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Flowers and Knives


While a local priest from a traditional village of Flores in Indonesia is celebrating his ordainment in an impressive animistic-catholic ceremony, a young man coming from that very island, who studies theology in Rome, still struggles to decide which path to follow. His own ordainment ritual in Flores has yet to come…
Will he remain faithful to his vocation to become a missionary priest assisting migrants around the world or will he leave the seminary and return to Indonesia, get married and become a teacher? ... 

This character-driven documentary takes us to a journey between Flores and Rome, between the joyful fulfillment of an objective and the effort to attain it, between flowers and knives, just as in the ritual.