Interfaith Film Series

The Band’s Visit 

1h 27min

2008

PG-13

A brass band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center. But due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, find themselves stranded in a desolate, almost forgotten, small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart of the desert. 

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Of Gods and Men 

2hr 3min

2011

PG-13

Loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibéhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996, OF GODS AND MEN tells a story of eight French Christian monks who live in harmony with their Muslim brothers.

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 Black Robe 

1hr 41 min

1991

R

The compelling saga of Father LaForgue, an ambitious 17th-century Jesuit priest, whom is regarded with a combination of warmth and wariness by the natives, who refer to LaForgue and his fellow priests as “black robes.” the by-the-book LaForgue does little to endear himself to the Indians-one of whom, a holy man, labels the priest as a demon who will bring nothing but death and destruction. 

  Viceroy’s House 

1h 46min

2017

UNRATED

A 2017 historical drama about Hindu and Muslim conflict during the transition of British India to independence, starring Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson. 

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  Run Boy Run 

1h 47min

2016

13+

The adaptation of Uri Orlev’s novel tells the story of a Jewish boy who flees the Warsaw Ghetto, goes into hiding 

as a Christian and worries he will 

lose his identity. 

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  Frank vs. God 

1hr 41min

2017

16+

A comic drama about a man who sues God after a tornado that destroyed his house is labeled “an act of God.” 

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  The Innocents 

1h 55min

2016

PG-13

In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced stages of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent. 

Includes English subtitles 

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  Divided We Fall 

2h 2min

2001

PG-13

In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agrees to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution. Moments of dark humor. 

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Bombay 

2h 24min

1995

18+

A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear 

the family apart. 

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  A Borrowed Identity 

1h 44min

2015

NR

Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his schoolmates within Israeli society, he falls in love with a Jewish girl and discovers that he will have to sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. English subtitles 

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  Hassan and Marcus 

1h 52 min

2008

The lives of a Muslim sheikh and a Christian priest are threatened by extremists on both sides. 

Mr. and Mrs. Iyer 

2h 9min

2002

A woman (Konkoka Sensharma) saves a photographer (Rahul Bose) from Hindu extremists, and together they become stranded in a town under martial law.

  The Other Son 

1h 45min

2012

PG-13

As he is preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents' biological son, and that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacine, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. 

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  Kinyarwanda 

1h 40min

2012

13+

During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. Kinyarwanda interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative that provides the most complex and real depiction yet presented of human resilience and life during the genocide. 

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  Eve and the Fire Horse 

92 min

2005

PG

Special Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic Jury) - 2006 Sundance Film Festival Eve and the Fire Horse is a magical and intelligent film. A first-time feature by Canadian director Julia Kwan, Eve and the Fire Horse tells the story of two young Chinese-Canadian girls who, while being raised with Chinese Buddhism, begin to learn about and embrace Roman Catholicism.

  The Reluctant Fundamentalist 

2hr 9min

2013

R

The 2012 drama, directed by Mira Nair ("Monsoon Wedding," "The Namesake") tells the story of a Pakistani immigrant to America working on Wall Street. He feels torn between his traditional family and his dreams of success 

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The Cup 

1hr 34min

1999

G

A 1999 Bhutanese comedy about two boys who enter a Buddhist monastery in the grip of World Cup fever. It is in Hindi and Tibetan with subtitles. 

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  Dharm 

The story of a Hindu priest who raises an adopted boy and then discovers that the child is a Muslim. It is in Hindi with subtitles.