THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIFE

By Zita ERFFA

VOSTAO - as CONS

Documentary - Completed 2018

Why did my brother chose the very conservative order of the Legionaries of Christ to become a priest? After eight years of barely talking I visit him in hi monastery to confront him with his decision.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale 2018
Perspektive Deutsches Kino, nominated for he Glashuette Documentary Award
Karlovy Vary 2018
Official Documentary Competition
Guadalajara FICG 2018
Official Documentary Competition, Mention as
FICCI Cartagena 2018
Official Documentary Competition
Munich Dok.Fest 2018
Ecuador Edocs 2018
non competitive
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary, First film, Biography
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, MEXICO
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, GERMAN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Zita ERFFA
    • Producer(s)
    • Zita ERFFA (PETRUVSKI FILMS), Abril LÓPEZ CARRILLO (OJO DE VACA), Tina JANKER (HFF - HOCHSCHULE FÜR FILM UND FERNSEHEN)
    • Synopsis
    • When my brother joined the Legionaries of Christ after finishing school, he disappeared from our lives. We can only visit him once a year. His superiors are even allowed to read the letters we send him. I hate them. When we were kids, we went to the summer camps of
      the order. It was the best week of the year. But the Legionaries were strange, almost like a sect. Why did my brother choose them to be his new family? Eight years pass by before I visit him in his monastery in Connecticut. And suddenly, I am there, surrounded by
      80 men in strange clothing. I see how they live — how they pray, eat, pray, go to class, pray. And I get my brother back — finally.