional booth.

A teenage Catholic girl has been dreaming of 'unnatural passions' and feels she must confess to her school priest. As she stumbles over her carefully prepared speech choking on words that do not ring true she learns the delicious joy of owning her desires.

A movie in the style of a documentary about a sexual assault and the systemic failings of a sexual assault victim by her family, support systems, and government.

While on vacation in Venice, author Rohan Kishibe is mistaken for a priest and hears the confession of a horrific crime.

Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Quebec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrigue where the answer to the mystery lies.

Save your trip to church using your own Confessional 9000! And confess yourself when and where you please!

An Italian documentary that questions the age old tradition of sex being a sin and being Catholic in Italy, and how the two go hand in hand. From the mid 1970s, it's a forgotten, but very accurate portrait of Italy at the time, capturing the most sensitive problems faced by Catholic women like prenuptial intercourse, open weddings, and homosexuality. Interlaced with real comments from priests, psychologists, sexologists and social workers, the film tells the story of the difficult path Italians had to walk to achieve sexual freedom.

I started to re-examine my body. Taking my own breast hyperplasia as an opportunity, I began to think about what I have experienced as a woman. ‘Why do women have to give birth’ ‘Why menstruation is a shame’ Those “stones” that I perceive as a woman always hurt me. However, I will keep smashing such stones in this endless cycle of dreams. Over and over, smash it.

A disturbed sculptor assumes the identity of a small town priest and designs a game of divine madness for a unsuspecting town.

After losing her eldest daughter, Maria Cordero struggles between her guilt and faith as she attends Mass a year later with her younger daughter, Analyn.

Dashboard Confessional plays an intimate set at the MTV studios in New York 2002 during the peak of their fame.

Dashboard Confessional perform the songs of R.E.M. Automatic For The People

Shot at Riverside Revival Church in Nashville, Tennessee, this livestream event marks Dashboard Confessional's return to performing after vocalist Chris Carabba's motorcycle accident.

When a conflicted seminary student struggles with his desires that call his moral integrity into question he enlists the help of a new AI, Reba.

A Confessional Documentary is a 1-minute long short film directed by noted film critic Gene Siskel, originally shown alongside his partner Roger Ebert's short film (Citizen Yuppie) on the 1987 broadcast of their annual Holiday Gift Guide program. It was shot entirely on a (then-new) Fisher Price PixelVision PXL2000 low-fidelity camcorder in monochrome on compact audio cassette, inspiring Richard Linklater to utilize the same technique in his 1991 feature SLACKER. The film recontextualizes the image of Roger Ebert's face to provide some humorous jabs at the nature of film criticism.

An anxious screenwriter, eager to raise money for his next film, invites an old friend over for dinner, but as wounds from the past come to light, he soon realizes that his friend has changed.

Two anguished characters meet unexpectedly in a confession box. One admits to starting a war. A previous Middle East encounter amplifies their agony. Are we also prepared to question the meaning of an examined life?

A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

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

Take a peak under the surface of any gay man, and who knows what you'll find? Confessions, an anthology of disclosures from the recesses of the gay male psyche, goes some way to answer that very question. Spanning themes that are dark, sexy, intense, funny, romantic and shocking, Confessions turns a spotlight on characters you don't often get to see- but will not want to turn away from.

A thriller directed by Bradford May focusing on a catholic priest dealing with a serial killer's confession and a murder investigation.

A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.

Fiona seeks refuge in her local church, escaping the evil within her house only to find that something far darker sits in the confession booth next to her. This short film is one of the five winning short films which were made for “My Annabelle Creation" competition as a promotion for the film Annabelle: Creation.

Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?

Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.

A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall and James Caan. Showcasing behind-the-scenes footage and providing a much deeper look inside the world of filmmaking including some moments of insight that are hard to believe.

Black Hole Radio is an installation that consists of taped confessions of callers of the New York City Phone Confession Line and video images. The Phone Confession Line is based on anonymous callers ringing to confess on things they had done or thought like adultery, theft, murder or regrets. Thereafter anybody could call and listen to the confessions. Although making a confession was free, listening to a confession costs money. After Cohen got his hands on the confessions, he used them as an audio heartbeat to accompany video-images of every day life in New York City he had taken over the years. This installation is a portrait of the city with its dark secrets, hushed voices and nocturnal images. In this way Cohen tries to bring across an experience to the viewer that relies on absence, waiting and the effort to hear something in the dark.

A mockumentary about a small town church preparing for a community chili cookoff while searching for a new pastor and keeping their building from falling apart.

Strung together by the Catholic Church, a confession booth, and the Rosary, All Saints is a voyeuristic and light-hearted character study and commentary on womanhood, religion, and culture.

Seen through the eyes of Rebecca Gibbs, a young abuse victim, I DON'T WANNA FEEL NOTHIN' NO MORE is an intense drama that chronicles three generations of incest among the women in one family as they struggle to maintain their strength and dignity against almost overwhelming odds.

Cryptozoologists journey into the forests of Kentucky to gather evidence of a canine/human hybrid.

Documentary detailing the recording of Dashboard Confessional's album "A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar", featuring live performances and in-studio footage.