religious persecution

After winning yet another battle, Jorge is decorated as the new captain of the army, and now finds himself faced with his greatest challenge, whether to be faithful to his faith or succumb to the excesses of Emperor Diocletian.

Michael Carey's world turns upside-down when the successful marketing executive catches a glimpse of the near future. These visions could not come at a worse time for his marriage, his job or his friendships. Michael struggles to understand the meaning of the messages and must convince his loved ones that Jesus will soon return.

A father sacrifices an animal on the day of Eid al-Adha according to the traditions and customs of the past. According to the old custom, he gives the last bowl of water to the goat, but his son tries to save the goat. The father angrily looks for them. The boy makes the goat run away and puts the rope around his neck instead of the goat. This short film refers to the story of Ismail and Ibrahim in Islam.

A short documentary about one man’s sacrifice to survive in America.

This 1919 silent is the first American film based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories as Fiddler on the Roof, but produced 50 years before the blockbuster musical. Unlike most adaptations of Aleichem’s work, Broken Barriers (Khavah) focuses not on Tevye the milkman, but on his daughter Khavah, who falls in love with the gentile boy Fedka and must navigate the reverberations from this with both her community and her family.

Abbey is a typical American teenager who's strong in her Christian faith and popular with her friends. But when she accompanies her photojournalist dad on a trip to China, she gets a glimpse into an unknown world where people suffer for their beliefs. Now, she's embroiled in a plot involving illegal Bibles, the police and a mysterious secret agent. Amid the intrigue, Abbey vows to bring the news about the persecuted faithful back to America.

A Hezbollah suicide bomber breaks silence to reveal the inner workings of the organization and his involvement in a narcotrafficking alliance with the FARC. Discover the hidden agendas between Iran, Latin American governments and organized crime.

In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the spectre of retaliatory violence looms over the Sikh community of an Old Delhi neighbourhood.

Iranian Taboo tells the harrowing story of Baha'i woman Nadereh and her 14-year-old daughter who decide to sell all their belongings and leave their home in Isfahan to take refuge in the west. The film takes us across continents from Turkey to Israel and from the USA to Iran. We are given unique insights - from the underground Baha'i university (BIHE) to Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, from the suppressed Baha'i peasants of the Ivel village in the northern province of Mazanraran to Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A story set in 1910s Yorkshire. Sister Mary-Beaumont, a transgender nun, has her faith tested by a wild-spirited Postulate named Florence as a hidden romance blooms between the two

A determined artist submits his papers in what seems to be a visa office for a foreign land. After vigorous interrogation, and insistence on his part to get through, We find out that he is in fact in purgatory, and is pleading his case to go through to the afterlife, ceasing his existence on earth.

Ibpa Mi explores the journey of Lylia, a devout young woman whose deep-rooted religious beliefs mask a hidden truth that threatens to shatter her perception of reality.