Sufism in Cinema
Films expressing Sufi themes: divine love as cosmological force, annihilation of self, unity of being. The heart's journey.
30 films exploring sufism themes
The Holy Fool and the Feather of Grace
Love as the Fifth-Dimensional Force
The Camera as Sufi Practice
The Wheel Filmed at 70mm
The Fall: Roy Builds His Own Funeral in Story-Form, and Alexandria Dismantles It
The Wind Rises Holds Beauty and Annihilation in One Hand. Miyazaki Refuses to Choose.
Gorchakov Is Dying of a Homesickness That Has No Home
Lynch's Dune Is About a Boy Who Drinks Poison and Becomes the Desert's Own Mind
The Knot That Stops Counting When It Is Untied
Burning the Library That Defined You
Restraint as the Only Consummation
Chungking Express Is a Sutra on Impermanence Filmed as a Love Story
Happy Together Is a Map of Samsara, Two Souls Who Cannot Stop Restarting Their Suffering
The Adjustment Bureau Is About Angels Who Manage Fate. The Hero Beats Them by Loving Wrong.
Moonlight Is About a Soul Learning It Was Never the Armor It Built to Survive
House of Flying Daggers Is About the Blindness Everyone Keeps Even After Their Eyes Open
The Princess Bride Is a Grandfather Teaching a Sick Child That Love Survives Death
Ladyhawke Is a Portrait of Two Lovers Kept Alive Only by the Instant They Can Never Share
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Is About Two Immortals Who Would Rather Burn Than Live Without Love
Raging Bull Is a Man Punishing His Own Flesh Because He Cannot Reach His Soul
Ad Astra Sends a Son to the Edge of the Solar System to Kill the Idea of the Perfect Father
The Mission Argues That the Sword and the Cross Are Two Answers to the Same Wound, and Only One of Them Survives Contact With God
Babette's Feast Is Grace Served on a Plate to People Who Swore Off Pleasure to Reach Heaven
Breaking the Waves Is About a Woman Whose Direct Line to God Makes Every Institution Around Her Call Her Insane
Diary of a Country Priest Is the Record of a Man Being Emptied Until Grace Can Enter
Winged Migration Is a Prayer Disguised as a Nature Documentary About Obedience to the Unseen
Love Already Killed the Beast — the Bullets Only Released What Remained
Bab'Aziz Films the One Rule of Sufi Gathering: You Reach It by Longing, Not by Knowing the Way
The Kiss Is the One Thing She Never Sold
The Gunfighter Who Killed All Four Masters and Still Was Not Enlightened