The Big Question

Running time: 75 mins

What are the first existential queries that lead us to question the absolute? Who is God? What happens after life?

The Big Question is based on an idea that is very simple yet rather complex: it poses extremely direct questions to a large and varied group of people regarding their own intimate perception of the divine. Their opinions and religious traditions vary as drastically as a caterpillar to a butterfly, yet they are all inspired and well-thought answers.

The set of a debated movie about Jesus Christ (in this case, Mel Gibson?s The Passion of the Christ) is the peculiar microcosm, a surprising sociological container, which makes the backdrop where these inquiries take place; it actually is a 'non-place' par excellence. Filmmakers Francisco Cabras and Alberto Molinari?s elegant and visually arresting film reads as a singular notebook of laic catechism, and its essence is the cultural, religious, social and geographical variety of those interviewed. The topics suggested through the assorted questions are confronted by a subtle, sometimes humorous research which touches everyone: believers, atheists, agnostics, or the undecided.

It is a highly personal experience that expresses itself in individual ways and gives us reason to examine and strengthen our own spirituality without forcing any ideas and beliefs.

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