Ritual Movies

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on nine ritual celebrations ranging from the Moray...

Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host family...

After her mother’s death, Sarah lives isolated with her aunt. One night, she confesses experiencing the feeling of a presence, something...

A young couple, Jana and Sami, prepare a religious ritual so that Jana can get in contact with her late friend.

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the...

Dr. Neal Goodman enables terminal patients' right to die through the practice of mercy killing via his one-of-a-kind device. But when he sets out to...

A newlywed couple undergoes an unbreakable soul-binding ritual that threatens to expose something far more sinister than their love for each other.

After the death of Paolo Monte, his friends Nespolo, Maradona and Maicol have the idea of resurrecting.....................their friend???

An ambitious teen conducts an ancient ritual to enact petty revenge on those who she believes have wronged her.

The story concerns a man bound to death and a young girl, following a path of ritualistic transfiguration to ultimately become completely free as...

A reverberating blur of bodies and fire conjures forth representation of the potent and intoxicating Southern English folk custom of the flaming tar...

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

Deep in the heart of FIU Miami, a group of students stumbles upon an ancient ritual hidden beneath the campus grounds. What starts as a curiosity...

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal...

Sacred explores cultural and religious ritual as it relates to life’s cycles: birth, adolescence, marriage, aging and other key passages of...

A young woman's story of possession and healing in rural Rajasthan

A woman wakes up bound to an altar, helpless as she is transformed into a flesh and blood statue of Santa Muerte by two elderly Brujos whose sole...

Mia has locked herself inside her recently deceased mother's rundown, crumbling house. Armed with a litany of books detailing ancient cultures and...

Many cultures have viewed the lunar eclipse as a powerful reminder of the Day of Judgment. People chant prayers, sing songs and recite poetry, all in...