The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.
Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalmi...
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of vi...
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply r...
Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king bani...
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the islan...
An innocent tourist travels to LA and unexpectedly conjures her sister's last night alive. Bold scor...
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from ...
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs ...
Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a n...
In Georgia during WWII Zurikela, an orphan boy, meets Khatia, a blind girl, and vows to help her to ...
Zura, a son of a rich businessman, steals a car of his father’s friend to amuse his classmates. When...
Sophiko, a well-known journalist, seems to be more close to many of her respondents when they need h...
A cult of diners, restaurants and an excessive eating prevails in the City of Joy. Different contest...
In early 20th century Vietnam a nobleman scorns everything Western after his beautiful fiance dies i...
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but ...
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security g...
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only lega...
A 12 year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about “going ...
Della, a 45-year-old wanna-be, coulda-been jazz singer and her lover, Dale, a 23 year old small time...
Four alternating stories about mundane, personal methods of control. Children and a developmentally ...