Film – Filming faith and non-faith

Making visible what’s missing is a challenge.

Though the election, last March, of the Argentinean Pope Francis seems to have invigorated the standing of the Catholic Church in Europe, it’s fair to say that most people under 50 would argue that the Old Continent is increasingly atheist, or agnostic at best.

This is an interesting trend – if partially compensated for by the influx of immigrants from more religious nations – in the sense that it’s a phenomenon of absence: it is more often said that a person is not religious rather than that person is an atheist and atheism itself is defined as the absence of a belief in any kind of deity or deities. When talking more specifically about cinema and films that offer a kind of reflection of what’s happening now in society, there are countless films that explore things that are happening in Europe but, strangely enough, there are practically no films about atheism, precisely because it is such an invisible subject.

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