Everyday Mysticism produced, written and directed by Jaan Tootsen is added to GuideDoc.
This film is about the beauty of growing old. It is a story about an old and wise man who is preparing to leave this world and, thus, faces many personal and delicate questions. How not to loose faith in these final hours? Why are the greatest among us put through the hardest trials in the spiritual realm? Vello Salo is a Catholic cleric in his 90s, but first and foremost, a human being: a free spirit, a man with his own quirks and tricks, not to mention a lifetime of experience and wisdom which has been well-preserved to this modern day.
After leaving Estonia in 1944, Salo's journeys took him to places all around the world: a soldier in Finland and a gardner in Sweden; a student of mathemathics and physics in Switzerland and the Netherlands, and of theology in Italy. He was ordained as a priest in Germany and has since taught and worked in Italy, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Canada and Sweden, among other places. Since 1993, he is back in Estonia, living and working as a Catholic priest at the Pirita convent.
More often than not, people reach their spiritual prime during their final years. Many important questions become clear through pain and suffering only in the last chapter of life. May this film bring joy and comfort to us all!
Guidedoc.tv
Discover and watch the world’s best hand-picked and award-winning docs from around the globe. New must-see documentaries each week! We show films with the capacity of turning anyone into a lover of the genre. Documentaries featuring shine light on hot topics or telling little but compelling stories, festival trotters or hidden gems, we have them all! At GuideDoc we are a team of documentary lovers that take very seriously the selection process of our films in order to amaze our spectators, avid consumers of the genre and with no time to waste. Our only rule is to have ground-breaking documentaries made by professionals storytellers.