• Chocolat: A charming and edifying comic fable about hospitality. It is set in a small French town where the repressive Catholic mayor squares off during Lent against a free-spirited woman who dispenses more than sweetness in her chocolat shop.
  • Fire On the Mountain: A documentary by David Cherniack that focuses on a 1997 meeting of indigenous leaders from around the world. They share their concerns and rituals and end with an interfaith ceremony.
  • Promises: A soul-stirring documentary about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict reveals how the children of these neighbors are hospitable toward each other even when it seems that hatred reigns supreme.
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: An inspiring documentary chronicles the humanitarian effort to save the lives of 10,000 Jewish children during the months prior to World War II.
  • Lost Boys of Sudan: An excellent documentary follows two African youth as they try to adapt to their new life in America.
  • Antonia's Line: A wonderfully eccentric film about an extended household of women demonstrates the values of feminine friendship, independence, intuition, and hospitality.
  • Babe: An animated moral masterpiece about a pig and his barnyard friends reveals the importance of hospitality, empathy, and service of others.
  • The Crazy Stranger: A Parisian outsider is taken into a Romanian gypsy community and given the space he needs.
  • As Good As It Gets: A shaggy dog romantic comedy advises us to practice hospitality to all and never to write anyone off.
  • Western: An archetypal road movie centers around two souls who are welcoming to all.
  • Louisa May Alcott's Little Men: A patient and loving couple run a school for boys and treat them all with respect, believing the best in them will surface.
  • Saved!: A scrappy satire pokes fun at the zealous intolerance of some Christians and salutes the hospitality that welcomes all.
  • Witness: A collision between two worlds is incarnated in a big city cop and an Amish woman, but a deep friendship ensues from the practice of hospitality.
  • Starman: A science fiction drama about the welcome afforded an alien becomes a way to look afresh at ourselves and to ponder what it means to be children of the Universe.
  • Planet of the Apes: A re-imagining of the 1968 science fiction classic dramatizes the clash between hostility and hospitality, bringing home the destructiveness of prejudice and hatred of "the other."
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth: A thought-provoking science fiction thriller about an extraterrestrial challenges us to re-think our easy and cruel rejection of outsiders.
  • Code Unknown: A morally provocative film examines how hate rather than hospitality manifests in the lives of some ordinary people in Paris.
  • Otomo: A riveting German film about the plight of a West African immigrant in Stuttgart draws our attention to the dehumanized and inhospitable treatment of refugees in Germany and elsewhere.
  • Distant: A thematically rich Turkish film depicts urban loneliness, the shame of unemployment, and the difficulty of practicing hospitality.
  • Short Eyes: A prison is a microcosm of society's bigotries and group pressures against undesirable outsiders.

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