An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
An evocative and unsettling journey through christian and also deeply communist Kerala. Amidst red f...
The Athos peninsula in Greece is one of Europe's last secrets. Over 2000 monks live on Athos - cut o...
For centuries, many men and women have left everything to dedicate their lives to contemplation. LI...
50 years ago Jørgen Lauersen Vig bought Hesbjerg Castle, situated in the Danish country side, with t...
Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of expe...
A documentary about the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Netherlands.
This short documentary tells the story of a cheese—the famous Oka—and of the monks who make it. The ...
Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between persona...
The oldest Quebecois Benedictine convent open its gates to a documentary filmmaker for the first tim...
For the first time, cloistered sisters agree to be filmed for one year in all aspects of their lives...
The Sion monastery in Netherlands can hold 120 monks, but only 8 remained in 2013. Together, the rem...
Nepal 1950. A mysterious, unexplored country. The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, was the first European...
Abbess Maria leads the only Orthodox women's monastery in Germany. Together with 13 sisters of inter...
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village i...