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. We travel to film festivals all over the world and encourage submissions from undiscovered filmmakers to seek out the stories that deserve an audience.
Out of the hundreds of films we review throughout the year, our acquisitions team handpicks the most enriching ones 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.
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.
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Eve and the Fire Horse
Two sisters growing up in a Chinese family in Canada attempt to understand religion from a uniquely childlike perspective. Picking and choosing their favorite parts of each religion, they form their own faith- and then face the challenge of forging a place for this faith within their traditional Buddhist family. An incredible spiritual journey into the heart and soul of what religion is and what religion does for each of us on our own individual journeys.
Current Month's Films
Adam & Evelyn
A blind date is interrupted by two strangers on a mission in one of the strangest and most wonderful shorts we’ve seen. Adam and Evelyn is a musical comedy that imagines what would happen if an ancient ritual were to be performed today, in our modern society.
22 minutes in English. Written and directed by Tom Metz III.
A Walk in the Park
A man in a state of despair after having lost the opportunity to land his dream job, meets up with a couple of New York City misfits and embarks on a day of fun and frivolity, waking him up to the friendship and joy that awaits us all on any given day.
13 minutes in English. Written by Seth Fisher and directed by Christian Remde.
The Aviatrix
A young woman battling cancer faces her demons in another dimension in this unsentimental, sci-fi short film.
10 minutes in English. Written and directed by Toddy Burton.
One (W)
ONE reminds us of our similarities while celebrating our differences, leaving us with a message of hope about our true destiny.
79 minutes in English. Directed by Ward Powers.
