21st Century Nuns

Les Scandales de « La Religieuse »

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary, cause

2023

Stvořil jsem tebe

1991

Breaking Habits

A former corporate executive fleeing a bad marriage becomes a cannabis farmer, forms a company called Sisters of the Valley and takes on the persona o

2019

Sisterhood

Documentary on a politically active group of nuns of Montreal.

2019

Leur souffle

2019

The LA Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

The LA Sisters are outrageous, controversial, always fabulously dressed men and women who feel they are called to minster to the community as 21st cen

2006

Faraway

After being estranged from his family, we observe a young man over four seasons and from far away as he navigates his solitude – all the while attempt

2021

The Nun

This is a documentary about a renowned precentor and a church composer Irina Denissova who suddenly becomes a nun in the apex of her career. At the sa

2010

Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy

Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictato

2021

Religion and the People

Documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the heart of the British Experience.

1940

So Clever Are German Spies

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

1914

Nidhal

Between reality and animation, the story of Nidhal is told, a young homosexual Tunisian who defended individual freedoms in Tunisia through his work i

2022

Hell's Angel

Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. He probes her campaigns against contraception and abor

1994

Dáma v čiernom

1963

Mother Teresa

We follow the daily activities of Mother Teresa and her nuns, in service to the poor of India and the world. Mother Teresa attends to the basic needs

1986

It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse, But the Situation in Which They Live

Two queer Brazilians go skinny dipping in a lake where they talk about love, sex, colonialism and migration, on a pandemic summer afternoon in Berlin.

2021

Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles

A look back at "La Cage aux Folles", which ran non-stop for five years, from February 1973, on the stage of the Théâtre du Palais Royal in Paris. At a

2023

Without Mercy

The animated documentary - a mix of live-action footage and animation - tells of the brutal everyday life in the orphanages of the 60s / 70s. Often le

2019

Homosexualité, les derniers condamnés

Between the end of the Second World War and the abolition of the "offence of homosexuality" in 1982, 10,000 sentences were handed down in France. Sent

2022

Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln

An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never befor

2024