This observational, interactive exhibit explores our relationship with media and challenges how we consume content in a group setting. Prior to the...

This film is a meditation. Using a 16mm intervalometer camera that takes a few frames every few minutes, the artist spent several years tracing the...

(T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of...

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8,500 kilometers lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, Diego only looks at the inaccessible forest from the...

Two filmmakers paid people about $30 to climb to the top of a 10-meter diving tower and stand on the edge. They could decide for themselves whether...

Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank, preserves her story as an interactive hologram that will have conversations with...

Facing a brutal Detroit winter, a willful urban farmer sets out to transform an abandoned house into a greenhouse.

A sociological meditation on the different exits that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.

Through four protagonists aspiring to fulfill their dreams, three contrasting visions of Armenia are sketched out. There’s the lift operator in a...

An intense exploration of composer/performer Ellen Fullman's creative process and mind-blowing sound world.

From an unfamiliar Greek port to the quiet streets of Uppsala, Sweden, a brave three-year-old Syrian refugee makes the long journey through Europe...

Right now, more than 80,000 people in the US are locked in solitary confinement for 22 – 24 hours a day with little to no human contact. We invite...

Henry Bendinelli has been skiing for 70 some years.

On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the...

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A short animation about the potential impact of ocean acidification on sea life in the Gulf of Maine.

The story of a brilliant nuclear physicist, a passionate leftist, and the explosive secret they kept over a remarkable 52-year marriage.

An experiment in documentary and narrative storytelling sheds light on one of Mexico and the world's most controversial institutions, the police...

A crowd of people gathered to see something. Their eyes are busy confirming their beliefs. This film uses a film scanner, but it is not a film. It is...

A scientist says she's found the cure for fear, but what are the ramifications--and is it okay to be erasing human emotions?

Across the racially segregated landscape of St. Louis County, Missouri, thousands of people are routinely sent to jail because they cannot pay local...

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Majaoni Secondary School in Kenya is hosting its annual school elections. Three students compete for the prestigious position of school president:...

A Love Song For Latasha is a spiritual and physical conversation of dreams, memories, and legacy. This short hybrid documentary carefully excavates,...

This documentary short focuses on John Reuter, a Gorham, Maine resident and world-class pinball player. John has slowly built a personal collection...

Reda is 26 years old. His dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh ended in failure after three years trapped in Greece. He...

Produced in collaboration with NYTimes OpDoc, filmmaker Banker White explores how Alzheimer’s disease has revealed the strength of his parents’...

Using time-lapse cinematography, macro lenses, infrared cameras and microscopes, Cheney explores the tiny marvels of the seasons shifting over a...

In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American...

A university student in India writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away. Within her letters, we can see the drastic changes taking place...

As a Cuban family mourning the death of their young son attempt to cling to their traditions and faith, they also question the causes of their rural...

A RIVER BELOW captures the Amazon in all its complexity as it examines the actions of environmental activists using the media in an age where truth...

In 1979, Jimmy Carter, in a visionary move, installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986...

After appearing in the film Rosemary's Baby, by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his family to a distant land, where they shut themselves...

Sundog lives out in the Sonoran Desert near the US-Mexico border. He is an elderly gentleman who lives off anything that the brutal nature gives him,...

A Shared Space is a virtual reality film which tells the story of friends Hilowle and Shuab, who grew up in Dadaab, Kenya– the largest refugee camp...

The mysterious El Cantor is sent by the King of Spain to find the mythological Cities of Cibola amongst the sands of the Rio Grande Valley....

A fight builds between labor unions and residents over a proposed football stadium that would transform New York's West Side.

Oliver White is not your typical fly fisherman. He gravitates towards the furthest reaches of the fly fishing world in search of new species to...

Filmmaker Thorbjorg Jonsdottir met Ayahuasquero Don William in the year 2000 by chance while traveling in the Colombian Amazon. The film serves as...

Determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth, musician, psychiatrist, and folk dancer Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial...

Cosmo, originally from South Sudan seeks help from a childhood friend 'Moon', a poet. Having lived over a decade in Maine, USA, after having to flee...

A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based...

History is a contest. This contemporary re-imagining of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr explores the idea of history as a...

This experiential, atmospheric film drops viewers in amongst the running herds of contemporary Lapland. Leaving the language barrier partially intact...

About John is a visual contemplation driven by the poetry of John Willey, and the richness of his surrounding natural world, which ties together...

Far, far away and completely out of sight, April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the...

256 hours of sound archives recorded during the Rivonia trial (9 months) were recently unearthed and digitised by the Institut National de...

He is black, everything around him is white. A random refugee wanders alone, without purpose or direction, 150 kilometers above the Arctic Circle.

In the aftermath of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman...

Alan Magee: art is not a solace takes the viewer on a breathtaking visual journey—an exploration of the artist’s recurring subjects, locales, and...

ALIVE INSIDE is an exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael...

A portrait of a man, a place and an obsession, becomes more complicated as we delve deeper.

One man is on a quest to save the Presidents of the United States.

Many of us know the freedom of our twenties—unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. ALL THESE...

Ukraine. Winter 2013–2014. What does the fight for freedom look like when you observe it from the epicenter of the battle? What happens when the...

Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at...

The film intends to challenge Africans across the world to reflect on their own lives and revise what ‘they think they know’ about their heritage...

A coming-of-(old)-age story about 83-year-old Peter Anton, an "outsider" artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when...

According to the Library of Congress, around 70 percent of all feature-length films made in the US between 1912 and 1929 no longer exist. In America...

AMERICAN FACTORY takes a deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General...

Explore the fantastic world of Elizabethan England... in a small town in upstate New York. AMERICAN RENAISSANCE is a rollicking journey to one of the...

As clear-cutting continues to ravage California's coastal redwood region, Farmer, an environmental activist, decides to tree sit to defend the McKay...

A portrait of the bucolic lives of a Sicilian family near Agrigento. Underneath the pastoral pleasantries, we soon see the surprises of a rural...

A young Latina filmmaker chronicles the journey of her uncle, a U.S. military vet deported to Mexico, and uncovers her family’s past.

Marble from Carrara has been in demand since the time of Ancient Rome. Used to build everything from bathroom countertops to Michelangelo’s David,...

