Resilience Movies

Inspired by the poem Hamza by the great Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan, compares and connects the mystery of the fertility of the Palestinian land to...

"1985: Heroes among Ruins" is a reflection of disaster. It is about the human solidarity, the search and rescue and the importance of civil...

A violated girl is trapped in an underworld of shame. As a child, she was exploited by her father and his friends, and then thrown to the streets as...

The film follows five people who lost their sight in armed conflicts, gathering fragments of their present-day lives. Through an enveloping sound...

Inspired by the viral true story of Panchi-kun, an infant macaque rejected by his mother at Ichikawa City Zoo, Japan. In this fictionalized narrative...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

For the first time, survivors talk about life after the camps. How does one return to a life that was interrupted with such violence? How does one...

Brayden Olson has spent his life wondering about the father he never knew. Armed with only a name, a faded photograph, and an improbable lead, he...

A taxi driver, already struggling to support his wife and children, finds an abandoned baby in the back of his cab.

A rising cricket prodigy forgoes his dreams and sets out to bring peace in his home from the clutches of his toxic father.

Award-winning documentary Resilience & Sacrifice follows an emerging musician who shelved his dreams to raise his family. Years later, he returns to...

In a world obsessed with happiness, so many of us are feeling more lost than ever. After a life-altering accident, Tim travels across four countries...

Sprout. In the vacant lots against the hammering of buildings always under construction, between walls of granite, cement and sheet metal with rust,...

A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.

The Mirror Room is a 38-minute hybrid AI + human film by Malaysian artist Armen Jay. Part monologue, part memory ritual, this cinematic experience...

In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 110 Africans stolen from their homes and families,...

Light Upon Light: A Documentary on Hijab is an intimate and deeply personal exploration of the diverse, raw, and untold stories of hijabi women....