Manhattan Film Festival

In the US, one in seven men are victims of domestic violence. Healing Voices-Personal Stories interviewed three residents of a shelter that provides services specifically for men. While the three men's circumstances differ, their stories echo each o...

An immigrant struggles with guilt after calling the police on her abusive husband, which results in his deportation.

Follow Brad, a middle aged advertising executive, as his world is suddenly turned upside down. Thrust from his life of 'success', he has no choice but to face his many shortcomings as he tries to deal with the relationships in his life. Once a man in...

As the air raid sirens go off, Jake and his daughter retreat to the make-shift bomb shelter in their Brooklyn basement, and are soon joined by several neighbors. Tensions run high as the diverse group tries to remain calm while bombs go off outside t...

It’s a big day for Matthew. He is about to be released from a state psychiatric hospital ten years after he meticulously planned, but never executed, a mass act of violence at his high school. A decade after his arrest, the townspeople vehemently...

Filmmaker and adoptee, Rebecca Autumn Sansom, alongside her first mother, Jill Hawkins, Ph.D., have produced the first feature length documentary about author Nancy Verrier’s landmark book, The Primal Wound. It’s also the first film to star Verri...

A young father, Byron, sitting in a therapy session opens up about his son starting kindergarten. As Byron projects his feelings to Dr. Givens about his son’s first day, he’s reminded of his own battles with the educational system. However, the...

Jack, a young man suffering from sleep deprivation is studying for an exam. After receiving some bad news and falling asleep, Jack finds himself greeted by disturbing figures in a reality separate from his own.

In NE Florida’s rural countryside, a young man circles, endlessly, around a ramshackle trailer. Walking mechanically, always following the same path, he mumbles to himself, bound in an inner prison. Intrigued by his behavior, a mysterious interlope...

"A young girl named Yuanyuan once lived in a happy family with loving parents. But when her mother found out that she is pregnant, her unborn brother brought upon a tense atmosphere into the family. At the same time, Yuanyuan found out about her fath...