Film Catalog

A feminist tour of Orthodox Judaism, giving insight into the question about how modern life has failed to answer our longing for roots.

Digging through the vast collection of his father’s home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable and traumatic story of his boyhood, exposing a dark secret of abuse passed through generations.

When Iranian-born Rita Mahtoubian sets out to change her life from ordinary to extraordinary she accidentally captures the attention of a homeland security agent in this satirical fairytale about romance, terrorism and trying to be a better person.

After having endured an abusive relationship with a young man, Becca found her life falling apart and was hospitalized in Denver for depression and anxiety. Her film ROCK BOTTOM chronicles her journey back to life, while sharing unvarnished accounts of the abuse. Interviews with friends and family (and even her own therapist) provide a multi-dimensional account of domestic violence among teenagers.

The First Holy Communion is fast approaching but as an atheist, eight-year-old Rúbaí refuses to be a part of it. Rúbaí faces emotional blackmail, religious and philosophical debate and out and out intolerance in today’s supposedly diverse and modern Ireland.

Friendship grew between two married women who were community activists and raised children together. A film about love, courage, and the price two women paid to be themselves ?

Beginning with Woodstock ‘99, director Michelle Esrick has spent ten years documenting the life of Wavy Gravy. Saint Misbehavin’ journeys from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one of a kind servant to humanity. The film blends Wavy’s own words with magical stories from an extraordinary array of fellow travelers both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the clown’s grin and the fool’s clothing.

A teenage girl is taken from her home and family and sent to a state school where indigenous students are converted into acceptable members of Swedish society.

In Baltimore, a master carpenter rebuilds a block of abandoned row houses into a community of Black women homeowners, but rising tensions in the group and a suspicious fire threaten to burn her dream down.

In this true story, a baby male killer whale gets separated from his family. When he seeks companionship from people he becomes beloved. To Native Americans he is the spirit of a chief; to conservationists he is a cause; to scientists he is trouble; to officials he is a danger.