Many of the world’s best-known landmarks have been inspired by faith and today more worshippers than ever are flocking to these sacred places. For some people they’re sanctuaries for quiet contemplation. For others, they’re sites for astonishing acts of worship, dangerous challenges and extraordinary deeds of devotion, rarely seen by outsiders..
Le gang de Biker "Douche Larouche" rassemble une bande d'amateurs de moto et de mecanique.Ils construisent des motos pour le plaisir, mais ça ne l'es empêche pas d'avoir de l'ambition. En effet, , ils vont tenter de se faire connaitre en construisant une bécane d'exception. Ils espèrent ainsi faire la une d'un célèbre magazine spécialisé..
Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca, the psychoactive plant brew that has been used for healing and visionary journeys by Amazonian shamans for at least a thousand years..
Doug et Amber étaient follement amoureux et se sont mariés pendant leurs années d'université. Poussée par le «rêve» d'une vie prospère ensemble, Amber a travaillé deux emplois pour permettre à Doug de poursuivre ses études. Peu de temps après, ils ont partagé le succès de son entreprise et ont célébré la naissance de leur belle et précieuse fille. Avance rapide de 15 ans - Amber a continué à s'engager envers son mari et leur mariage, mais Doug est tombé dans les pièges d'un conjoint infidèle, se persuadant qu'il veut plus de la vie. Au milieu de cette agitation, la tragédie frappe, mais la série d'événements qui s'ensuit pourrait bien donner à ce couple une chance de survivre et de retrouver à nouveau l'amour l'un pour l'autre qui avait été promis dans leurs vœux sacrés, 15 ans plus tôt..
Dans des lieux emblématiques aux quatre coins du monde, Frédéric Lenoir, philosophe, sociologue et écrivain, part à la rencontre de ceux qui font l’expérience d’une quête spirituelle, aussi bien religieuse que profane. Un pèlerinage qui mêle les voix de témoins anonymes et de personnalités comme le moine bouddhiste Matthieu Ricard, l'apnéiste Guillaume Néry ou encore l’astrophysicien Hubert Reeves..
As the United States further militarizes its border with Mexico, the Tohono O’odham tribe in southern Arizona grapples with the encroaching surveillance technologies being implemented on its land under the eye of an increasingly watchful Border Patrol..
VICE met up with the directors of Sacred Games, Netflix's first foray into originals in India. Veterans Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane explain their process to us..
The story takes place in the 1940's and in the beginning of the 1960's. Thomas Smith had a religious upbringing! His mother being quite abusive, forbade him from pursuing his passions. This suppression, turned Thomas into a deprived individual resulting in his growing up a tormented soul, constantly fighting his demons, striving for salvation..
Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration..
A bereaved epileptic ditches her pills and follows a mysterious woman to the outskirts of her town, where she slips back into the fearsome yet ecstatic throes of the seizure..
This feature-length documentary chronicles the Sundance ceremony brought to Eastern Canada by William Nevin of the Elsipogtog First Nation of the Mi'kmaq. Nevin learned from Elder Keith Chiefmoon of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Alberta. Under the July sky, participants in the Sundance ceremony go four days without food or water. Then they will pierce the flesh of their chests in an offering to the Creator. This event marks a transmission of culture and a link to the warrior traditions of the past..
The Seven Sacred Laws is a new animated series that follows a young boy on an Indigenous rite of passage of a vision quest. During his spiritual journey, he meets seven sacred animals that teach him how we as people should live our lives on mother earth..
A pair of twins named Blue and Delilah, separated at birth, meet for the first time at their mother's death bed. Their mother tells the twins that it is their fate to fulfill a secret prophecy. The prophecy foretold long ago that they would avenge her death by killing the dark sorcerer Chambers. The only problem is that Chambers is their father - and in a month from now, he'll have the last gruesome ingredient he needs to become immortal. As time runs down, the twins chase Chambers across the world from the corpse-filled catacombs of Paris to the most sacred rituals of the Muskogee Indians in Oklahoma. Along the way, they have to do battle with Chambers' vast army of followers, bringing them face to face with the Mayor of Paris, the Greek god Hermes, a street magician whose frightening tricks are real, and an immortal king with a castle hidden high in the mountains of Belgium..
SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is critically wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute woman who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive. Written by Dale Roloff.
Concert video filmed at The Spectrum in Philadelphia on June 17, 1986 during the second leg of the "Sacred Heart" tour, which featured new guitarist Craig Goldy. Now for the first time the full concert is being released in the original running order, restored from the original 16mm film and with remastered sound..
Dans les faubourgs de N’djaména au Tchad, Amina vit seule avec Maria, sa fille unique de quinze ans. Son monde déjà fragile s’écroule le jour où elle découvre que sa fille est enceinte. Cette grossesse, l'adolescente n’en veut pas. Dans un pays où l'avortement est non seulement condamné par la religion, mais aussi par la loi, Amina se retrouve face à un combat qui semble perdu d’avance….
Ancien écrivain réputé, Alexandre vit avec sa famille dans une maison isolée sur une île suédoise. Le soir de son anniversaire, la télévision annonce qu’une catastrophe nucléaire mondiale vient d’éclater. Le vieil homme adresse alors sa première prière à Dieu et lui fait la promesse d’un grand sacrifice pour que tout redevienne comme avant….
A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England..
Marco is a mess. He's lonely, depressed, and just barely going through the motions of life. When a surprise visit from his past turns him upside down, he discovers what's been holding him back all this time..
The fearless Colombian philosopher-politician-teacher Antanas Mockus and his followers struggle for peace in a country with the longest running internal conflict in the world..
