Documentary
Raymond Roy is a 64-year-old idealist, an energetic social activist ready to give everything he has to those living on the edge: the alienated, impoverished and exploited members of society. Raymond is also a priest, doing what he has wanted to do ever since he was a teenager. Filmmaker Serge Giguère paints an intimate portrait of a man who has spent 30 years fighting for an alternative vision of life in his community. The film is a blend of cinema vérité and social history that provides a view of the man and his work from without and within, from the poetry of his personal diary laced with doubts and self-criticism, to the many achievements of the community groups he helped. Filming over several years, Giguère gives us a sense of the changes in values and attitudes of those who run our society, along with the role of the community groups who provide solutions, inspiration and a sense of renewal.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Take
Women’s Munition Work
A Goy Guide to World History
Mary's Land
Padre Pio Sanctus
Hostage to the Devil
Canoe
Girls Taking Time Checks
Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger
Kardinál Jozef Tomko
Keeping Track
Wild Women
Crude Oil
Sewing Sisters
Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin
The Judas Iscariot Lunch
Carving Thy Faith
Convinced
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
Railway Station
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Take
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 2004
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.Women’s Munition Work
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1917
This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in the aircraft industry as well as the tempting prospect of a fun social life. (source: British Film Institute)A Goy Guide to World History
IMDB 9 | Jan , 2014
Spanning over 2,000 years, this study looks at the complex relationship between Jewish and Catholic thought from a social and historical perspective. Examining different significant moments for both religions throughout the centuries, this commentary on the book analyzes and explains the conflicts that have arisen between the two religions since their beginnings.Mary's Land
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 2013
A figure skater seeks wisdom from a local sage to cure her diabetes.Padre Pio Sanctus
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2003
This is the definitive biography of the saint from Pietrelcina, Italy. With one hour of filmed material, much of which has never been seen before, this film introduces the faithful to every aspect of the life, spirituality, and work of this 20th century saint.Hostage to the Devil
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2016
This documentary examines age-old questions about the existence of the Devil and good versus evil, through the life of controversial priest, Father Malachi Martin. It explores Martin's horrifying final case before his mysterious death.Canoe
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1961
Boys’ canoe trip on the Thames in London.Girls Taking Time Checks
IMDB 5.6 | Apr , 1904
Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2009
The story of Catholic iconoclast Michael Pfleger who made it his mission to transform the drug ravaged south side Chicago community surrounding his parish. In so doing, Father Mike has run directly into conflict with the local Catholic hierarchy. The film explores issues of racism, the power of the media, and the tension between Pfleger's 'gospel of the streets' versus traditional Church theology.Kardinál Jozef Tomko
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2013
Keeping Track
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2020
Tribute to the workers responsible for maintaining and repairing the tracks, stations, terminals, and tunnels of the metro.Wild Women
IMDB 9 | Nov , 2022
At the beginning of winter, a filmmaker retires for six months to a hermit's cabin in the middle of the forest, cut off from the world and its means of communication. Through the words of four women she has filmed previously, all of whom have dedicated their lives to different forms of spirituality, she embarks on a mysterious inner adventure, on the edge of solitude and nature. A journey that invites us to connect with the world in a different way.Crude Oil
IMDB 7.2 | Jan , 2008
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.Sewing Sisters
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2022
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor Standards Act under the tutelage of Jeon Taeil. On September 9, 1977, they were imprisoned fighting against the government that closed labor classes, shouting, “The next Jeon Taeil will be a woman!” Now the middle-aged girls recall the memories of the life of female workers, social contempt, and stigma. Watching the sunrise in the East Sea, they admire, ‘How fair it is because everybody can see it.’ Sewing Sisters rewrites the history of maledominated Korean labor struggles in the 1970s with news interviews of female workers belonging to the Cheonggye Clothes Union.Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1995
From the beginning, Hergé's work, Tintin's creator, was conditioned by the ideology of his publisher, the weekly child supplement of a Belgian Catholic newspaper. An exciting analysis of the political meaning of the adventures of Tintin.The Judas Iscariot Lunch
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2016
13 former missionary priests from rural Ireland reveal all in this telling documentary about why they joined and subsequently left the active ministry and their life in the Church. Raised as devout Catholics from infancy, these honest men now in their later stages of life open up about intimacy, faith, religion and life before, during and after the priesthood.Carving Thy Faith
IMDB 10 | Oct , 2018
A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the livelihood. An experiential film on neocolonial Philippines’ interpretation of Saints and Gods through many forms of rituals and iconographies, exposing wood as raw material that undergoes production processes before becoming a spiritual object of devotion. - A sculpture believed to have been imported in town during Spanish colonial conquest, locally known as Mahal na Señor Sepulcro, is celebrating its 500 years. Meanwhile, composed of non-actors, Senakulo re-enacts the sufferings and death of Jesus. As the local community yearly unites to commemorate the Passion of Christ, a laborious journey unfolds following local craftsmen in transforming blocks of wood into a larger than life Jesus crucified on a 12-ft cross.Convinced
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2015
Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Donald Johnson travels around the country to get the story for himself.ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
IMDB 6 | Nov , 2010
A biographical documentary following the life of a young Japanese priest and bar-owner.Railway Station
IMDB 4.8 | Jan , 1980
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.