Ritual Movies

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary...

Dottie, a lonely and bored woman becomes obsessed with James, a new employee at the vintage store where she works. When Dottie discovers a spell that...

The Pharmacratic Inquisition is a provocative film from Gnostic Media that makes the argument that virtually all of the mythology, symbolism, and...

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

After being abducted by a deranged family living deep in the countryside, a young man awakens to a nightmarish dinner where nothing is quite what it...

A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual.

Lyrical tragicomedy. The eyes of the young hero, who will go through the rite of circumcision, shows the life of a Kyrgyz village on a holiday day.

A group of friends get trapped in a haunted abbey with no easy way of escaping.

A vampiric trio facilitates the transition of a new host across a former limestone quarry and the sacred mountain grotto of Mary Magdalene, troubling...

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

Set during the final ten minutes before an eighteenth birthday, the film follows a young protagonist on the threshold between childhood and...

A private webcam video - never intended to be shared - turned into an emotionally raw video installation. This short film is intentionally unedited,...

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

An Armenian funeral meal takes an unexpected turn.

A collection of videos that spotlight all kinds of terror "tragedies", not limited to psychic phenomena such as fights, violence, and passing by. It...

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

After getting a promotion, the main character has to either comply with the business culture or die trying.

Through crucifixions, fisting and forest rituals, a group of queer and trans friends create a folk-horror love letter to radical intimacies. Produced...

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...