Best Picture Nominees 2023

 The real-life story of a Ukrainian woman who was separated from her three children and sold into trafficking by Russian gangsters. 

 The first-ever "faith-based anthology film" featuring four stories about forgiveness, love, hope and faith. 

 A man's quest to discover if he was saved by a miracle. 

 The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers. 

 A jaded reporter is demoted to a rural news station, but her cynicism is slowly transformed when she befriends a recovering addict as she works a news story about a church struggling to purchase a motel for homeless families. 

 When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A High School, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known. 

 5000 Blankets is based on the true story of Cyndi Bunch, whose husband, Phillip Sr., suffered a schizophrenic breakdown two decades ago and ran away to live on the streets. (Phillip Sr. had stopped taking his medication.) At the time, her son Phillip Pruitt was five years old. 

Raised in the church but rejecting the hypocrisy he experienced, Andrew Bryant has built a life of deception and self-reliance. While on the run from a deal gone wrong, Andrew and his wife Denise duck into a church to hide. But they’re mistaken as the guest pastor expected to visit! With the help of the eccentric and often quarrelsome church, Andrew and Denise learn to trust each other and find that the church is a place for people, not perfection. 

Based on a true event about a community that comes together to organize a miracle for a teen battling an aggressive form of brain cancer while two men find their own restoration in his healing journey and a father finds his faith again. 

The true story of a national spiritual awakening in the early 1970's and its origins within a community of teenage hippies in Southern California. 

'Silent Night In Algona' is a character study that takes us inside the dynamics of a small Iowa town from September thru December, 1944 during WW2. 

August Star (Simon Provan) is a Hollywood actor who reluctantly returns to his home town of Owl's Point with his mom and manager Rhonda (Dale Waddington) and friend and director Tony (Ken Williams) to produce a Christmas special. Three years earlier, after the passing of his dad Keeper (David Rupprecht), August escaped Owl's Point with a great deal of unresolved baggage. He now has to come to terms with his relationship with Mandy (Heather Ricks) and her young daughter Olivia (Hannah Frahm). August also finds that a local judge Karl (Daniel Truhitte) holds the ticket to his future. In addition, a local innkeeper Henry (John Morgan) and his son Brad (Michael Oilar) a rising political force in Owl's Point, deliver a missing piece to a long unsolved family puzzle. 

A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.