The Dandora Landfill is the largest of its kind in Kenya. It receives industrial, agricultural, commercial and medical waste, amounting to about...

On April 31, 2016, the largest ivory burn in history took place in Nairobi National Park. Eleven pyres comprised of 105 tonnes of confiscated...

A documentary made for the purpose of opening a national film and television audience to the lively possibilities of the word "art." With Leonard...

A clan of women passes down the art of dancing from generation to generation.

A new recruit arrives at a remote base on the Arctic Ocean.

Ten years ago, Pastor Richard Gazowsky received a directive from God to make movies and transformed his church into a movie studio. After several...

From acclaimed director Steve James, ABACUS tells the incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of...

Filmmaker Jenny Abel explores the life and career of her father, Alan Abel, the infamous prankster who has pricked the pomposity of the media and...

In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grandchild and all the joys of becoming a grandmother, unaware...

Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO’s “The Wire” when she gave up her career to start a family. When she decides to reclaim her life as an...

Comprised of Hi8 videos, ADOLESCENCIA presents a portrait of a teenage boy in 2002 Puerto Rico who films odd and unusual movie vignettes by himself -...

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After Antarctica follows legendary polar explorer Will Steger’s lifelong journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes to the polar regions of...

How is home defined within the context of displacement? Through a conversation with the filmmaker’s father, archival material, and the crisp...

In this walk-around VR experience, FRONTLINE and Emblematic Group take you inside a 13x7 solitary cell in Maine State Prison. Kenneth Moore, spent 20...

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The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music - captured in the performances of Mexican band Los Tigres Del Norte and the late Chalino Sanchez -...

Best known for his captivating and beautiful realist paintings, artist Alan Magee also creates works that delve into the the most sober aspects of...

Alison McKellar talks about the non-profit organization NuDay Syria she volunteers for and constructs one of her shelters. We also meet Nadia Alawa,...

In one of the world’s most populated cities, cows, rats, monkeys, frogs, and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people. Here, two brothers fall in love...

Across the Caucasus, Azerbaijani men labor to build a new railroad promising to bring glory to a new generation, while across the closed borders in...

On Chicago's South and West sides, gun violence destroys lives. Two men dedicate their lives to educating, empowering and healing young Black men at...

On March 11, 2011 the largest earthquake in modern history hit Japan. Thirty minutes later, dark tsunami waves roared in over the coast of...

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Alleluia Junction highlights a Trans-Siberian experience by following a Maine chorus’ journey through Russia.

América is a story of brothers confronting the chasm between adolescent yearning and adult realities when brought together to care for their ailing...

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A New York City theater teacher faces personal and professional challenges when he includes a young boy from a homeless shelter in his new play for...

Somewhere off the coast of Maine there is an island that has been owned by the same family for over 300 years. They are private people who make their...

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Angels Are Made Of Light reveals the daily struggles and inner lives of students and teachers at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan during the closing...

Part lyrical document, part farce, Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations on the Dreamlife of Beasts explores the imagined unconscious minds of...

Have you ever heard of the Republic of Kiribati?With almost no environmental footprint, this Pacific Island nation is one of the most remoteplaces on...

17-year-old Khaldiya meditates on how the refugee camp has opened up new horizons and given her a sense of courage that she lacked in Syria.

A tale about a usurped nation, about a forgotten genocide, about globalization, about one river.

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It is year one at Little Falls, New Jersey’s Teddy McArdle Free School, where classes are voluntary and rules are created by democratic vote....

A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks. Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during...

Based on a true story of "invented islands," Archipelago uses drawings and speeches to antagonize what is real, dreamed or in-between. Venturing into...

Rich in stunning verite footage shot in the remote Canadian arctic, Arctic Son chronicles the story of a father and son who reunite after living...

a poetic meditation on Tuktoyaktuk, an Indigenous community in the Arctic.

Considered one of the most prolific art forgers in US history, Mark Landis was never in it for the money, choosing instead to give away hundreds of...

An exploration of the pursuit of wealth and the paradox of progress in modern China, Ascension examines what living the so-called “Chinese Dream”...

A story about Ashley Bryan, a 93 year old artist, poet/illustrator of 50+ children’s books, maker of magical puppets and sea glass windows from...

During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world...

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In 2000, Slavik Kryklyvyy became the World Latin Dance Champion with his partner and lover Joanna Leunis. Success seemed assured, but instead his...

Beauty of the Fight explores, with both intimate and exhilarating imagery, the effects of historic realities on two Panama barrios. Barraza and El...

Fourteen-year-old Nego and fifteen-year-old Cocada meet every day at a petrol station near their favela in a poor quarter of the Brazilian megacity...

After the death of his mother, Morgan Talty, an author and citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation returns home to a house that may or may not be...

In a celebration of outcasts everywhere, a precocious young blind woman from Maine disappears into quirky obsessions and isolation. With humor and...

BEST OF ENEMIES is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley...

Better This World follows the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23) from political neophytes to accused domestic terrorists with a...

On the 200th anniversary of Simon Bolivar’s liberation journey across Colombia, Bicentenario reflects on the far-reaching consequences of the...

Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square is flooded. Its infrastructure has merged with the local fauna; mature trees grow through cracks in the sidewalks...

Following the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Venice, Louisiana, Blue Meridian is a captivating journey through the dilapidated and worn...

Ian Cheney’s film explores the terraforming of Mars and the waterways of New York City. As scientists unlock strategies for warming and colonizing...

BODY TEAM 12 is tasked with collecting the victims at the height of the Ebola outbreak. These body collectors have arguably the most dangerous and...

Bombay Beach was once the destination of choice for the rich and famous; a glitzy holiday playground on shores of the massive Salton Sea lake in...

The modern world is constantly speeding up. But not for the Dull Men's Club - a group of men quite content with life's more sedate pleasures. This...

In this short, produced and filmed during the winter of 2013, Belfast filmmaker Wes Sterrs profiles Maine artist Eric Leppanen and his process of...

Chronicling the break-out year of the band Unlocking the Truth, the film follows 13-year-old members Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse, and Jarad...

