Towards the end of Rebuilding Paradise, we see a group of California high schoolers taking up a collection for people in Beauregard, Alabama, where tornados had destroyed the town. Those donating did so out of great empathy, because just one year earlier their town of...
Can 1,100 high school senior boys form an efficient state government? Each summer, the American Legion sponsors week-long camps known as Boys State (as well as separate Girls State) in every state that bring together a wide mix of high school students to learn what...
Life is hard for those on the edge of society. It is often made harder by official indifference of authorities. It is even worse when the authorities feel free to take advantage of such people. Melina Le?n?s film Song Without a Name shows just how such injustice can...
?She believes that shining a light is the most important thing.? A President who claims news outlets lie. Social media bots that spread misinformation. Intimidation of reporters by both governmental and unofficial sources. A leading reporter arrested multiple times....
?We can?t change the past. All we have left is our future.? The past and future are not so much what Sergio Navarretta?s The Cuban focuses on. Rather it calls us to find life in the present. Mina (Ana Golja) is a young Afghan-Canadian pre-med student who is working at...
When a young woman?s life falls apart through a series of events around her, she?s left with nothing?except a plan, not for restoration, but revenge. But we learn that revenge may be just as unsatisfying as the life she has been left with. K?ji Fukada?s A Girl Missing...
In Matias Mariani?s Shine Your Eyes we find a stranger in a strange land as he searches for his family?s prodigal son. It is in part a mystery to be unraveled, but it is also a journey of self-discovery and affirmation. Amadi, a Nigerian musician, has come to S?o...
What happens when a big, police inspired drug sting goes bad? Most Wanted, from writer/director Daniel Roby, is inspired by a true story of a Canadian man who was used by the police and left hanging in the wind when things turned bad. Daniel L?ger (Antoine-Olivier...
The streets of Medell?n, Columbia, are the setting for Catalina Arroyave?s debut feature, The Days of the Whale. The streets she shows us are filled with color because of the music and graffiti artwork. But those streets are also places of darkness because of the...