The Royal Starr Film Festival, an international four day movie gala celebrated in downtown Royal Oak, Michigan, kicks off its sophomore season this October featuring more than 100 screenings of shorts, features, & documentaries. [F-b04-s01]

Gender Equality (Becca Messner / Michigan) The stereotypes we are grown in to might not be fit anymore...

Arrested (Again) (Dan Goldes / United States) A San Francisco activist puts her body on the line for causes she believes in.

Activist Karen Topakian has been arrested dozens of times for using nonviolent civil disobedience to protest nuclear proliferation, human rights abuses, environmental issues, and war. What drives her to repeatedly put her body on the line? In turn lighthearted and moving, Karen's story speaks to the need for Americans, now more than ever, to exercise this important First Amendment right.

A Continuing Series of Small Indignities (Michael Pfaendtner / Michigan) Beginning with the fifth grade, 59-year-old Rodney Harris recounts his personal history dealing with a lifetime of racism.

Hunter House (Travis Boone / Michigan) Consider you suffering. For it is not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in you.

Whether it be a cancer patient traveling to receive treatment, a family traveling for a medical emergency, or a premature birth, Hunter Hospitality House lets people, for free, stay as long as they need in order to be close to the ones they love. A meditative film on the people and stories that built and drive Hunter Hospitality House.