A Secular Pilgrim In Jerusalem
Directed by: Elena Canetti (white)
One morning in Jerusalem, Elena wakes up to the emptiness of her life. She is Forty-five years old with no children, and no faith. Elena embarks on a cautious journey among the world's three monotheistic religions, all found in the streets of her city. The well-trodden road changes constantly.
Unexpected meetings challenge her beliefs. What will she find at the end of the road? Will it be the answer she has been looking for?
A.W.O.L (A Way of Life After Breast Cancer)
Saving Carren
Directed by: Deborah GregorySaving Carren documents the story of a retired cop who risks everything to save his daughter who has fallen prey to the destructive power of methamphetamines. Beginning with Carren's rape at the age of 14, the film takes its audience on a journey through the darkest corners of Carren’s pasts. Alternating between stark animation and riveting personal narrative, this documentary allows access to the private nightmare of a meth addict's world. Is a father’s love strong enough to bring both himself and his daughter back from the brink of death?
Sunday March 28th 6:00pm (trt 53min) Buy Tickets
Stock Shock
Directed by: Sandra Mohr
Sirius Satellite Radio seemed like a sure-fire investment with its commercial free music and blockbuster talent. After buying out their only competition in 2008 the stock was poised to go through the roof, but something went horribly wrong. Like fellow investors who had put their money in the once safe holdings of banks and mortgage lenders Sirius XM stockholders stood by helplessly as the value of their retirement funds disappeared and with it their life savings. Was it the bad economy, mismanagement, or something even more sinister? Stock Shock exposes the down and dirty schemes and calculated market manipulations behind the glitter of Wall Street.
Sunday March 28 4:00pm (trt 73min) Buy Tickets
Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy
Directed by: Renee Bergan
Told through the compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal story explains neoliberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti. Even though Poto Mitan offers in-depth understanding of Haiti, its focus on women’s subjugation, worker exploitation, poverty, and resistance demonstrates these are global struggles. Initiated by the subjects themselves, Poto Mitan aims to inspire solidarity activism to end injustice in the global economy. This documentary reminds us that our struggles have a common thread.
Sunday March 28th 8:00pm (trt 50min) Buy Tickets
Sunshine
Directed by: Karen Skloss
Woven together from over 10 years of super 8 and video home movies, intimate family interviews, shimmering dance sequences and stylized reenactments filmmaker Karen Skloss explores the meaning of family. To understand both the legacy of Skloss birth and the non-traditional family she created by co-parenting with her ex-boyfriend. As an unwed teenager, Skloss' mother went to a home for unwed mothers and gave her up for adoption in 1975. Now as the pair reconnect Karen contemplates her relationship with her own daughter, Jasmine. Young, pregnant, single and unprepared, this director struggles with the incredible ironies of the family—that history somehow repeated itself, and that the most strenuous efforts to protect the idea of family can actually do the most to pull families apart.
Sunday March 28th 2:00pm (trt 73min) Buy Tickets
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
Directed by: Amanda Pope
A charismatic figure immortalized in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff, Florence 'Pancho' Barnes was one of the most important women in 20th Century aviation. A tough and fearless pilot, Pancho flew on Amelia Earhart's wingtip, performed as a barnstormer throughout California, and made a name for herself as Hollywood's first female stunt pilot in the 1920's and 30's. Just before WWII she opened 'Happy Bottom Riding Club', a ranch near Edwards Air Force Base that became a famous -- some would say notorious -- hangout for test pilots and movie stars. Pancho herself has become something of a legend, a fascinating yet enigmatic icon whose swagger is often celebrated, but whose story is largely unknown. Until now.
Tuesday March 30th 4:00pm (trt 66min) Buy Tickets
The Stem Cell Divide
Directed by: Barbara Langsam Shuman
The Stem Cell Divide examines the controversy over embryonic stem cell research, which has galvanized the scientific, religious and political sectors in the United States. This documentary shows how Missouri became a central battleground in the debate, which transcends geography, religion, party affiliation, race, gender, age and socioeconomic status. Showing both sides and challenging assumptions, this film explores the passions and principles of patients, citizen advocates, scientists and policy makers.
Thursday April 1st 1:30pm (trt 90min) Buy Tickets
Veiled Voices
Veiled Voices introduces American audiences to the world of Muslim women religious leaders, women who are reviving their leadership role in Islam across the Arab world. In winters 2007 and 2009, filmmaker Brigid Maher ventured into a world never before filmed, meeting extraordinary women in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. This documentary concentrates on the stories of three women and their public and private struggles as religious leaders in their communities.
Wednesday March 31st 1:00pm (trt 60min) Buy Tickets
Which Way to the War?
Directed by: Sue Useem
Filmed over a three-year period, Which Way to the War? delves into the heart of religious conflict in Poso and Indonesia. American filmmaker Sue Useem and her team traveled to some of the most remote regions of Indonesia to document the dynamics and anatomy of religiously motivated violence in this overwhelmingly tolerant nation. With hundreds of hours of filming and scores of interviews with politicians, officers, activists, journalists, victims, perpetrators, analysts, and citizens, this film reveals the true story of the wrenching Poso conflict and their redeeming rehabilitation in the conflict's aftermath.
Tuesday March 30th 1:30pm (trt 100min) Buy Tickets