Brendan O'Connell had been painting everyday moments when someone suggested he follow one person out into the world. This journey quickly led him to...

A study of the confluences of monotony, choreography, and spectacle in labor, BRIDGE TENDER is an opening and closing sequence of Maine’s last...

BROTHERS is the story of Markus and Lukas, sons of documentary filmmaker Aslaug Holm. She has filmed her two boys over an eight year period, from...

An experimental exploration and celebration of the Juggalo subculture in Buffalo, New York. Long and static takes of Juggalos engaged in their...

The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and...

A look at a young man experiencing a summer impasse after moving back in with his parents.

A 90 year old Jewish woman reflects on her life’s experiences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time.

Cleveland attempts to overcome its nickname "The Mistake by the Lake", by launching a bunch of balloons.

Dr. Lynn Rogers is a biologist who began studying black bears in the North Woods of Minnesota in the late ’60s. Early on, he developed an entirely...

Grief does not belong just to adults. In this film about loss, children are able to express what hurts and what helps them recover.

Examining the epic life of Jacques Cousteau, the ocean explorer who would forever change the way we see and know the undersea world.

The ‘60s environmental movement inspired scientists like E.O. Wilson, Cal DeWitt, and Theo Colborn, some of whom were raised within America’s...

BENDING STEEL is a moving documentary which follows Chris Schoeck, an endearing yet unassuming man as he trains to become a professional oldetime...

BETTING THE FARM is the story of a group of Maine dairy farmers who, dropped by their national milk company, are suddenly confronted with the real...

In Ghana, a small American energy company fights to hold onto its discovery of oil just as a new government comes into power.With unprecedented...

From an isolated cabin, a trans man star gazes, scruff chats, watches youtube tutorials, takes drugs, and lies about taking drugs - feeling his way...

Providing poignant glimpses into an artists’ life, as well as the nature of obsession, BIRD CARVER shows us how time can be purposefully,...

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A family of Ponderai Native Americans embark on a controversial journey through Yellowstone to exercise their treaty hunting rights, and experience...

An archival social study examining white pathology and cognitive dissonance via media coverage of a 1969 racial protest.

In September 2015, the State of Alabama closed 31 DMVs, which largely impacted voters in Alabama's Black Belt. To combat these closures, the...

Cornelius' family left London following a child's killing. BLACK SHEEP describes the chilling racist violence he subsequently faced and the extreme...

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"Bloodless" is a ten-minute VR film that deals with camp town sex workers for US army stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. The film traces the...

Within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted.

After a decade of stardom in Israel, American dancer Bobbi Jene leaves behind her prominent position at the world-famous Batsheva Dance Company, as...

Uncle and Nephew and next door neighbors, Bobby and Sonny Warren recollect a lifetime at sea, fishing for lobsters off the remote island of...

In 1875, the Horn Silver Mine was discovered in the red rock cliffs of southwestern Utah. The town of Frisco was born and quickly became one of the...

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers...

When a Haitian voodoo priestess, a Mambo, dies, it is up to the children to celebrate the deity she served. It’s time for my mother to come home to...

Amply substantiated and illustrated indictment of the hypocrisy and power politics of the United States, which invaded Iraq by bringing fallacies and...

Over the course of four seasons, the nuances of everyday activity are closely examined along one narrow stretch of public shoreline in New York...

Ayed Morrar, an unlikely community organizer, unites Palestinians from all political factions and Israelis to save his village from destruction by...

Bugarach is a tiny village in southern France where everyone lives a quiet life, isolated from the world—until the day the international media...

Bulletproof explores the complexities of violence in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. The film observes the longstanding...

A python slithers and curls over the abandoned control room of Chernobyl’s sister, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, its radioactive core an...

Once used for drinking water and small boat transport, the Buriganga River is now a hotbed of activity, commerce, and pollution. Beautifully shot and...

In the Mexican village of Milpillas, deteriorating economic and social conditions have led to a wave of suicides among its young people. The...

What does it mean to film another person? How does it affect that person - and what does it do to the one who films? A boxing match in Brooklyn; life...

In a small town in Veracruz, Canícula is the hottest time of the year. This film provides a series of moments: an awkward first dance, a lonely wash...

Documentary filmmaker Alison Murray follows the unconventional lives of carnival workers as they travel from fairground to fairground across the...

Mr. Lee, an adopted stray cat, routinely disappeared from his South Carolina home for days on end. Intrigued by Mr. Lee’s whereabouts, his owner...

The city of Ordos was planned and built for approximately 2 million people in the Chinese province of inner Mongolia, yet the city remains mostly...

Catnip is all the rage with today's modern feline, but do we really understand it? This film frankly discusses the facts about this controversial...

From the high of an extraordinary runway show celebrating France’s 1998 World Cup win to fittings with his muse and friend Laetitia Casta, Olivier...

Highlights the human cost of operating a struggling farm and ponders the fate of the local food and farmland if small-scale family farms cannot...

Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovered...

The story of Chelsea Manning, not as a Wikileaks 'hacktivist', but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and...

A day in the life of three kids living on the streets of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

CHOREOGRAPHY explores the curiosities of waiting, moving, hearing, and seeing inside contained spaces that eventually open. The act of looking is...

A lyrical portrait of two young Haitian migrants stranded on the US-Mexico border. The quiet, unexpected tenderness of their friendship shines in the...

For over 35 years, the gay porn shop, Circus of Books, served as the epicenter for LGBT life and culture in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to many in the...

“Citizen K” looks at power in Russia. When Mikhail Khodorkovsky rises from a young communist to become the richest man in Russia, he confronts...

Citizens of the Cosmos is a new film by Anton Vidokle based on the manifesto of Biocosmism, written by Alexander Svyatogor in 1922. Shot on locations...

CITY HALL, by Frederick Wiseman, shows the efforts by Boston city government to provide services. The film illustrates ways the city administration...

In CLAUDE LANZMANN: SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH, the late French iconoclast discusses the trials and tribulations he faced creating his 1985 magnum opus,...

Coby Yee, a 92 year old retired nightclub dancer and icon from San Francisco Chinatown, and Stephen King, an experimental filmmaker 20 years her...

