Resilience Movies

As Lorena gears up for a make-or-break fight, she battles anxiety and a hostile environment, risking her sports sponsorship dreams.

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

When Roger Lee slips on his front steps, he has no idea the fall will send him spiralling into the darkest chapter of his life. Injured, and drowning...

An 80-year-old former fashion model and cult film actress reflects on her life after surviving cancer and COVID.

An intimate encounter with Marie-Lise through a wishlist of activities of her own.

In a world obsessed with happiness, so many of us are feeling more lost than ever. After a life-altering accident, Tim travels across four countries...

In 2014, the University of Florida women's softball team was the best it's ever been - and it's all thanks to one young woman, Heather Braswell....

When fifteen year old Mercy faces the unimaginable, her courage and resilience come to the fore. What could have been the end of her story is only...

In the Sardinian town of Tonara, where the ancient art of crafting cowbells teeters on the edge of extinction, a family battles to preserve their...

The story focuses on the resilience of a girl in the face of the loss of her grandfather.

Follows the defiance of two art institutions in the Caribbean: one closed but squatted by artists, the other fighting to stay open. Against the...

For the first time, survivors talk about life after the camps. How does one return to a life that was interrupted with such violence? How does one...

A retired teacher’s journey living with essential tremor becomes a poetic meditation on identity, aging, and the quiet power of human...

A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.

A young painter battling depression finds solace in her art and alcohol, but her inner thoughts eventually surface, forcing her to confront them....

An actress finds herself trapped by an algorithm that hijacks extracts from her films for distribution on porn sites. After months with no help from...

Two high school girl wrestlers fight to make history and earn what they dreamed of for years - a gold medal in Pennsylvania's first official girl's...