Arn: The Knight Templar (2007) Trailer

Arn: Tempelriddaren

 In a Time of War and Betrayal, a Hero Will Rise

Arn – The Knight Templar (Swedish: Arn - Tempelriddaren) is a 2007 epic film based on Jan Guillou's trilogy about the fictional Swedish Knight Templar Arn Magnusson.

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The film about Arn and Cecilia is set in Sweden as well as the Middle East, and offers a rich gallery of brave knights, powerful queens and treacherous kings. It is a tale of war and intrigue, friendship and betrayal, but also an unforgettable love story.

Arn Magnussson is born in 1150 on Arnas farm in West Gothia in the western part of Sweden. He grows up to become an educated young man and a skilled swordsman. He meets Cecilia, the love of his life, but a cruel and jealous world forces them apart. Cecilia is imprisoned in a convent and Arn is sent away as a Knight Templar to the Holy Land, where war is raging between Christians and Muslims. They both have to fight to survive, they have to learn how to confront evil and overcome physical hardship. Their painful separation causes their faith in God and his goodness to waver -- though not their faith in each other and their confidence that they will one day be reunited.

When Arn returns home he has to fight for his love and what has become his life's mission: to unite Sweden into one kingdom.

The Secret of Kells (2009) Trailer

The Secret of Kells

 Turn the darkness into light

The Secret of Kells (working title: Brendan and the Secret of Kells) is a 2009 French-Belgian-Irish animated fantasy film by Cartoon Saloon that premiered on 8 February 2009, at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Why Did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East?(1989) Clip

Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun

Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the

old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to

 seek enlightenment - Hyegok calls him Kibong!; and, an orphan lad Haejin, whom 

Hyegok has brought to the monastery to raise as a monk. The story is mostly

 Yong Nan's, told in flashbacks: how he came to the monastery, his brief return 

to the city, his vacillation between the turbulence of the world and his hope to

 overcome passions and escape the idea of self. We also see Hyegok as a teacher,

 a protector, and a father figure, and we watch Haejin make his way as a curious

 and nearly self-sufficient child.

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Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999) Trailer

Erleuchtung garantiert

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Two very different brothers get together for a temporary stay in a Japanese zen monastry.

 The trip from Germany to Japan brings up some unexpected quests they have to manage.

 Soon both really have to leave their ordinary lifes behind and are on a voyage to themselves. 

Written by Oliver Heidelbach

The Cup (1999) Trailer

Phörpa

Buddhism is their philosophy. Soccer is their religion.

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While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive

 at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation

 is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, 

the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the

 Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental 

of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, 

resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of 

the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha

 in a rapidly changing world. 

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