Search Film, Company, People...

PASSION

By Borg MAJA

CATALAN FILMS - as PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2021

A film about longing, healing, and belonging.

Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2021

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary, Second film, LGBT
- Countries
- SPAIN, SWEDEN
- Languages
- SWEDISH, ENGLISH, SPANISH
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Borg MAJA
- Producer(s)
- Andrea HERRERA CATALÁ (AMOR Y LUJO), Almudena MONZÚ (AMOR Y LUJO), Stina GARDELL (Mantaray Films), Maja BORG
- Synopsis
- Having escaped a destructive relationship, film artist Maja Borg explores two ritual practices: Christianity and BDSM. At first glance, the two could hardly be further apart, but perhaps there is a spiritual kinship between religion and subculture in terms of their healing power. Borg confronts herself and her deeply personal traumas in a dark and theatrical form, while exploring the European queer scene and the Christian heritage of northern Europe to find back to her own core. Passion and suffering are two sides of the same complex case in ‘Passion’, whose transcendental imagers lets literary and cinematic traditions come together in a ceremonial whole. But the abstractions give a sense of human depth to the film’s encounters, where Borg is challenged in both body and soul. And maybe it is precisely this humanity that proves to be the thing that connects theology and BDSM on an emotional and possibly even spiritual level.