S&P Awards
The Most Spiritually Literate Films of ...
20 Days in Mariupol
Courageous reporting of the horrors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine by journalists on the ground as a city is destroyed.
Documentary
Air
An immensely entertaining drama based on true events that changed the game and the business of basketball.
Feature
American Fiction
A satire with heart challenging the stereotypes and narrative tropes in Black fiction.
Feature
American Symphony
A love story about how the creative process creates both music and healing.
Documentary
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
An enchanting dramady about an eleven-year old girl dealing with her changing body and her curiosity about religion.
Feature
Asteroid City
A play within a film about learning to see the world and all its surprises with wide-awake eyes.
Feature
Barbie
A sassy comedy that raises questions for people of all ages about what it means to frame your life as a quest.
Feature
Beyond Utopia
A documentary that embeds viewers with defectors from North Korea on their harrowing journey to freedom.
Documentary
Chile '76
A political and psychological thriller about the moral struggle of a bourgeois women living under a dictatorship.
International
Earth Mama
Touching story of a single mother who is trying to reshape her life to regain custody of her small children.
Feature
Fallen Leaves
A heartfelt romantic drama about two lonely people with the courage to fall in love.
International
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
A pilgrimage with Pope Francis to visit the people and express his concerns for the world.
Documentary
Killers of the Flower Moon
A love story set amidst a series of murders revealing how indigenous people have been victims of the shadow side of American society -- racism and white supremacy.
Feature
Maestro
A biopicture about how the marriage of Leonard and Felicia Bernstein influenced his career.
Feature
Oppenheimer
An intense, inventively filmed, and well-acted biopicture about the kinds of events that are hard on the heart.
Feature
Past Lives
What happens when three spiritually mature adults make a love triangle?
Feature
Perfect Days
Two weeks in the life of a cleaner of public toilets in Tokyo with a luminous performance by Koji Yakusho as an exemplar of everyday spirituality.
International
Rose
A road trip during which we meet a schizophrenic character and learn to see beyond stigma.
International
Rustin
An inspiring biopicture of the civil rights leader who organized the March on Washington.
Feature
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
An extraordinarily intimate portrait of the actor who used a diagnosis of Parkinson’s to discover who he really was and what he could do for the world.
Documentary
The Boy and the Heron
A boy’s spiritual journey through grief to commitment, conveyed through wonder-inducing animation.
Animated
The Holdovers
A dramedy about three people reframing sadness and loneliness during the holidays.
Feature
The Monk and the Gun
An insightful film about how Bhutanese villagers respond to changes coming through the influence of the West.
Feature
The Taste of Things
A love story revolving around the awe cooks bring to the preparation of food.
International
The Teacher's Lounge
Portrait of a school in crisis that mirrors clashes in the larger society between authorities in power and those accused of wrongdoing.
International
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
An adaptation of a Ronald Dahl story about changing your life and doing the impossible.
Feature
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
A creative portrait of a lover of Mystery.
Documentary
You Hurt My Feelings
An insightful comedy about the epidemic of lying and the lack of trust afoot on all levels of society.
Feature