Fernando's life in Stockholm seems to be going nowhere. He is struggling with substance abuse and his despairing mother, Olga, wants him to go and...

Directed by the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Robert Kenner and based on the critically acclaimed book of the same name by Eric Schlosser,...

Set in the largest wholesale consumer market, this film explores moments of tension between commerce and individuality, between the goods for sale...

CONSTRAINTS is the story of a former model whose portrait is used to explore notions of exploitation vs. empowerment. While visualizing the tenuous...

Ten of the country’s elite color guard teams—the flag-flipping, sequin-studded crème de la crème of the “sport of the arts”—sync steps...

A personal essay film reflecting on the relationships between the Anthropocene, poetry, parenthood, and the history of Alan Moore's 1980's run on the...

An unprecedented, all-access view of the work done by the people of Denver in hosting the 2008 Democratic National Convention shot by an all-star...

One eccentric family transforms a vacant monastery into a creative haven for their artistic endeavours. The home and its surroundings serve as the...

A single cartridge of Super 8 captures my mothers last visit to her garden. Her body is seen slowly dissolving towards illumination, while her image...

Although Alexis has a life-threatening disease, she provides palliative care for animals. Crannog follows Alexis as she tirelessly tries to nurse a...

After announcing his candidacy for president, George W. Bush moves to the Prairie Chapel Ranch near the small town of Crawford, TX. This documentary...

Veteran filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's documentary takes an unflinching look inside Paris's `Crazy Horse', a club famous around the world for its...

Selected scene from a work-in-progress, Criminal, following one family’s journey through America’s criminal justice system. The film offers a...

Kinder Surprise eggs are enormously popular all around the world. From the foil wrapper to the chocolate shell, the plastic yolk capsule to the...

First-time director Noah Hutton captures the change in Stanley, North Dakota, after a historic 2006 oil discovery. Crude Independence is a rumination...

Half tongue-in-cheek absurdism and half deadly earnest, CULTURE CAPTURE: TERMINAL ADDITION continues the New Red Order’s ongoing project of...

After finding the video material from her childhood, Bárbara reprograms her mythology as an infant and reflects on her body traversed by affections,...

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay man, and retired Anglican Bishop...

Canvasman is a portrait of a man who is less concerned with doing what is expected of him than he is with living a life that is fueled by passion and...

Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle tells the surreal, fascinating, and tragicomic story of the battle over America's most controversial clean...

An aging congregation clings on to a run-down Church in Glasgow. With line-dancing and yoga on one side and solemn worship on the other, the...

CAUCUS tells the story of the 2011-2012 campaign in Iowa as eight Republicans fight to become their party’s standard-bearer and take on Barack...

A poetic and textured film that follows four children as they experience the natural cycle of life on a farm, learning the profession of their...

This remarkably sobering VR is the powerful result of Jeff Orlowski’s project of the same name in documentary competition, about the quest of a...

A typical 'chips and liver girl' navigates full-speed among their friends, their boyfriends, and the elderly men who pay for their studies and a...

“Eagle Bone" ("Ch'aak' S'aagi") is a collective step in a new direction of visual storytelling rooted in being unapologetically Indigenous. Through...

CIRCLE is a haunting portrait of a rape survivor, caught in the devious ploys of her grandmother, who orchestrated the ordeal.

Filmed along the back roads of rural Mexico, Circo follows the Ponce family’s hardscrabble circus as it struggles to stay together. Through an...

Using a technique of apparent explosive disorder, CITADEL captures the disturbing and mysterious place of the male prison in La Paz, Bolivia. The...

A champion athlete and the defining moments that lead to his activism in pursuit of social justice for all.

In the five-part documentary series CITY SO REAL, Oscar®-nominated documentarian Steve James (America to Me, Hoop Dreams) delivers a fascinating and...

CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1) is the first installment in a five-part project of experimental and hybrid-form short films contemplating a...

In 1959, Philomath High School established a scholarship fund that used timber profits to send graduates to Oregon State University. When founder Ray...

Born in exile in Kazakhstan, Zainap Gashsaeva, a Chechen businesswoman who has raised four children, in 1994 began documenting the atrocious human...

Filmed in Bolivia — including inside the notorious San Sebastian prison — over five years, COCAINE PRISON provides a ground-level view of the...

At a time when the world is rethinking its drug policies, one state rises to the forefront of attention. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical...

On the front line of the Syrian war, 30-year-old Commander Arian guides a female battalion towards the city of Kobane to release its people from the...

COMMON CARRIER is a small attempt to interpret what it means to create (and be created and alive) in the year 2016. The movie tracks a small network...

‘Common Ground’ is a multi-layered immersive journey into the history, politics and human face of the current crisis in the UK housing system....

Communion Los Angeles explores California’s oldest freeway as it courses from the mountains to the ocean, defining and dividing the communities it...

It’s been widely reported that Detroit is making a comeback, but long-term residents of Detroit’s mostly black neighborhoods aren’t seeing much...

The composite sketch is an act of translation between face, memory & language. When we picture someone we love, what exactly is it that we see?

Punctuated by the late Arab Spring, the Black Lives Matter revolts of 2020, and the Beirut port explosion, the film weaves through transhistorical...

"Constant" is a journey through the social and political histories of measurement. For most of recorded history, the human body was the measure of...

Can we contain some of the deadliest, most long-lasting substances ever produced? Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of...

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In the heart of the beltway rests a one-acre piece of farmland under the care of 89-year-old Charlie Koiner. With the help of his only daughter,...

Every year since 1985, cowboys have gathered at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering to share their heartfelt poems. This unlikely Western is a...

COYOLXAUHQUI recasts the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess Coyolxauhqui by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, the Sun and...

Snowboard legend Kevin Pearce crashed on a Park City half-pipe, and ended up fighting for his life. Now all Kevin wants to do is get on his snowboard...

A boy uses his camera to explore the meaning of home, community and family.

For over a thousand years, a secretive Buddhist sect has lived on Mount Hiei, Japan performing acts of extreme physical endurance in their pursuit of...

In a small military town in Texas, three wild-spirited teenage girls live out a fever-dream summer. Through their characters, photographers and debut...

A reflection on love, sacrifice, and the creative spirit, this candid New York tale explores the chaotic forty year marriage of famed boxing painter...

