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1) Accepted
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
T.M. Landry, an unconventional prep school in Louisiana, receives national attention for sending its graduates to elite universities. When an explosive New York Times exposé rocks the school, students face uncertain futures and must decide for themselves what they are willing to do to be accepted.
2) The Mission
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Every year, over 60,000 young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sent across the world to preach their gospel. Sundance Film Festival selection THE MISSION follows four Latter-day Saints teenagers from their training in Utah to their missions in Finland, home of Europe’s most private and secular people. Tania Anderson's film tracks these wide-eyed, impassioned teens on their two-year rite of passage, as they struggle...
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
One week after a mild car accident, a 45-year-old man suffers total amnesia. He embarks upon a new life with a new wife far away from his family. Sixteen years later, his oldest son returns with a camera to find out why his father’s memory never returned.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, GODS OF MEXICO is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using richly saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmaker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines—paying tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization....
5) Stay Alive
Publisher
Buffalo 8 Productions
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
An informal and interactive approach to exploring suicide prevention that will touch those in deep distress. Its unique perspectives will inform those who love and support these individuals, and will engage everyone who wants to better understand the human condition
Publisher
RAINLAKE
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Haunted by the past but driven by an unquenchable passion for living, an aging group of Holocaust survivors gather each summer at an idyllic hideaway in the Catskills, where they savor tightly bonded friendships, find new love and celebrate their survival. Directed by New York Times journalist Andrew Jacobs, and beautifully filmed by a team of cinematographers led by the legendary documentary pioneer Albert Maysles (*Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens*),...
7) Solo
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The acclaimed documentary "Solo" presents six unique stories of individuals who use the art of dancing as their own tool in fighting back difficulties, dealing with pain, incomprehension, and obstacles standing in their way to happiness through creative self-expression.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In this healing personal essay documentary, a filmmaker and her fellow classmates confront the trauma brought on by their years at a behavior modification boarding school. At 16-years-old, Leslie Koren was struck by severe clinical depression and seemingly overnight, transformed from a socially active and healthy teenager to someone who was unable to function. Overwhelmed and leery of institutional options, Koren's parents sent her to Oakley School,...
10) Forget Us Not
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Narrated by Ron Perlman, this award-winning film offers a moving account of the 5 million additional people killed during the Holocaust. Undesired minorities, gays, the disabled: 1st hand survivor stories remind us what happens when bigotry ascends.
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Award-winning filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi release a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood – they follow Mir and his familyfilmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe. They form a portrait of embattled Afghanistan that no other film has ever captured. War, politics, poverty, and heartbreak – all seen from the level of a child frolicking in a muddy, bullet-laden pool, playing soccer on a dirt pitch,...
12) White Riot
Publisher
Film Movement
Description
Britain, late-1970s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration. The National Front, a far-right and fascist political party, is gaining strength as politicians like Enoch Powell push a xenophobic agenda. Outraged by a racist speech from Eric Clapton, music photographer Red Saunders writes a letter to the music press, calling for rock to be a force against racism. NME, Melody Maker, and Sounds all publish the letter. Flooded...
13) The Street Vet
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Dr. Kwane Stewart walks the streets, providing medical care to homeless pets!
14) Love Chinatown
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When New York City’s Chinatown was hit hard early on in January 2020 due to the coronavirus, partners Moonlynn Tsai and Yin Chang weren’t content to just be bystanders. Local businesses were closing their doors, and members of the community were being violently attacked due to racism and xenophobia. Tsai, as co-owner of Malaysian restaurant Kopitiam, decided to use her restaurant as an anchor for “Heart of Dinner,” a community relief effort...
15) Sound and Fury
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Focuses on two the families with young deaf children and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their Deaf identity.
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In Germany, concerned citizens step forward to save an ancient forest from Europe’s largest coal mine. They form an unlikely alliance with a frustrated community in rural England who are forced into action to protect their homes from a new opencast coal mine. FINITE: THE CLIMATE OF CHANGE is an insider’s view of the world of direct action; a raw, authentic and emotional insight into the David and Goliath battle between frontline communities, activists...
17) Robin Bank
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This is the story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who stole half a million euros from thirty-nine different banks and then donated it all to social causes. Facing certain imprisonment, Duran went on the run in 2013 but he continues to work on underground movements of economic disobedience. This caught the attention of director Anna Giralt Gris who goes on a mission to find him and investigate the consequences of his actions. But as she unravels...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An inspiring story about a global movement to reclaim our largest public spaces, our streets. For Dulcie, stopping vehicular violence has become a life mission. Both Dulcie and her mother were victims of hit-and-run crashes, 10 years apart. For Stacey, inaction by her city council after five pedestrians were hit by cars in her neighborhood, has led to her fight for change.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
National Teachers Academy (NTA) is a top-ranked, high-achieving elementary school just south of downtown Chicago, with a thriving population of mostly low-income and Black students. But, as the neighborhood grows and gentrifies, a parents’ group eager for a high school in the community seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. As the Chicago Public Schools administrators, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the city's politicians debate the...
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