Learn About Family Movies and Stories of Inspiration from Spiritual Cinema Circle
Traditionally, movies make it to your local theater by way of studios that see enough financial potential to make money on them. Smaller filmmakers-or just filmmakers with non-mainstream films-usually don't get their movies shown in a theater outside of a film festival. Spiritual Cinema Circle travels to film festivals all over the world and encourage submissions from undiscovered filmmakers to seek out the stories that deserve an audience.
Spiritual films hand-selected just for our members
Out of the hundreds of spiritual movies, family films and stories of inspiration we review throughout the year, our acquisitions team handpicks the most enriching, uplifting and inspirational movies to pass along to you. Each one is a movie with a story that matters. Stories that remind us about what it means to be human. That explore new possibilities. That help us understand more of the world around us.
Our selections include a wide range of topics - from the power of the mind in What the Bleep Do We Know!? to living compassionately in The Tea Cup to the empowering message of creating your own destiny in The Secret or Illusion.
A rare venue for meaningful movies
Spiritual Cinema Circle offers the opportunity for moviemakers to take a chance on subjects and storylines that have the power to become something much more than a movie. As a member, you help give these conscious filmmakers a voice. Even films that receive audience acclaim at small film festivals rarely ever get seen again. Together we're helping change that.
Volume 3, 2010 (Currently Shipping)
The Journal
Having spent most of his life feeling alone, as a result of losing his mother at an early age, Alex discovers a journal she has left behind for him. Will he be able to accept the gift she has given him?
18 min. Written and directed by Sam Wasserman
Mr. Jimmy's Birthday Challenge
To celebrate his 80th birthday, Mississippi native Jimmy Moore attempts to run, walk, or bike 80 kilometers — one for each year of his life — in a single day. The former railroad worker, who “always sets his finish line over the horizon” inspires us to live life to the fullest.
26 min. Written and directed by Samantha Davidson Green
Red Wednesday
A young Iranian-American girl hopes to rejuvenate her ailing mother with a Zoroastrian fire celebration — to provide health and happiness in the New Year.
CONTENT WARNING: Contains adult elements (brief sexual scenes).
11 min. in English and with English subtitles. Written and directed by Nazanin Shirazi.
Uncross the Stars
When Troy (Daniel Gillies) loses his beautiful young wife, he follows her enigmatic last request: to drive to the desert and build his Aunt Hilda (Barbara Hershey) a porch, and to “uncross the stars.” He meets a group of bawdy, wisecracking older women and a Vietnam vet (Ron Perlman) who show him a different outlook on life and death.
96 min. Written by Ted Henning. Directed by Kenny Golde.