Robotic surgery department. A surgeon performs an entire operation, controlling the robot's motions using a joystick.

This film follows David Driskell, an esteemed artist and leading authority on African American art. Based in Falmouth, Maine, this film details the...

A story of stolen children and cultural survival: inside the first truth and reconciliation commission for Native Americans.

The freighter Fair Lady crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the...

At age two Georgina Sappier-Richardson was removed from her home and Passamaquoddy community in downeast Maine by child protection services. She...

Three young adults in South Africa take their government to court to save their shantytown from destruction.

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Turner Cody is a prolific songwriter in the American tradition based out of New York City. In this experience he performs a popup rendition of 'Deep...

Two political opponents are appointed to write Zimbabwe's new constitution, the ultimate test that could bring an end to President Mugabe's thirty...

There’s no easy way to say goodbye to your best friend. Especially if that best friend stuck by your side during the darkest time in your life....

Covered in grease, sandwich in hand, he has been in his shop all night building a machine. Tearing wires, welding copper to steel, replacing logic...

Born in 1924 Mr. Shay has led a remarkable life. He is a Penobscot tribal elder, writer, and decorated veteran of both World War II and the Korean...

Diving for Scallops is a portrait of James Sewell, a scallop fisherman in coastal Maine. Despite an accident that threatened his livelihood, Sewell...

In the Hauts de Mayotte (The Comoro Islands), a secret space, of magic and escape, men and dogs, maintain filial almost intertwined relationships,...

The urgent DO NOT RESIST tells the blood-boiling story of how good old American technology is making our streets look more like Fallujah. The film...

Donor Unknown follows the story of JoEllen Marsh as she goes in search of the sperm donor father she only knows as Donor 150. After tracking down a...

DOWNEAST is an experiential story that unfolds over the course of a year-and-a-half in the small lobstering village of Prospect Harbor, Maine. It...

A family in Nepal living on less than a dollar a day wins the globalization jackpot: a charity scholarship for their daughter to go to school in the...

Dreams of the Jaguar's Daughter is a three-part Surreal VR Documentary where Achik', the spirit of a young Mayan immigrant, guides viewers through...

DRIVER immerses us in a vital community of women truck drivers.

In tiny bunkers across the United States, young pilots are operating unmanned drones targeting “bad people” in Pakistan. Recruited at video game...

DROUGHT is an impressionistic portrait of the Cuates de Australia, a communally-owned land in northeastern Mexico, where desert cowboys face death...

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In July, 2020, three year old Ayaad became the sole witness of an incident which resulted in the shooting of his grandfather by the Jammu and Kashmir...

DARKON covers an epic war raging through the realm of Darkon (an American LARP based outside of Baltimore). Skip Lipman, a suburban stay-at-home dad...

The Nile Perch is a voracious predator who was introduced into Lake Victoria in the 1960’s. The new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets...

A farmer discovers a fallen meteorite in the high Chihuahuan deserts. The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly...

Filmmaker David Sieveking follows the advice of David Lynch, his professional idol, and submits himself to a transcendental meditation course after...

A portrait of a young classically trained vocalist pursuing his passion for musical theater on a miniature stage using action figures as performers.

The whistle blows, the paddle starts rolling, and the century-old boat starts from the bustling harbor of the capital Dhaka to the remote coastal...

Bob Wagg and Walter Lane live in a tarpaper shack, hunting, fishing, trapping and logging with oxen. They prefer the sounds of the birds to the roar...

DEERFOOT OF THE DIAMOND is a mixed-format documentary collage about the career and legacy of Louis Sockalexis, the first Native American to play...

Deprogrammed takes the user on a virtual walk through the world of cult indoctrination. Told through the voices of three characters, DEPROGRAMMED,...

Documentary filmmaker Margaret Brown (“The Order of Myths", “The Great Invisible”) returns to her hometown of Mobile, Alabama to document the...

The American West. A world where human life seems to be impossible. An arid, mythical landscape characterized by the absence of water. But traces...

Some strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert. Residents tell us what they’ve seen: fire, a fireball, lights flying, lightning falling...

The steam whistle blows, the paddle starts rolling and the century-old boat starts from the bustling harbor of capital Dhaka to the remote coastal...

A deeply compelling investigation into the phenomenon of Mexico’s “disappeared” from the perspectives of those bereaved by, and those...

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Alabama, 1946. S.E. Branch, the filmmaker’s great-grandfather, murdered Bill Spann, a black man. The murder has become hidden family lore and when...

An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Cleo Keahna recounts his experiences entering, being at, and leaving the camp...

Produced by CFC Media Lab and directed by award-winning animator and filmmaker Justin Stephenson Distributed: A Beginning features Douglas Rushkoff,...

An “origin story”—the story of our current moment in American life — told through the triumph and downfall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes.

“Burned, beaten, abandoned, donkeys look back at us humans with indifference, and bray.” Filmed over 5 years, DO DONKEY’S ACT? subtly subverts...

This documentary follows reporter Geoff Edgers as he embarks on a quixotic journey to reunite legendary English rockers the Kinks, even though they...

"The block of marble is the most beautiful of all statues" - Carlo Mollino This is the story of the godlike architect, Carlo Mollino, animated within...

"Don't Fence Me In: Major Mary and the Karen Refugees from Burma" is the compelling story of the Karen refugees from Burma. The film chronicles the...

Fifty-year-old María García is the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat and the final hold-over from...

Winner of the SXSW Jury Award for Best Documentary and the Hot Docs Jury Award for Best International Feature, Tristan Patterson's "Dragonslayer" is...

Dreamland is a film about a nation standing at cross-roads. Leading up to the country's greatest economic crisis, the government started the largest...

In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter to swim so she may harvest the piangua shellfish in the mangroves with other women.

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E-TEAM offers a rare look at the lives and high-stakes investigative work of four intrepid human rights workers—Anna, Ole, Fred, and...

A sprawling meditation on the choreography of bodies in Moscow’s urban landscape, DETOURS depicts a new way of dealing illicit drugs via the...

In a Vancouver pharmacy, patients arrive for their dose of methadone, to be taken in front of the pharmacist. Over-the-shoulder shots forcefully...

