Is it God or is it...? Thank you to our screening partner: <a href="https://motherbethel.org/" target="_blank">Mother Bethel AME Church</a>.

North Carolina, 1971. After his rural community is ravaged by inexplicable disappearances, a devoted reverend discovers an extraterrestrial explanation.

Jesus Is Coming (to Take the Church Away)

North Carolina, 1971. After his rural community is ravaged by inexplicable disappearances, a devoted reverend discovers an extraterrestrial explanation.

James, a preacher who has fallen from grace after a corruption scandal in the city, is assigned to build a new church in a distant rural community. Accompanied by his wife Mavis, James views this as a second chance for himself and his family. However, the major obstacle in his way is a staunch, revered traditional healer named Chirongoma.

God Sleeps on Sundays

James, a preacher who has fallen from grace after a corruption scandal in the city, is assigned to build a new church in a distant rural community. Accompanied by his wife, Mavis, James views this as a second chance for himself and his family. However, the major obstacle in his way is a staunch, revered traditional healer named Chirongoma.

In a world shaped before her time, Kya is learning softer, slower, freer ways to exist. When her mother, Gigi, unexpectedly arrives, she brings with her the generational discord Kya has been quietly working through. Rather than resist her mother’s presence, Kya learns to move with it. She seeks refuge in healing rituals with a circle of women she trusts, guided by a powerful healer named Martha, whose ancient medicine, Rapé, loosens something long buried in Kya and begins to soothe her generational wound. Through tears and sacred smoke and the roar of the ocean, her journey is revealed. And she finds the courage to hold her mother’s story, her grandmother’s story and her great-grandmother’s story with tenderness.

For Peace of Mind

As Kya prepares for another healing ceremony, she is confronted by old wounds when her estranged mother shows up unannounced.

Claudia is an unlucky and fatalistic young woman. During an esoteric event in a bookstore, a disturbing apparition in an aura photo will turn her day and her friend Antonia’s upside down.

The Aura (L'Aura)

Claudia is an unlucky and fatalistic young woman. During an esoteric event in a bookstore, a disturbing apparition in an aura photo will turn her day and her friend Antonia’s upside down.

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