When documentary filmmaker Penny Lane chose to donate a kidney to a stranger — the dramatic crux of her new “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” — one can’t help but wonder whether the ...

In Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan, a traveler encounters a man beaten by robbers and left for dead by the roadside. Moved with pity, the traveler stopped to help, unlike others who had ...

and “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” continues that trend by unpacking the recent history of bioethics through the story of the director’s own body. It’s a story that Lane naturally tells ...

Would you donate a kidney to a stranger? Early in “Confessions of a Good Samaritan,” the filmmaker Penny Lane (“Hail Satan?”) flips the question around. With so many people in need of ...