The Promise

The Maya Mam invite you to celebrate with them as we follow Jun Kanek who’s getting ready to participate in a traditional ceremony honouring his people.

“Tomorrow’s Hope” brings us into the journey of passionate educators and tenacious kids determined to carve out the future despite daunting realities on Chicago’s South Side. Reconnecting with three high school seniors who had started out in the Educare Preschool’s first-ever class, the film explores how early education can set forth lasting pathways for brighter outcomes - even in the most brutally unforgiving of environments. As the contrast of promises kept emerges against a formidable backdrop of promises broken, “Tomorrow’s Hope” celebrates the thirst for understanding and the resilience of the human spirit.

Travel to Israel and radically change your understanding of the Scriptures. Wet your feet in the Jordan River and impact the culture with life-giving water. Show your trust in the Lord's provision by offering up first fruits at Jericho. And cleanse the land by confronting evil and using the tools of society to redeem your world for God. In this first volume of the "That the World May Know" series, historian and teacher Ray Vander Laan will show you how God guided his people to a specific place - the Promised Land - to impact the world both in ancient times and today.

Jane Corbin explores the legacy of the Balfour Declaration on a journey that starts in her home village. She explores the role her ancestor, British politician Leo Amery, played in the drafting of the declaration, issued by the government in 1917.

"If we turn thirty and still haven't found someone, we promise that we will marry each other". Afraid of the consequences of breaking their promise, best friends Dave and Pie become spouses in order to fulfil a vow they made in university.

Have you ever wondered how big the Sea of Galilee really is, or how hard it would be to climb Mt. Sinai? Have you thought about what Abraham's life was actually like? Well, Stevie is in the land of the Bible to find out!

Have you ever wanted to float on the Sea of Galilee and see where Jesus grew up and where He performed His miracles? Well, Stevie is in the land of the Bible to find out!

A silent film retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring and soundtracked by Malice Mizer. Jonathan (Klaha), engaged to Cecil (Terumi Nagayoshi) has received a letter from the Earl of Dracula (Yu~ki) who asks him to travel to Transylvania to finalize the purchase of a manor which causes him to push back his wedding, soon after he arrives Dracula imprisons Jonathan and travels to London to meet Cecil. Meanwhile, the resident Vampire in London (Közi) is not happy that Dracula has gone there to hunt and attempts to thwart Dracula's wishes but is prevented by his sister the Nun (Mana) who is a minion of Dracula.

Ace is standing in her office reminiscing over her past adventures with the Seventh Doctor, when suddenly the sound of the TARDIS is heard and the Doctor knocks on her door and she runs off.

With immigration forces in pursuit, Mary, an illegal foreign worker living in Israel, must decide between uprooting her son from the only place he calls home or risk being deported.

In this lyrical and immersive installation by Deborah Jack, shots of lush orange pomegranates mix with the ocean, sky, and shoreline. Filmed by the artist around her mother's home on Saint Martin, these images appear alongside footage of salt mining from a 1948 Dutch documentary about the island. Pomegranates and salt, both emblems of death and rebirth, share a common legacy as commodities of the colonial economy in the region. Using movement, color, and time, Jack's installation serves as a condemnation of the destructive nature of economies based on resource extraction, as well as a reclamation of the Caribbean's visual and material cultures. Her work complicates fixed understandings of the Caribbean, offering an invitation into the myriad, shifting histories and identities held within the landscape itself.

A film by Freude

After the death of Zain’s mother and during the preparation of the burials, Zain irrationally decides to steal his mother’s body, fulfilling a long-awaited promise he made to her.

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked like they had white socks on. Akari was together with Socks day and night. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend.One day Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made with Socks and her deceased mother...

The wagon train on the way to Kentucky has to lighten the loads to get across the mountains and battle Indians.

Prolific backdrop artist Sarah Oliphant hopes to guide her daughter Violet in artistic pursuits of her own.

Documentary footage of settlers in Israel

Composed of material from the FBI Vault and the Jonestown Institute, this work consists of several sequences of monologues, confessions, and speeches by members and personalities of the United States and the Soviet Union. By juxtaposing this audio-visual archive with the video game Outlast 2, which was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide, the film attempts to expose the abandonment of the quest for a Promised Land by Jonestown members. This abandonment, in the end, was also that of religious socialism.