To address the social crisis, Chiken - a buddhist monk - throws himself into various tasks such as a suicide helpline, in his temple in Yamanashi. In Fukushima, his old mate Ryûgyô - whose temple was wrecked by the tsunami - lives in a portacabin and works on construction sites.

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...
The influential life and powerful messages of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh are explored ...

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist m...

A feature length documentary about the intense connections made between strangers over the telephone...

The Odd Monk is a personal journey through modern day Buddhism. German first time Filmmaker Jesco Pu...

Four men from a nomadic Tibetan tribe undertake their annual, ritualistic pilgrimage to a sacred sal...

More than 50 years ago, the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition was driven from its refuge deep within th...

In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named...

30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been...

When Danish filmmakers Mira Jargil and Christian Sønderby Jepsen try to find balance in their stress...

Weaving together original film and photographic archives, A CLOUD NEVER DIES tells the story of a hu...

This moving documentary profiles a former Buddhist monk who runs a home for orphaned children in the...

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted...
Four monks, a royal scholar, and their American guru are fighting to save Bhutan's sacred arts while...

In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Fi...

Peyangki is a dreamy and solitary eight-year-old monk living in Laya, a Bhutanese village perched hi...