This issue of JRFM pursues two goals: first, the analysis and evaluation of the critically acclaimed, rich work of the Dardenne Brothers from the perspective of the study of religions and theology; and second, departing from this analysis of the Dardennes’ cinema and through the comparison of their work to that of other socially committed filmmakers in relation to the broader debates about realist filmmaking, a more fundamental reflection on the relationship between cinema and “reality” and the questions of responsibility and hope that may emerge from it.