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The Innocents (2016)

Posted onMay 20, 2026May 31, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

In a Polish convent just after World War II, nuns endure the effects of a nightmare. These sisters have more reasons than usual to want to remain isolated, but their situation demands assistance from the outside. They reach out, tentatively, to Mathilde, a French doctor Read More …

CategoriesTop 25 Films Directed by Women, Top 25 ListsTagsAnne Fontaine, French language films, post-World War II, women directors

The Arts & Faith Top 25 Films Directed by Women

Posted onMay 18, 2026June 1, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

For 2026, members of Arts & Faith curated a Top 25 list of spiritually significant films directed by women. The theme was one the group had talked of doing for years. After releasing the most recent edition of the Top 100 list in 2025, members Read More …

CategoriesTop 25 Films Directed by Women, Top 25 ListsTagswomen directors

Superman (2025)

Posted onMarch 7, 2026May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

It says something about the current sociopolitical climate when it is more striking that a superhero is kind than that he can fly and has laser vision. Audiences wearied by news cycles seemingly crafted by Lex Luther’s rage baiting monkey bots will find relief in Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsJames Gunn, superheroes

The Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury — 2019

Posted onJanuary 14, 2026May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Each years the Arts & Faith group curates a group of 10 films they would recommend for Christian audiences. The reasons a film is recommended can vary widely. This list has been reconstructed six years after its inception. As a member who is still fairly Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsArts & Faith, best of year lists, Parasite

The Life of Chuck

Posted onJanuary 13, 2026May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

It’s been said that, just as God is triune, human beings are made up of three parts: mind, body, and soul. Though this simplification ignores the fact that the body and what we think of as the mind are both incredibly complex and themselves made Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsbook adaptation, Mike Flanagan

It Was Just an Accident

Posted onJanuary 13, 2026May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Is it ever right to enact revenge? This is the main question that Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) wrestles with in It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller that works as a rebuke to the oppressive Iranian regime. Vahid happens upon the chance to enact Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsIranian stories, Jafar Panahi, Persian cinema, political thriller

Frankenstein (2025)

Posted onJanuary 12, 2026May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

When a story has been adapted hundreds of times since 1910—across countless mediums—the obvious question becomes: do we really need another version? Director Guillermo del Toro answers that question with confidence and care, offering not a retelling, but a re-interrogation of Frankenstein. Set at the Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsGuillermo del Toro, horror

A Little Prayer

Posted onJanuary 11, 2026May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

“You want something to love that’s all your own. Something that’s all yours. Well, you have never had children. They don’t belong to you, and they will break your heart.” “We’ll just be here when they need us.” These quotes are said by Bill (David Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsAngus MacLachlan

Train Dreams

Posted onJanuary 10, 2026May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.”  -Job 33:15-16. Speaking of childhood in Denis Johnson’s source novella, Robert Grainier (brought here Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsbook adaptation, Clint Bentley, period drama

The Phoenician Scheme

Posted onJanuary 10, 2026May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Prayer has been at the heart of cinema in 2026 in a way that it usually is not, from Wake-Up Dead Man to Sentimental Value to A Little Prayer. Even Superman, one could argue, as a helpless boy clings to his name as men with guns point them at him, following Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsblack comedy, Wes Anderson

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