A Guide to Recognizing your Saints 2006

Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father’s ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?

Five Fingers 2006

While traveling to Morocco to initiate a food program of his own to help poor kids, the Dutch Martijn is kidnapped by a group of terrorists and his guide Gavin is executed in cold blood in front of him. Along the days, Martijn is tortured by a Muslin man and Aicha and looses four fingers. In the end, the truth about his travel is finally disclosed.

Magdalene Sisters 2002

A True Story That is Compelling and Shocking But Needs To Be Told! A Horrific and Gripping Recounting of True Evil! A must-see motion picture hailed by the critics, the movie is the triumphant story of three extraordinary women whose courage to defy a century of injustice would inspire a nation!

A movie guaranteed to make the blood boil, The Magdalene Sisters gives a lacerating account of life inside a Magdalene Laundry, one of the dismal asylums for “wayward women” run by the Catholic Church in Ireland. Director Peter Mullan, inspired by a TV documentary on the same subject, follows the miserable fates of three young women who are institutionalized in the 1960s for flimsy reasons; their lives are at the mercy of sadistic nuns. The film sounds tortuous, but its rich sense of outrage and excellent performances make it consistently gripping. The movie won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and went on to become a box-office hit in many countries, where the Magdalene system was still a fresh memory.