?Sometimes, I wish God would just reach down and give the world a big old shake, you know?? One day. One family. And it all gets shaken up a bit. Evan Oppenheimer?s The Magnificent Meyersons is a peripatetic search for understanding what it means to live in a world...
In Jeanette Nordahl?s Wildland, family is the most important thing in life. But is that good? Can a source of love also be a place in which one is broken down? Is the call of family worth giving up one?s sense of right and wrong? And what will we sacrifice to belong?...
Hitler. A name that for much of the world connotes absolute evil. But that name is burnt into history in such a way that we continue to struggle with the legacy that left millions dead. Petra Epperline and Michael Tucker bring us The Meaning of Hitler, a film framed...
David Gutnik?s premier feature film, Materna, consists for four independent stories built around women whose paths will come together in a dangerous situation on a New York subway. Each of the key characters is struggling in different ways with their places in the...
?We were doing what we thought God wanted us to do.? If one constantly hears they are sinful when they go to church, they may quit going?or, they may seek to change. For LGBTQ+ people, for several decades, this often meant trying not to be gay?to change their life....
I recently had a chance to visit via Zoom with Kristine Stolakis, the director of Pray Away, a Netflix documentary about the ?ex-gay? movement and conversion therapy that hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ+ people underwent in the last fifty years. The basis of that...
The mission: go into a camp filled with Daesh (ISIS) supporters and rescue Yazidi girls and women held as sex slaves. Sabaya won the directing award for World Cinema Documentary for Hogir Hirori at the Sundance Film Festival. Billed as a docu-thriller, the film shines...
?You are being considered for the amazing opportunity of life.? What were you like before you became you? Is there life before life? Edson Oda?s Nine Days doesn?t so much ask or answer such questions, it plays with the possibilities they present. In the process we...
?The time for apologies is behind us.? Tailgate, from writer/director Lodewijk Crijns, is a psychological thriller built around road rage (and perhaps just rage in general). What begins as a simple road trip turns into a journey into fear and danger. Hans (Joroen...