All Saints
Strung together by the Catholic Church, a confession booth, and the Rosary, All Saints is a voyeuristic and light-hearted character study and commentary on womanhood, religion, and culture.
Strung together by the Catholic Church, a confession booth, and the Rosary, All Saints is a voyeuristic and light-hearted character study and commentary on womanhood, religion, and culture.
Mackenzie Boyle
Anges' lover
Vanessa Leticia Jette-Naya
Saint Agnes
Ross McKercher
Rita's Lover
Ameli Sofia Pereira-Cota
Saint Maria
Paz Del Carmen Vargas
Saint Rita
Strung together by the Catholic Church, a confession booth, and the Rosary, All Saints is a voyeuristic and light-hearted character study and commentary on womanhood, religion, and culture.
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.
The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sacramento Santos,” Father Ángel begins Julian’s instruction into the mysteries of “perfect obedience,” whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superior’s actions.
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...