Anniversary films for religious orders, made to outlive the chapter.
Centenaries, jubilees, foundation anniversaries, beatification cycles. Sober documentary craft for chapters, dioceses, and ecclesiastical commissions — Polish Catholic and DACH register, library-grade archive.
Chapters with a date that will not move.
If your jubilee year is set and the chapter has already asked for a film, this page is for you. We work calmly with curias, abbots, mothers superior, and Lednica-aligned dioceses; we hold confidentiality the way archivists do.
Sisters of Notre Dame
Female active orders with international houses and a long oral tradition. A film as anniversary record and intergenerational handover.
Capuchin & Franciscan friars
Provinces marking 400+ years. We film the work, not the costume — apostolate, study, table, choir.
Diocesan jubilees
Cathedrals, seminaries, Lednica-aligned youth movements. Multilingual delivery for the Vatican and the local press kit alike.
Beatification cycles
Documentary support for the cause: witnesses, places, the slow biographical work that a postulator needs filmed properly once.
Slowly, with the rhythm of the hours.
We block production around the liturgical calendar, not the other way around. Lectio in the morning, archive in the afternoon, oral histories with the eldest sisters first — they go first because they remember most. Sound is treated as scripture; we do not overdub Mass.
This niche lives under ALN Classics
ALN Classics
Liturgical music, concert film, archival restoration — the prestige lane that gives this work its craft register. All commissions from €30,000.
ALN Film Production
For orders with a broader documentary scope — research, archive, multilingual delivery — Film Production handles what Classics does not.
One heirloom film. Several quiet derivatives.
28-58 min
Jubilee feature
The main documentary, screened at the jubilee Mass or refectory evening. Theatrical-grade colour, Dolby 5.1 option for the basilica.
4-7 min
Institutional press cut
A short, multilingual version for press, donors, partner institutions, and internal channels, with the right vocabulary and the right pace.
perpetual
Archive masters
Raw oral histories, ProRes masters, transcripts in PL/EN/IT/LA where applicable. Catalogued for the diocesan archive standard.
€15-30k
Anniversary
A single-province or single-house commission for a standard anniversary.
- 2 shoot days
- PL + LA + EN subtitles
- Refectory and chapel cuts
€30-45k
Jubilee
Multi-house jubilee with oral histories from the eldest sisters or brothers and an institutional press cut.
- 4-6 shoot days
- PL + EN + IT versions
- Postulator-grade archive
€60-90k
Heirloom
Century-class commission: research, archive recovery, multi-language masters, screening event for the chapter.
- 8-12 shoot days
- Dolby 5.1 basilica master
- Foundation-grade archive
01Do you film during Mass?
Yes, with the celebrant's permission, from positions agreed in advance, and never with extra light during the Eucharistic prayer. Sound is recorded clean and is not overdubbed.
02Can you handle specialist vocabulary and multilingual deliverables?
Yes. We deliver multilingual subtitles and work with translators who handle specialist terms, including ecclesiastical Latin when the project requires it.
03How do you handle archive material we cannot share publicly?
We sign a custodial agreement before any review. Restricted material lives in a separate cut, marked accordingly, and is never used in the public version.
04Will the film respect cloister rules?
Yes. For contemplative houses we use a small female-led crew, agree the route in advance with the abbess, and never enter cloister areas the chapter has not opened to us.
05Can you support a beatification or canonisation cause?
We have filmed witness testimonies and places of significance for postulators. We work to the evidentiary standard required and deliver transcripts and uncut masters for the dossier.