The Starling Girl (2023)
Jem, devout, talented leader of her church’s dance troupe, & her youth pastor fall in love & justify their adultery by “God intends for us to be together.”
Living (2022)
In this remake of a Kurosawa classic a London bureaucrat finds meaning for his life when he pushes through a neglected children’s park project.
Crushed Wings (2021)
Female Genital Mutilation is seen through the eyes of a village girl, married & sent off to the UK where she finds an advocate & also discovers the practice is cultural, not at all advocated by Islam.
Peace by Chocolate (2021)
In this true refugee story a son’s dream of becoming a doctor conflicts with his father’s need for him to join in his chocolate business because only the son can speak English.
Emily the Criminal (2022)
student debt
The Northman (2022)
Based on a Viking saga about a boy who witnesses the murder of his father & seduction of his mother and grows into a warrior able to battle against the murderer.
Binti (2021)
Through the stories of 4 modern Tanzanian women the unequal struggle of women against patriarchy is explored.
Days of Glory (Indigènes, 2006)
4 Algerians in WW 2 discover how prejudiced the French army is as they fight Germans from Italy to southern France.
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (2021)
A documentary film about Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a scholar who influenced Dr. MLK & the Civil Rights Movement & was an important adviser at Vatican II.
Charlotte Forten’s Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
This TV film focuses on the heroic 2 years that Black Abolitionist Charlotte Forten spent teaching ex-slaves at Port Royal during the Civil War.