El Tonto Por Cristo
2025 • 2h 14m • Drama
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Language
English
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About the film
Set within a quiet brotherhood of monks on the Texas coast, the film unfolds in luminous vignettes, tracing lives shaped by devotion and marked by the same tensions we carry. In El Tonto Por Cristo, story gives way to encounter.
Drawing from the Eastern Orthodox tradition of the holy fool and the rhythm of European art cinema, it resists convention. At times dry, at moments unexpectedly human, it asks for attention more than reaction. Not something to consume, but to sit with. The kind of film you return to, and then return again.
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Director
Josh David Jordan
Producer
Jessica Marie Jordan
Executive Producer
Jonathan Pageau, Dn. Seraphim (Richard) Rohlin
Crew
Julian Sol Jordan, Michael Paraskevas, T.J Callaway
Upcoming screenings
What people are saying
‘Like the great works of transcendental cinema… El Tonto Por Cristo is as much a space for the viewer to inhabit as it is a conventional film.‘
Travis Kyker
‘It’s a gorgeous, meditative, black-and-white journey that manages to bridge the gap between deep Texas roots and the high-art sensibilities of Andrei Tarkovsky. It's a film that trusts its audience to sit in the stillness, proving that ‘patience’ isn't a dirty word in cinema—it’s a superpower.‘
Jason Hellerman
‘Though steeped in Orthodoxy, it requires no prior initiation, and it is not preachy. You do not have to be a theologian to be moved. Like Tarkovsky at his best, the beauty here is generous, radiant, unforced. It is not a “Christian film.” It is simply art—art that happens to be soaked in the light of Christ.‘
Renaud Beauchard
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