Movies are the interaction of light and shadow. We watch the way the light moves on the screen and perceive it as something real. But are we really seeing what is there? What do we miss seeing? If we don’t notice the details, have we missed the whole picture? In Radiance, from director Naomi Kawase,…
?Haven?t I got the right to be happy?? In Teona Strugar Mitevska?s God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, tradition and modernity come into conflict. We watch as a woman must find her own value when everyone around her sees her as worthless. The church, the community, the police and even her mother all seem to…
This is a new telling of the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25ff.). Jesus spoke that parable in answer to the question ?Who is my neighbor (who the Law says I must love)??
In production notes for the film, Labaki says the title comes from the French word ?capharna?m? which translates as ?chaos?. She also notes that it is the name of a biblical city, which was ?a place where miracles could happen.?
Mia Madre was the winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes in 2015. Ecumenical Juries often focus on finding stories of the human condition that speak to the spiritual needs that are common to us all. That is certainly the case with Mia Madre.
