The Monastery of Sendomir

Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.

Betrothal in a Monastery

The support group for opera addicts is in session, and its participants perform Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery. Rarely performed outside Russia, and consigned to oblivion by Andrei Zhdanov's anti-formalist policies

A Little Monastery in Tuscany

It is a brief documentary which records the life of five Augustinian monks in the little monastery of Castelnuovo dell'Abate, a Tuscan village, as well as the everyday life of people in the small town, from farmers to me

Pskov-Pechersk Monastery

This film was shot in the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, when many elders were still alive, such as Archimandrite Seraphim, Archimandrite Theophan, Archimandrite Alexander, Archimandrite Nathanael, Archimandrite Melchizedek,

The Carthusian Cloistered Monastery

Frescoes of the Flooded Monastery

In 2007, Liza Likhacheva, director of Russia’s State Museum of Architecture, chanced upon a group of 17th-century frescoes in a museum storeroom. The frescos, which illustrate the biblical tale of the Apocalypse, had bee

The Secrets of the Old Monastery

He talked about how to make the public understand the difficult and complicated work of police officers, how to prevent them from committing crimes, and how to strengthen the relationship between the police and the peopl

Love by the Monastery Walls

Life in a Zen Buddhist Monastery in Japan

In Yokohama, novices wake up early in the Soto zen sect Sojiji temple for their zazen and other practices. A film by Michael Rogge, Dutch photographer, videographer and amateur filmmaker, best known for his depictions of

A Quiet Monastery

“Even someone who is not an actor acts while on set, though he is playing himself,” Eisner says in an interview. “A Quiet Monastery” is such a documentary performance. The performer is Bardiashvili, a watchman who looks

Tshultrim Danba and Tholing Monastery

Tholing Monastery (Tuolin si 托林寺) is the oldest monastery in the Ngari Prefecture of western Tibet. It is situated in Tholing (Zanda), Zanda County, near the Indian border of Ladakh — more than 1,800 km from Lhasa. It wa

Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery

After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the R

The Empty Monastery, Back Then

A documentary about the poems and poetic life of Heydar Yaghma, the brickmaker from Neyshabur

The Sinking Monastery of Light

Residents of a Himalayan town sinking under its own weight reflect on the meaning and memory of home.

Seek nothing, Just sit: Life in a Zen Monastery

A year of zen practice at Antaiji Temple in Japan. Many non-Japanese gather at this Soto school zen temple to do zazen 1,800 hours per year and live the zen ideal of self-sufficiency.

Sinnful Infants Damned to Lust Behind Monastery Walls

The German punk band "Terrorgruppe" was found in 1993 and broke up in 2005. The band was essential for the developement of German punk. Songs like "Keine Airbags für die CSU" or "Mein Skateboard ist wichtiger als Deutsch

Sorrowful Song in the Buddhist Monastery

The story of a man and a woman who fell in love without knowing that they were half-brother and sister.

Tales of Mother Frosya about the Diveyevo Monastery

The last Diveyevo nun, Mother Margarita, tells not only the historical, but, most importantly, the spiritual truth - about how the revolution was carried out, how the monastery of St. Seraphim was ruined, how a handful o

One Day in the Life of a Men's Monastery

Documentary about daily life of a Men's Monastery in Abkhazia

St. Michael's Golden-domed Monastery. 900 years

Against the backdrop of historical events, from the time of Kyivan Rus' until the arrival of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Ukraine, the film deals with the history of the construction, flourishing, destruction