SILENCE

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests arrive in Japan at a time when Catholicism is banned. With the final goal to re-establish Christianity, they embark on a search for their mentor, Father Ferreira, who mysteriously disappeared after his capture by the authorities five years earlier.

45 years before Martin Scorsese’s dream project came to fruition with Silence, the great Japanese auteur Masahiro Shinoda adapted the celebrated novel by Shûsaku Endô. A stunning historical treatise on religious oppression, Shinoda’s masterwork is one of the great studies in faith in all of cinema.