A Funeral for Lightning

The Ball Method

2020

Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.

Just One Night

2019

Two best friends, Rum and Yusra, both devout Muslims, put aside their religious convictions to enjoy a night on the town where secrets are surfaced and their friendship is put to the test.

Burying Doris

Doris and Quinn watch tv, until it's time for the Doctors. This is the prequel short to the feature film-- BURYING DORIS, where an estranged New England farm family is forced home to settle the estate of their beloved grandmother as well as a few lifelong grudges.

Sign

2016

'SIGN' is a short film that tells, through vignettes, music, and sign language, the story of a relationship between Ben, a hearing man, and Aaron, who is deaf.

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

1999

Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal bishop, who was born a slave, and a woman with an inter-racial background. With the support of each other and their family, they survived encounters with racism and sexism in their own different ways. Sadie quietly and sweetly broke barriers to become the first African-American home-ec teacher in New York City, while Bessie, with her own brand of outspokenness, became the second African-American dentist in New York City. At the ages of 103 and 101, they told their story to Amy Hill Hearth, a white New York Times reporter who published an article about them. The overwhelming response launched a bestselling book, a Broadway play, and this film.

First Crush

2023

They connected through music. Now, with Yujia gone, Jiankai plays his heart to bring him back.

A Naked Boy

2015

A forty-five-year-old history teacher, Jin-tae, has hallucinations about one of his students.

Katshinau

2023

In New France before the British Conquest, Marie, an indigenous slave, serves the local surgeon. Her daily life of household chores is bleak and alienating. The encounter with a young girl she presumes to be her child will give her motivation to undertake radical actions.

My Life Without Me

2003

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

The Secret Life of Words

2005

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

Open Hearts

2002

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

Italian for Beginners

2000

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.