The Annunciation (2011)

Bernadette é uma jovem camponesa que vive na França. Quando ela conta aos vizinhos que viu uma bela senhora no caminho para casa, todos assumem que se trata da Virgem Maria. Bernadette é considerada louca por uns, e santa por outros.

Lucia, mãe solteira, tenta encontrar um equilíbrio entre a vida com a filha adolescente, uma relação amorosa complicada e a sua carreira de topógrafa. O futuro de Lucia fica em risco quando ela se apercebe do perigo ambiental que representa um projecto imobiliário ambicioso, baseado em incorrecções dos mapas municipais.

A história emocionante de sua aparição aos três pastores na aldeia de Leiria, região de Fátima, Portugal, espalhou muito rapidamente a sua devoção pelo mundo. No dia 13 de maio de 1917, em um dia claro, as três crianças, Lúcia, Jacinto e Francisca, estavam pastoreando nas colinas, quando sobre uma pequena azinheira, surge um clarão após um relâmpago, e a figura "de uma Senhora vestida de branco, mais brilhante que o sol, reluzindo mais clara e intensa que um copo de cristal cheio de água cristalina, atravessado pelos raios de sol mais ardente". Ela dirige-se às crianças e lhes pede que rezem o terço todos os dias pela paz do mundo, que peçam pela conversão dos pecadores, e pelo fim da guerra. As aparições continuam, e sempre a Virgem repete que se ore pela paz e pela conversão dos pecadores e que se reze o terço diariamente.

Uma patinadora artística busca sabedoria de um sábio local para curar sua diabetes.

In 1st century BC Palestine, Joseph is a carpenter who wants to travel and see the world, but destiny makes him meet young Mary. The two fall in love and marry. One day, Mary becomes pregnant and tells Joseph an unbelievable truth... He decides to stay on her side, but things won't be easy.

The film begins with the Annunciation: Mary, a young Galilean, virginal conceived the Messiah, the Son of God. Her husband Joseph, a humble carpenter, decided to stay by his side throughout. When Caesar Augustus ordered the Jews to register people, the couple embarks on a journey to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. Meanwhile, Maria Magdalena, a young woman from the same town that Mary, turns away from God and placed in the palace of King Herod, Herodias where convinces her to lose her innocence in the arms of the king's son.

A screwup angel is exiled from the Heaven down to Earth, incarnated as a beggar.

Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (walled-in recluse) so that she can "live in the Virgin's house forever." Based on actual letters that were written about such an Anchoress in 1325, the film follows Christine as she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.

The Nativity is seen through the eyes of three young visitors from the 20th century who are transported back through time to the Holy City

In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary's pilgrimage, a woman crosses the American Southwest playfully deconstructing the woman’s role in a world of roles.

A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

'The Star of Bethlehem' tells the Christmas story in the style of medieval nativity plays. The Three Wise Men from the East follow the star to Bethlehem, but hostile spirits try to stop them on their journey. The King Herod fears the child in the manger, and seeks to kill it, but an angel prevents his evil intentions. The film is an example of how Lotte Reiniger has her silhouette technique enriched by coloured acetate films. The backgrounds have the vibrancy of coloured stained glass windows.

Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous gratitude. He eventually finds a way to.

Marias is a film about the feminine. Visiting the celebrations of the Virgin Mary's (Marias) from Brasil, Cuba, México, Peru and Nicarágua, the director Joana Mariani observes the similarities and disparities among their cultures, and listen to women who have their very particular stories about life, faith and devotion. The result is a very singular film that shows that the image of the Virgin Mary (Maria) is a lot more than a religious figure or the mother of Christ.

In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.

This charming and casually reverent work is an authorized single-screen version of an installation by celebrated video artist Ahtila. Amid stunning snow-draped forests, a women’s theatrical group rehearses a stage version of the Annunciation (the director is played by Aki Kaurismäki’s signature actress Kati Outinen), in the process discovering the parallel worlds of humans and animals, and the proximity of the ordinary to the miraculous.

You'll never look at a statue of the Virgin Mary the same way again. Based on the assertion that divine apparitions aren’t what they always appear to be, Vesuvius is an interesting take on the psychopath with Catholicism smacked against the background. Gio Alvarez provides a convincing portrayal of a madman, and people can even argue if this short inclines toward the supernatural or the psychological. Whereas Grave Torture uses darkness impeccably, Vesuvius plays with light so well.

16-year-old Claudia is a devout Catholic and has promised her mother not to have sex before marriage. However, she is also hopelessly besotted with her older neighbor Jens.