First-time director Daina O. Pusic serves up an adult fairytale about Death. There have been many such myths or fairy tales with the Grim Reaper taking many forms, but none as strange as in this film in which Death is a macaw bird able to talk and to change size. Its purpose is to end …
Maid (2021)
Limited TV Series This 10-episode series about an abused wife and mother has more heart and insights than a hundred super hero epics. The series is based on the memoir by Stephanie Land Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. It’s themes of motherhood, mother-daughter-love, spouse abuse, homelessness, and the hard lot …
Resurrection (2022)
A career mother raising her daughter alone spots the man who long ago abused her and now cautiously stalking her.
Petit Maman (2021)
A magical tale in which a lonely girl during a period of grief meets in the woods her mother at the same age as she.
An American Rhapsody (2001)
When a Hungarian family that has fled to America manage after 6 years to bring the infant they had left behind, their troubles are far from over.
Milada (2017)
The story of Czech martyr Milada Horáková, from her pre-WW 2 attempt to warn the British of Hitler’s intentions, through her imprisonment by Nazis & Communists, including the impact on her family.
Hala (2019)
Hala is the story of a Pakistani-American teenage girl struggling against traditional parents who would destroy her freedom–& includes the mother’s struggle as well.
Where’d You Go Bernadette? (2019)
Once famous architect Bernadette is now devoted to raising her daughter until an unexpected Antarctica trip leads to getting back her groove.
Wild (2014)
A woman grieving over her mother’s death and her own mistakes sets out on an 1100-mile hike to do penance and renew her life, a secular pilgrimage.
May in the Summer (2013)
May returns from NYC to Amman to prepare for her marriage to an American Muslim professor, but her Christian mother is against it. Then she too has doubts.