Resilience Movies

Faced with mounting debt and the heartbreak of being unable to fund his children’s education, Emmanuel Mutema is a desperate single father...

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

Follows the defiance of two art institutions in the Caribbean: one closed but squatted by artists, the other fighting to stay open. Against the...

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

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

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

In 1967, Beulah struck Reynosa. Family survives through images from memory circling the wreck. Rituals of celebration and violence like hurricane,...

A Haitian woman's tranquil life is shattered by foreigners as she fights to stay alive and protect her ancestral land, unleashing a journey of...

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

In a vibrant yet dystopian Dubai, aspiring writer Carol struggles with her perfectionism while stuck in a mundane job. Her carefree boyfriend,...

Touching, growing, caring, dancing. Seedlings climbing around fingertips, birds morphing into humans. But the tender touches slowly fade as the...

Dreams in Gaza are being shattered just like homes, with only a moment separating us from death. One blade threatens everyone, and one hand reaches...

After the end of an intense relationship, Aurora returns to the places that marked its beginning and end. While reliving good and painful memories,...

A retired teacher’s journey living with essential tremor becomes a poetic meditation on identity, aging, and the quiet power of human...

Seen through the lens of a window pane, Outside Looking In invites you to peer through a window of a quaint apartment, where a lone Ballerina’s...