Some ambulance workers in Monrovia have been infected with Ebola, while others have been attacked for not getting to patients in time. This short is...

Through a small window of time and space, Edgecombe, presents the numerous ways Black folks overcome across generations. Through the lives of Shaka...

El padre medico is a stirring investigation into the mysterious figure of Padre Bendoraitis, a Lithuanian priest who migrated to the Amazon Jungle...

Esther and her brother Pedro, a farmer defending his identity, live in El Remolino, a small community on the banks of the Usumacinta River, in...

Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph...

ELVERS is a short documentary about the freshwater eel industry in Maine and an unexpected gold rush that hit the shores in 2012.

n the Bay Area, the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, along with sister networks across California, serves as the front line of the local fight...

Our time here is esoteric, limited and intangible. The fragility which exists in all aspects of life is one thing that is certain. We are brittle,...

EARTH was filmed at seven locations that humans have transformed on a grand scale: Entire mountains being moved in California, a tunnel being sliced...

A glimpse into the life of a Brooklyn cab driver as he moves through one season of his life.

In a small village of the North of France, an attack alert has been set off due to the combination of two events: the beginning of the dove hunting...

Like many veterans, US Marine Roman Baca wasn’t the same when he returned home from war. He served in Fallujah, Iraq from 2005 to 2006. His...

The Apollo 8 astronauts recount the beauty, awe, and grandeur of the Earth against the blackness of space.

Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel lets users step into the memories of Willie McNeive and journey back in time to a moment that changed Irish history...

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Kafia, a young girl on the brink of adulthood, has to leave behind a lot of what defined her Somalian life as she tries to adapt to her new existence...

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Oscillating between recorded voice messages and stacked photographs, Echolocation is a layered experiment exploring existence in the aftermath of...

Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their love story is disrupted by a family feud that threatens to tear...

The sun beats down mercilessly on all those who cross the Sonoran Desert between Mexico and the United States. Their traces and remains accumulate,...

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her seven year old sister named Petra. Two decades...

The capital city of Kinshasa is rebuilding. Through the eyes of three civil workers struggling to reconstruct the foundation of the city's public...

Born in Brazil, educated in France, Sergio Vieira de Mello tackles some of the past century's most challenging humanitarian and peacekeeping efforts...

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A look at the life and work of guitarist Eric Clapton told by those who have known him best, including BB King, Jimi Hendrix, and George Harrison....

Plagued by anxiety about climate change, a filmmaker decides to start seeing a climate psychologist, hoping to find peace of mind at what she’s...

An urgent and visceral work of “archival vérité," Evidence of the Evidence chronicles the infamous Attica prison uprising.

A rare invitation into the world of a young artist dying of cystic fibrosis as he and his family navigate the ominous, sacred, and unmapped journey...

Constructed from audio archive of the 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition into Netherlands, New Guinea, EXPEDITION CONTENT reflects on the colonial...

An adventurous journey of discovery to the last uncharted areas of the globe. On a three-mast schooner packed with artists, scientists and ambitions...

A purely observational documentary that plunges viewers into the harrowing decision-making process faced by physicians, patients and families in...

An exploration into the lives of a group of independent professional wrestlers in North Carolina. Filmed over the course of a week leading up to a...

Farm is the simple story of a wandering spirit enjoying her time in nature. Combining precise sound effects with a lyrical voiceover, this...

“FATHERS” is a powerful poetic film that interrogates and challenges stereotypes surrounding the role of the black father in modern society. The...

In 1939, 12-year-old Donn Fendler was lost for 9 days in the woods of Maine near Mount Katahdin. His story of survival inspired the nation and his...

With gritty style and a witty sense of humor, New York photographer Flo Fox has been documenting the streets of New York City since the 1970s. Now in...

A mysterious tree watches over a forest while humans traverse its paths, planning construction zones and searching for a lost person. As civilization...

The dream: To be free--free from bosses, rent, and red tape. In 1960 Bob and Nancy Griffith set out on their 53-foot sailboat to chase that dream,...

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells...

After decades of war and an oppressive Taliban regime, four Afghan photojournalists face the realities of building a free press in a country left to...

With her own wedding just around the corner, filmmaker Sharon Shattuck returns to her small Midwestern hometown to examine the mystery at the heart...

Full Battle Rattle is a revelatory look at the soul of the American war machine - an astonishing journey into a once top-secret military base where...

Recollections of youth, learning, and lore create an imagined myth for the Indian Pipe Plant, Xąwįska, used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who...

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Two marine biologists seek meaning in the beautifully haunting sounds of whales

Through literature and myth, characters from the Faust legend intermingle with the inhabitants on the Oaxacan coast, while attempting to control...

A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar and immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious...

A chaotic moment in a family gathering of a woman with children and an unexpected passenger with his dog.

Charging scenes of the present with dystopian speculation, Field Resistance teases the boundaries between documentary and science fiction to...

FIGURE is a surreal tale about creating myths, about religious kitsch, and about the desire for greatness. Who is our protagonist? The world's...

Night, like mourning, remakes space through absence: forms at the threshold of perception heighten sound and touch. When someone dies there is a pull...

Inspired by the image of the sea on fire, this dream explores absences, marks on the body and the construction of masculinity of oil and gas workers...

The geography of Brownsville, Brooklyn is divided by an ongoing rivalry between public housing developments. In this virtual reality documentary,...

For centuries, the United States government has taken Native American children away from their tribes, devastating parents and denying children their...

In 12 weeks, young civilians are gradually moulded into Canadian Armed Forces soldiers, and must adapt to a world governed by its own rules and...

A search for the truth behind a fishy tale.

The film follows Amin, on the verge of marrying his husband shares his story for the first time about his hidden past of fleeing his country as a...

Florence, Arizona is a cowboy town with a prison problem. It is home to 8,500 civilians and 17,000 inmates spread over nine prisons. Through an...

For the Love of Rutland explores the complex life of a blue-collar Vermont town as a partial microcosm/mirror of our current national and global...

Elderly Palestinians are caught between their right to forage their own land and the harsh restrictions imposed by their occupiers on the basis of...

