The Seeker
Kenneth Copp's search for spiritual truth took him into an Amish community, and the same search eventually took him back out. The film traces his path as a young man raised by parents who had their own complicated religious history, showing what drew him to the discipline and simplicity of Amish life and what, over time, he found missing from it. Interviews and firsthand narration carry the story rather than reenactment or spectacle, focusing on the day-to-day texture of Amish practice, the community's expectations, and the personal doubts that built until Copp chose to leave. The film treats his departure not as a rejection of faith but as a continuation of the same search that brought him in, ending with where that search led him next. At nineteen minutes, it stays close to one man's account rather than surveying Amish life broadly, and its value is in that specificity: a convert's view of a closed community from both sides of the fence.