A beloved book about a young girl’s puberty & confusion of faith in an interfaith marriage is faithfully transferred to the screen.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Close (2022)
Léo and Remi are best of friends, but when they enter high school one of them, fearing they were being tagged as gay, draws back out of fear–with sad consequences.
Causeway (2022)
Lynsey, a wounded Army vet, returns to New Orleans & bonds with a Black man who also has suffered a trauma, but not in a romantic way because she prefers girls.
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
A fairy tale in which two peasant girls are placed in “wrong” schools at School for Good & Evil & face many obstacles as they figure out what to do to escape.
Bombardment (2021)
A sad but true story of how innocent Danish children become victims of war courtesy of “friendly” bombers during WW 2.
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
This character transformation film about a teacher is set in an isolated village of yak herders in the mountains of Bhutan.
Education (2020)
Drawing on his own experience Steve McQueen tells the story of a Black boy victimized by the British racist educational system designed to weed out minority students.
And Breathe Normally (2018)
The story of 2 mothers, one a Icelandic Border Police trainee, & the other an African refugee caught trying to fly using a forged passport, a story full of grace and compassion.
Chasing Freedom (2004)
A self-centered lawyer is changed into a compassionate human being when she is made to defend an Afghan woman who will be killed if she is deported back to her own country.
Selah and the Spades (2019)
At a prep school Selah heads the Spades, controllers of campus drug & alcohol traffic, & during her senior year drafts sophomore Paloma as her possible successor.