“FIRST REFORMED” 2017 | 1h53’ [US\UK\AU] | OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings

Ciclo OUTRA FÉ

[OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings]
(Curadoria de Alexandre Braga)

“FIRST REFORMED” 2017 | M/16 | 1h53’ [US\UK\AU] (No Coração da Escuridão - PT)

De Paul Schrader

Sábado Dia 30/05 às 19h30 [Saturday 05/30 at 7:30pm]

Um pastor protestante atormentado pela culpa e pela doença conhece um ativista ambiental em desespero. O encontro desencadeia uma crise espiritual onde fé, responsabilidade e desespero contemporâneo colidem.
A Protestant minister burdened by guilt and illness meets a despairing environmental activist. Their encounter triggers a spiritual crisis where faith, responsibility, and modern despair collide.

Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese

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OTHER FAITH begins with an ancient yet ever-renewed question: what happens when religious language ceases to be merely an inherited tradition and once again becomes an inner experience? For centuries, the symbols of faith were conceived as instruments of transformation — images, gestures and narratives meant to provoke an intimate shift within the human being. Yet when these symbols harden into external structures — institutions, doctrines, inherited narratives that precede us — a risk emerges: religious storytelling may cease to be a path of revelation and instead become a script that speaks in our place.

This cycle brings together two remarkable films that explore precisely this fracture — the moment when institutional faith no longer coincides with lived truth.

In Ida (2013), by Paweł Pawlikowski, a young novice in 1960s Poland discovers, just before taking her vows, that she belongs to a Jewish family scarred by the Holocaust. The journey she undertakes with her aunt is not merely historical or familial — it is a spiritual cr