Jesus, du weisst

A film like a confessional. People go to church. People sit alone on a church pew, people pray to Jesus, who is everything to them: father and friend, redeemer and savior, guide and wailing wall – talkative, silent, loving. We meet a student who defies his parents and attends Mass daily, spends all his free time in the parish and simply tells Jesus everything and regrets everything: erotic fantasies as well as heroic dreams. And the retired chemistry teacher whose spouse cheated on her with another woman: In her prayers she dreams of vengeance. But isn't vengeance a sin?

In formally rigorous shots Ulrich Seidl presents six fragmentary portraits of believers who ask questions, look for answers and spill their…