As American manufacturing has diminished, one industrial outpost in Ohio roars on. Alone in a huge, dark foundry, two men work at night to forge the...

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With no ropes or safety gear, Alex Honnold becomes the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000ft high El Capitan Wall, arguably the...

Each year, hundreds of airplanes reach the end of their lives and are crushed for scrap metal. At a facility in Arizona, a group of “undertakers”...

Filmed over the course of four years, Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys growing up in Egypt's garbage village.

When a teenager in the Philippines is accused of double murder, the country’s judicial system is put to the test after years of alleged corruption.

Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney turns his gaze to Scientology in GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF, based on the book by...

Goodbye Thelma synthesizes original footage with footage from the 1991 film Thelma & Louise in this exploration of traveling as a woman alone.

The 2009 season for the Goranson Farm in Maine began like most: full of hope for the coming year. But then June turned into the wettest on record,...

Just below the surface of one of the most contaminated urban waterways in the United States, microrganisms thrive amidst the toxic waste.

A world all on its own of humour, warmth and love: Between a boy and his bedridden grandfather there is deep friendship. The aging man has a secret...

On November 3rd, 1979, five members of the Communist Workers Party were gunned down by members of the Klu Klux Klan during an anti-Klan rally in...

With no special skill or expertise to speak of, Greg Packer has appeared in the media nearly 1,000 times. Since his first publication byline in 1995,...

They belong to the armed wing of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which is also an active guerrilla movement. The mission of these female...

In oceanography, gyres (gyros, Greek: a circle, a ring) are a combination of winds and currents that produce orbital patterns in the ocean. Debris is...

One sunny afternoon in the middle west, suspended in a time between, two commuters daydream about a life lived otherwise.

Patrolling a popular tourist destination of steep cliffs that plummet into the Sea of Japan, a retired police officer vigilantly intercepts troubled...

Gather follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to re connect with spiritual and cultural identities that were...

Geographies of Solitude is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist who has lived over 40 years...

Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two...

The post-truth era Internet: a mesmerizing echo chamber in which everything – from shopping lists to intimate outpourings, conspiracy theories to...

Gold is a commodity that thrives in uncertain economic climates, and rising gold prices over the past few years have created a boom industry around...

Edgar Gatto can't leave the neighborhood he loves to hate. This short documentary is a portrait of a man full of contradictions. The film is set...

In an historically Black neighborhood of Cincinnati, a family closes shop as new residents roll in on their Segways and craft beer carts.

Takes us on a journey through night, space, and time. Four protagonists from four different continents share the same handicap: they can't sleep.

In this cutting-edge VR experience, travel to a place where the glaciers are melting faster and faster and NASA went to find out why. FRONTLINE and...

With visual precision and attention to detail, director Mikel Cee Karlsson captures people and their existence in a small village deep inside the...

The Amazon is burning. Decades of environmental protections in Brazil have been undone and ecological devastation has accelerated at an unimaginable...

A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may...

GUIDED profiles the gentle spirit of legendary Maine wilderness guide Ray Reitze as he passes on his legacy to the next generation of guides while...

GUIDELINES is a series of tableaux illustrating the occasionally trying existence of young people at a rural secondary school. Emphasizing the...

Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful...

A surprisingly non-fictional tragicomedy about how America traces a gun involved in a gun crime back to its owner.

On July 12th 1969, during the bull run of San Fermín, a bull killed H by goring him in the heart. Today the ghosts of H drink, laugh and dance in...

Multiple layers of fabrication and imposition are laid bare by this fluidly choreographed, single-shot embodiment of control. While portraying sound...

Peyangki is a dreamy and solitary eight-year-old monk living in Laya, a Bhutanese village perched high in the Himalayas. Soon, the world will come to...

Filmed over the course of the year after the arrest of Penn State football team’s assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, HAPPY VALLEY chronicles the...

HARDWATER chronicles quintessential Mainer, Bob Foster, the last in a dying breed of winter anglers. The 77-year-old Foster paints a picture of...

A Mainer whose livelihood was once anchored in fishing and antiques, Brian White is now an artist involved in the difficult business of representing...

American artist Andrew Wyeth secretly made over 240 drawings and paintings of one model between 1971 and 1985. The secret was kept even from his...

Helvetica is a cinematic exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers...

HERETIX: UP AND RUNNING joins Camden and Boston-based alternative rock band Heretix as they reunite for their first show in nearly 20 years. Through...

The injustice of solitary confinement and the transformative power of art are explored in HERMAN’S HOUSE, a feature documentary that follows the...

This short documentary profiles two elderly Holocaust survivors in Florida who recently formed their own klezmer band.

We often think of houses as solid, strong, permanent things. In fact they can be weak, fragile and, as this film shows, mobile. What is it that makes...

Gladys is an undocumented immigrant living in LA. She hasn’t returned to her native Peru in 22 years and cannot visit her dying mother, América,...

Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless. This film captures one dramatic...

In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone. Their protest captured the world’s imagination. Using never before seen archive that...

Intimate and unencumbered moments of a community trumpet the beauty of life, the consequences of the social construction of race, and a testament to...

Alligator wrestling is a staple of Florida tourism that began as a means of survival by the Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes of Florida. Allaptah...

In a room the size of a cell, protestors recount their experience of incarceration after the 2020 Belarussian Presidential Election.

HARLAN COUNTY, USA is an Oscar-winning documentary film covering the “Brookside Strike,” an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the...

Peter Davis’s Oscar-winning documentary unflinchingly confronts the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources—from...

An award winning documentary about the godfather of bioart who sends vaginal contractions into deep-space to communicate with aliens; encodes Greek...

In 2009, U.S. Marines launch a major helicopter assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Within hours of being dropped deep behind...

HERBARIA reveals the woven relationship between preserving plants, films, and memories, inviting the audience to consider the process and purpose of...

Testimony about a shepherd’s encounter at the Turkish-Armenian border provides a haunting perspective on the countries’ physical and invisible...

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Once a bustling industrial town, Huntington, West Virginia has become the epicenter of America’s modern opioid epidemic, with an overdose rate 10...

Alternative Education track students from a local Maine school system find a love for the hands-on education by running a working oyster farm as part...

