The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith in Canada
2015 · 9m · Canada
Directed by Christopher Romeike
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Young Canadians of varied faiths describe what practising religion looks like day to day in Canada. Their discussion considers visibility, accommodation, and belonging across traditions.
Picked by Margot
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It's a classroom discussion about faith in Canada—which sounds like the most aggressively earnest, consensus-building documentary premise imaginable, and yet I'm genuinely curious whether Romeike finds something genuinely weird or uncomfortable in the cracks of tolerance.
A deceptively modest essay that inherits from the tradition of pedagogical cinema and observational documentary, using the classroom as both frame and method to examine how pluralism actually feels in practice—the kind of formally patient work that rewards attention to what's chosen *not* to be said.
The real move here is probably something small: the rhythm of who speaks when, or a single moment where the camera holds on someone's hesitation instead of cutting to agreement—the decision that transforms well-intentioned dialogue into something that actually breathes.