Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.For some time now thinkers across the humanities and social sciences have increasingly called into question the oncedominant view of the relationship between modernity and secularism prompting some to speak of a ampampquotpostsecular turn.ampampquot Until now film studies has largely been silent about this development even though cinema itself has been a major vehicle for such reflection. This fact became inescapable in 2011 when Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life and Lars von Triers Melancholia were released within days of each other. While these two audacious and controversial films present seemingly opposite perspectivesthe former a thoughtful meditation on faith the latter a portrayal of nontriumphalist atheismtogether they raise critical questions about transcendence and immanence in modern life.