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Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Jens LOFTAGER
Producer(s) : Mikkel STOLT (Fenris Film & Media Production)

Through eight months a Danish Protestant priest is followed and presents his teaching of youngsters to believe in themselves and to plunge into life. The portraits of former members of the Japanese religious sect Aum, who abandoned their personal lives to join the cult build the contrast in this film. An exploration of what it means to believe and why we believe.

Two widely different images of religious faith create a contrasting and thought-provoking totality in Jens Loftager's new film. The Danish priest Karsten plays music to his confirmation pupils and leads them into philosophical reflections to help them trust in who they are; three Japanese Buddhists, who never had that opportunity are thinking back on their lost youth as members of the religious group Aum which committed a terrorist attack in Tokyo in 1995.
Across different stages of life and cultures, 'Faith' explores how religious faith can both make us fit for life and able to understand ourselves better, but also push us to make extreme choices, which we will later regret and find difficult to live with.
The film is the last part of Loftager's trilogy, which started with 'Words' (1994) and continued with 'War' (2003).