Director Joshua Caldwell and scriptwriter Stephen Camelio tell a familiar story—that of a wounded veteran needing more than just physical healing—but with a different twist. The healing comes through fly fishing. And what for a while looks like will become a romance turns out to be something else. And amend that “a wounded veteran needing…healing”–there …
Let Me Have My Son (2023)
Writer/director Cristobal Krusen’s previous two films—Final Solution and Sabina K.–focus upon other people facing crises of values and faith, but his newest film—Let Me Have My Son—is a fictionalized story of his own spiritual journey that centers on his son’s descent into mental illness. He takes us on a surrealistic journey of a father visiting …
Amsterdam (2022)
Though Amsterdam is a romantic comedy-thriller set in the 30s, it deals with racism & fascism, making it very relevant to today’s fascists movement.
Happening (2021)
French student Anne desperately searches for a way to end her pregnancy, but it is 1963, & a harsh law criminalizes abortion, punishing both patient & any medical personel who aids her.
5B (2018)
A powerful film about the pioneering healthcare workers who first confronted AIDS. Click the film’s title to read my entire review.
The Murderers Among Us (1946)
An ex-German soldier & a Jewish girl home from a concentration camp each struggle in Berlin with horrific WW 2 experiences .
The African Doctor (2016)
French director Julien Rambaldi’s true story about freshly graduated Dr. Seyolo Zantoko (Marc Zinga) reveals that racial prejudice is not just an American or South African concern. Even in France, to which so many African American singers and musicians once fled for refuge, there are pockets of racism. Although in cosmopolitan Paris blacks were accepted …
The Heart of Nuba (2016)
This moving documentary is worth the effort to see it. Click the image to read my entire review.
The Innocents (2016)
This haunting film, set in the aftermath of WWII, is one you shouldn’t miss. Click the image to read my entire review.
KORCZAK (1990)
This is the story of the last few years of the life of Dr. Korczak, well known for his writing & radio broadcasts, when the Nazis forced all Jews into t. Warsaw Ghetto, and he tried to protect children in his orphanage from deportation.