Powerful Movies

An examination of how Africa's mythological stories have served as the basis for the world religions that came after, especially in Western...

7Spade was once the greatest magician in the world; now, he's retired, old, and washed up. And when he meets a shady back-alley time traveler, he...

A young Cinephile girl, a wannabe gangster, a novice monk, and a temple kid join forces to make a movie about exploding mountains and burning huts.

The Birds Shall Return is a documentary narrated by grandmothers and third-generation Palestinians from Jordan and the Netherlands. Their intimate...

The Garden addresses a recurring theme for David Hartt: the historically determined world that we call "natural" and tend to consider as lying beyond...

When a world-famous film director is finally given the chance to write his own script, painful memories from his past resurface. Seeking solace, he...

Impassioned surfer Taylor Lane builds a functional surfboard with 10,000 cigarette butts collected from California beaches. The Cigarette Surfboard...

The film follows Lika, a young girl forced to flee the war with her little sister and mother, leaving her father behind. Haunted by fear and loss,...

Portrait of Seraphim Bit-Kharibi, an Assyrian Orthodox Christian monk residing in Georgia, who sings in Aramaic, the mother tongue of Jesus Christ

A group of teenagers who have been selected to participate in a recreational white water rafting trip. All of the kids selected have AIDS or have...

Atmospherically shot in black and white North Circular Road travels the length of the eponymous road exploring the history, music and streetscapes of...

Set in rural Bengal, Pradipta Bhattacharyya’s contemplative drama about the human condition, The Slow Man and His Raft, centres on Nadhar, a...

A young drummer obsessed with the idea of making the perfect jazz rhythm.

What happens when two trans women get sick of non-transsexuals' uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8...

A struggling but capable teenager works through his increasingly odd responsibilities on a family farm.

A local fisherwoman navigates her way through a male dominated environment to work in an industry that has been essential to island life for hundreds...

The American government prepares for a covert operation to kidnap the Venezuelan president. The fate of global trade and potential military...

Made in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young British-Indian woman murdered in 1985 in a racist attack in England, Sari Red examines the effect of...