Auto da Paixão de 2025 - "Redenção e Sacrifício: A Cruz que Transformou o Mundo"

Mirage

November 1972 •English

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.

The Last Rodeo

May 2025 •English

A retired rodeo legend risks it all to save his grandson. Facing his own painful past and the fears of his family, he enters a high-stakes bullriding competition as the oldest contestant ever. Along the way, he reconciles old wounds with his estranged daughter and proves that true courage is found in the fight for family.

Cast Aside the Clouds

Invalid date •Arabic

Fahrad Kosrovi is a Tehran bookstore owner whose daughter Utab attends a secret university aligned with the Iranian Bahá’í spiritualist faith. After the bookstore is attacked, a hospitalized Utab meets a young Muslim neurologist, Dr. Sasan Naderi and they fall for one another. With a romance between a Muslim and a member of the Bahá’í faith opposed by both families, their relationship is also tested when Utab learns Sasan has plans to go to Germany and she is arrested, imprisoned and tortured for being a Baha’i. With Utab facing execution, both families must do all they can to secure her release, before it’s too late.

Stars in My Crown

May 1950 •English

Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.

Household Saints

September 1993 •English

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

The Prayer

February 2020 •English

A drama and faith-based film about two ambitious college students. Mark and Tom became good friends despite a rocky beginning at gunpoint that almost cost Mark his life.

Ariel

Invalid date •English

In the world of the Ottoman Sultans, a poor child from Jerusalem makes an unimaginable desert journey to Cairo and back to save his mother and siblings from a rapacious aristocrat. He has nine days…

Red Dwarf: The Promised Land

April 2020 •English

The posse meet three cat clerics who worship Lister as their God. Lister vows to help them as they're being hunted by Rodon, the ruthless feral cat leader who has vowed to wipe out all cats who worship anyone but him.

Painter With No Colors

Invalid date •English

A talented artist creates a portrait of someone he has never seen before.

Venerdì Santo - Bronte

April 2021 •Italian

Deive Leonardo: The Answer

November 2023 •Portuguese

Social media phenomenon Deive Leonardo reflects on God's love, sings and tells stories about the disciple Peter's spiritual journey in this special.

The Great Tower

April 2024 •Portuguese

In a world where nature is fading, in a town in south Brazil's countryside, people from the original settlements still exist, but face difficulties surviving due to the unproductive lands. Lauri is one of them. However, unlike the others, he has a dream that takes him to the Great Tower.

Mary's Land

December 2013 •Spanish

A figure skater seeks wisdom from a local sage to cure her diabetes.

Emergency Declaration

August 2022 •Korean

While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.

Patio

April 2018 •Persian

Patio is the story of individuals whose city, no matter how large it may be, feels similar to a small patio for them.

Sweet Thing

October 2020 •English

For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and their apparently idyllic family life collapses. Their mostly absent and irresponsible mother is not much help either. But their friendship with Malik, a boy of Billie’s age, frees them from their shackles. Together they embark on a journey full of intense moments of freedom. The colourful, emotional world of the three young people is depicted in kaleidoscopic black and white imagery, which opens space for their own notions of childhood. Alexandre Rockwell's tale portrays a profound sense of solidarity and deep love: for cinema and Billie Holiday, and also for risk and adventure.

Eleven Letters to God

August 2007 •Russian

... Late fall, a new teacher Bilar Bolatovich and a new boarding school pupil Alan come to a boarding school located high in the mountains of Ossetia. With their arrival, the usual course of life is disrupted. The boarding school is preparing for the anniversary, but it turns out that local authorities want to tear it down. The director of the boarding school, by hook or by crook, fights against heartless power. This film is about life in a mountain forgotten by God, about fears, pain, confusion of its inhabitants, hoping only that letters will reach God that are written by a half-blind pupil of the boarding school.

The Flyer

January 1987 •German

Bernd, an insurance broker trainee, flees his mundane life in Germany to set a new World record in hang gliding in Bolivia.

Surkhi Bindi

August 2019 •Panjabi

Rano grew up dreaming of marrying a Prince Charming from Canada, but soon she realises she possesses no quality to attract a groom from there. She is a brilliant make-up artist and hopes that this talent would somehow get her an NRI groom. Alas, her world falls apart when she is forced to marry Sukha, who she dislikes.Fate soon leaves the young couple homeless, and they start life anew, and start a beauty salon within the one room which they have rented. Soon their world turns around, and Rano starts planning on moving to Canada. In order to earn the cash needed she enters a Beauty Contest to fulfil her dreams. SURKHI BINDI is the story of a young couple with separate dreams and how they arrive at their destinations together.