?Why are you helping me?? ?You were in my path.? Surviving may be all that someone can handle at times. It?s not just a matter of physical survival, but can require surviving the kind of pain and sorrow that seeks to kill one?s soul and spirit. In Land, the...
Sundance offers the chance for many first-time filmmakers to share their films. First Date is the premier feature film from directors Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp. It is a film that doesn?t fit nicely into any single genre, rather it mixes several together. The...
?Clearly we were in a boat that needed desperately to be rocked.? The 1960s was a turbulent time. Society was struggling with the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, and the early groanings of the women?s movement. For many, the church (especially the Roman Catholic Church)...
What if you know something bad is happening, but no one will believe you? Perhaps they think you?re crazy. Perhaps you even begin to think you?re crazy. The Swedish film Knocking is part of the Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival (happening virtually this...
What does it mean to be a mother? Japan?s submission for Best International Feature Film, True Mothers, creates a very human picture of motherhood, but it also is multifaceted. It is the story of two mothers of a child. They have two very different stories, but...
A few weeks ago, a lawless mob stormed the United States Capitol in anger over the Presidential election. Two weeks later a newly inaugurated President Biden said, ?This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must...
You Will Die at Twenty is Sudan?s first ever submission for Best International Film Oscar consideration, and only the eighth fiction feature film made in the country. It offers us a chance to consider the ways fear of death may strip us of the joys of life. When...
?Sometimes you need to close your eyes and start over to see clearly.? No Man?s Land, from director Conor Allyn, is at one level a story about borders, but at a deeper level it is about the importance of welcoming the stranger in our midst. Jake Allyn as ?Jackson...
Oualid Mouaness?s 1982 is a story about fear and courage, love and war, innocence and maturity. The film is Lebanon?s official submission for Best International Film consideration. For fifth grade student Wissam (Mohamad Dalli) the end of year exams aren?t a problem;...