Film Rest

Andrea is trapped in a temporal loop. Will she be able to break it?

After being berated by his Acting Coach, struggling actor Paul Denby embarks on a new line of work. His infatuated colleague George Sheperd offers him a part-time gig while he is out in L.A. Desperate for cash, Paul finds himself in the confines of the infamous Chelsea Hotel, locked in a room with a strange old man who has a unique role in store for him.

Set in Fall 2001 at Blair University, a motley crew of college students spring into action when forced to face a campus-wide mental health crisis.

Jammed in a job they loathe and exhausted by all the social impositions that surround them, Bárbara and Luiz, in their twenties, decide to leave together for a friend's house seeking for emotional refuge. Inside the place, always full with extravagant parties, both externalize all their cravings and repressed desires.

A young Romanian immigrant who recently moved to Montreal with her mother misses home, and soon realizes that her life will not be going back to the way things were.

This film recounts how Joseph Smith's search for truth led to a heavenly vision and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff.

Iris, a recently sober alcoholic, is due in court tomorrow: rested and prepared. Unable to fall asleep, she battles the voices in her head and her own desire for a drink as the night stretches on, seemingly without end.

Alex Quinn and her uniquely gifted team must prevent a drug lord from revealing damaging information right before the presidential election. What her client doesn't know is that Quinn has an ulterior motive for accepting this assignment - vengeance.

Food is about more than just nutrition. It shapes our identities, builds communities and nourishes our souls. Food for the Rest of Us presents 4 inspirational stories of people living life on their own terms, serving as leaders and role models who are lending their voice to the underdog and leading a revolution to a better world, from the ground up! An Indigenous-owned, youth-run organic farm in Hawaii, and Black urban grower in Kansas City who runs a land-farm at East High School, a female Kosher Butcher in Colorado working with the Queer Community and an Inuit community on the Arctic Coast who are adapting to climate change with a community garden in a small geodesic dome, all show us new ways of relating to how we grow, cook, sell and serve. Exploring the relationship between Black Lives Matter, Idle No More, Times Up and grassroots food movements, the film shows us how powerful food can be for building and empowering communities and inspiring change.

The people who knew Rich Mullins best relate their sense of loss tempered by the glory of their hope as they discuss his life and ministry. Includes previously unseen footage of Mullins.

BECAUSE THE REST IS SILENCE reconfigures aspects of Kötting’s previous moving image works, which focus on the idea of place. But perhaps more importantly the potential for temporal disjunction, memory, misremembrance and the persistence of the past within much of his work. An hauntological gadabout inclusive of images and out-takes from his journeying and the films EDITH WALKS, GALLIVANT, LEK AND THE DOGS & WATLING STREET. However, the glue that holds much of the film together is the sound and music gleaned from his INSIDEOUT CD published through Sonic Arts Network many moons ago. Films of memory breed more films of memory. Ultimately Memory begets more memory.

An exploration of the serious yet fabricated medical condition known as "Bicycle Face".

In these divided times, religious institutions are losing young members and even closing their doors at an alarming rate. Director Aaron Wolf's personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, a universal story of hope as a treasured local temple near demise, is lifted up by a community's determination to achieve the impossible. Wolf's journey explores how when any community puts their mind to it, the impossible becomes possible. Wilshire Boulevard Temple, a Los Angeles treasure built by the original Hollywood moguls, needs to raise millions to restore its majesty and vibrancy, thus also restoring the future of the Jewish community, the greater Los Angeles community-and on a personal level, Wolf himself.

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of H. Spencer Lewis's initiation into the Rosicrucian Tradition, the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC presents this inspiring DVD about the life of H. Spencer Lewis and the mystical experiences that led him to seek out the Rosicrucians in France and then to establish the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC in America.