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Documentary  •  2026  •  98 min

Crows Are White (2026)

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Crows Are White (2026)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Buddhism: Positive
Islam: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.8

Overview

Crows Are White is a documentary directed by Ahsen Nadeem. After living a secret life, the filmmaker travels to a strict Japanese Buddhist monastery seeking guidance on faith and desires, where he befriends an outcast monk who favors ice cream over meditation. Shot over five years on three continents.

Starring Cast

N/A

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: Medium

The documentary centers on a Muslim filmmaker's hidden interracial relationship and his spiritual quest for guidance, portraying the tension between personal love and cultural expectations. The narrative's resolution through embracing individual truth and cross-cultural acceptance drives its alignment with progressive ideals of personal freedom.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: Medium

The documentary showcases ethnic and religious diversity among its subjects, centering a Muslim director's interracial relationship and interfaith explorations. Cultural tensions arise from family expectations, yet the story emphasizes personal reconciliation without strong criticism of traditional identities.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: Medium

Ahsen Nadeem's documentary examines traditional Muslim family expectations on marriage and faith as burdensome forces prompting secrecy and emotional distance, centering on his concealed interfaith marriage to a non-Muslim woman. The filmmaker's firsthand access to his personal conflicts and the monastic life highlights the central question of balancing familial obligations with individual truth in relationships.

Buddhism: Positive
Confidence: Medium

The documentary depicts a strict Japanese Buddhist monastery and its monks with nuance and respect, emphasizing personal humanity and unorthodoxy to explore enlightenment and truth.

Islam: Positive
Confidence: Medium

The film portrays the protagonist's devout Muslim upbringing and family with sympathy, highlighting his internal struggle to reconcile Islamic expectations with his interfaith relationship while ultimately affirming the dignity of his faith journey.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Medium

No LGBTQ+ characters or themes are present in the film. The narrative focuses on the director's conflicts with his Muslim upbringing and interfaith romance, emphasizing themes of truth, faith, and familial secrecy.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

The documentary contains no depiction of transgender characters or themes, focusing instead on a filmmaker's personal exploration of faith and reconciliation.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Crows Are White is an original first-person documentary that follows the director's personal experiences with real individuals, lacking any adaptations or recastings from established source material that would involve gender swaps.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Crows Are White is a documentary in which real individuals, including director Ahsen Nadeem and Japanese monk Ryushin, appear as themselves. No source material or historical figures are adapted with altered racial portrayals.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.8

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.3
The Movie Database logo
9.0

Critic Ratings

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10.0
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N/A

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