films
‘Flint: The Poisoning of an American City’ gives voice to victims
October 18, 2019Flint residents have been fighting for clean water and justice since 2014. Five years and counting since the water crisis there made national news and many residents are still without access to safe water.
Read more‘By the Grace of God’: Film skewers pedophile priests in France
October 17, 2019Despite some small criticisms, it’s a riveting “spiritual” thriller that takes no “liberties with the facts,” according to the director.
Read more‘Emanuel’ recounts tragic 2015 murders in Charleston and radical Christian forgiveness
October 11, 2019The tragic incident on June 17, 2015, blazed to the top of the news: A 21-year-old white supremacist named Dylan Roof calmly entered the door to Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Read moreMarie Curie, Patty Hearst, Agnès Varda at Toronto International Film Festival
October 10, 2019She’s the only woman who won the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields—physics and chemistry. And now she's the subject of the first biopic by Iranian-born director, Marjane Satrapi.
Read more‘Shusenjo’: The WWII ‘comfort women’ issue receives a startling documentary film treatment
October 8, 2019To silence women and deny abuses and atrocities against them is unacceptable and unsupportable.
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