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The demolition derby is one of Maine’s most cherished summer events, and the crown jewel of the annual Union Fair. Who is behind the wheel of the...

Frank Heath’s “The Hollow Coin” explores roles of authority in public space and the intersection of personal and historical narratives. The...

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Hillbillies haven’t died off; they’ve simply become neo-hillbillies. Three families of musicians in the Ozark Mountains of Southwestern Missouri...

A ten meter diving tower. People who have never been up there before have to choose whether to jump or climb down. An entertaining study of the human...

HOUSE IN THE FIELDS examines the life of an isolated rural Amazigh community in the south- west region of the High Atlas Mountains. A portrait of a...

Suddenly allergic to light at 53, John Kapellas (now 63) has spent the last decade constructing a life in darkness after a lifetime of cavorting in...

Visitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland. The locals grow restless - things are changing, secret berry spots are...

HOW TO MAKE A RAINBOW observes a young girl (Alaizah) and her mother (Jade) over two years as they journey through the realities of a parent in...

Huldufólk 102 is about the cultural phenomenon of the Huldufólk, mystical beings traditionally believed by many Icelanders to inhabit a parallel...

Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and...

Há terra! is an encounter, a hunt, a diachronic tale of looking and becoming. As in a game, as in a chase, the film errs between character and land,...

While tens of thousands protested in Cairo, poor villagers in the country’s south followed the tense situation in Tahrir Square on their television...

The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish...

In 2005, an unknown Irish boxer beat Mike Tyson in front of hundreds of thousands of people. Then he disappeared. Filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein...

When a circus tent goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on spectacle, (in)visibility,...

What cures women of sexual promiscuity?

Intensely regretting his decision to sign a petition, a Palestinian man calls his friend for reassurance.

More men have walked on the moon than been Ronald McDonald. Joe Maggard was McDonald's mascot from 1995 to 2007. He was eighth of nine men to have...

A poetic meditation on familial loss and separation, and the love that endures against dispersion. Kae repurposes materials sourced online and pairs...

Reconstructing one last encounter with Dad.

I’m Free Now, You Are Free is a short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly...

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A ferry makes its way through the ice floating in the freezing Baltic Sea. Yet the ice has long since broken inside the ship thanks to the evening's...

If you ask middle-class, white, suburban South African whether her nanny has running water in her home, she most likely won’t know. Twenty-four...

Set in Kerala, India, In The Wake reveals the weaving community as a place of abundant beauty and a strong cultural heritage. The workforce, that...

Albert Maysles’ last film takes us aboard America’s busiest long-distance train route. The film unfolds as a series of interconnected vignettes,...

Enter the world of installation artist Craig Colorusso, who is transforming our environment through sculpture, light and sound. A series of audio...

Sculpture and construction, as well as art and labor, are often imagined as not only unrelated but at odds with one another. INSTALLATION is a visual...

Intimidad is an original Mexican love story about family relationships and the meaning of “home.” Cecy and Camilo – ages 21 – recently moved...

As ISIS began retreating from its vast territory in Iraq last year, it left behind a deadly crop of improvised explosives in fields, homes and even...

This documentary celebrates the uniqueness of childhood and the lack of limits in a child’s imagination. In an outdoor nursery in the woods,...

What does it mean to have hope when there is none? IT AIN'T OVER is a cinematic documentary that follows Dr. Ed Dobson, a man accustomed to...

Italian artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani captures the otherworldly landscape of a marble quarry in the Apuan Alps, Northwest Italy, as Il Capo (The...

Few would mistake Oregon’s grassy fields for the jungles of Vietnam, but war re-enactors try. Dressed in fatigues, these men willingly recreate a...

The rise and fall of the Middle East peace process in photos, to the rhythms of Beethoven's 7th symphony.

Filmed across two turbulent years, IN HER HANDS tells the story of Zarifa Ghafari, who at 26 became one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors and...

IN THE BLOOD: An Illustration of the turn-of-the-century Maine lumbermen & river drivers  The film/presentation employs stories and descriptions...

Vibrant 16mm footage of John McEnroe's 1984 French Open final illuminates a fascinating essay on the kinship between tennis and filmmaking.

An expressive documentary that depicts the life of 80 year old Joan Mills in her aging coastal village. Following the death of her younger sister,...

In this provocative Oscar-nominated short documentary, one of the most notorious incidents of the Iraq War--the July 2007 slayings of two Reuters...

A pathetic movie pitch slips into the murkiness of memory, and histories best forgotten or purposely ignored.

Witness a crescendo where the manipulation of Communist societies and the depersonalization of individual identity become increasingly evident after...

Cassandra edits her mother's films of 1960s-80s Brooklyn, ruminating on the challenges she faced as a creative black woman.

Featuring Railroad Square’s Nancy Bixler, this documentary examines the art of “art handling” behind the Colby College Museum of Art’s...

Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution...

Capturing post-war Iraq in three chapters, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS focuses on the lives of individuals to tell a larger story of a country torn apart by...

On a small island in the Indian Ocean, forty million crabs make their way through dense jungle to the rugged coast and, finally, to sea. Yet the...

"A young anteater found dead by the side of a road, a boa constrictor wanders in the suburbs of Taguatinga, a maned wolf is found in a farm in...

This political artist made satirically searing commentary on the dark side of history. A humble and humorous artist/teacher, Woell opened the door...

Joanna starts the blog when she finds out she has cancer and is given three months to live. Then she promises her 5-year-old son, Jas, that she will...

Joseph Fiore was part of a remarkable contingent of NYC artists who made their way to Maine in the 1950s. Alongside Josef Albers, Willem deKooning,...

Eric and Troy are scientists by day and amateur filmmakers by night. JOURNEY TO PLANET X follows the duo’s most ambitious film endeavor to date....

Filmed for over three years, JACINTA begins at the Maine Correctional Center where Jacinta, 26, and her mother Rosemary, 46, are incarcerated...

In this Academy Award-nominated short, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life...

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Kamp Katrina, an award winning cinéma vérité documentary, follows a small group of people who have taken refuge in a garden transformed into a...

Molly Spotted Elk was born into a Penobscot tribe in Maine and throughout her life provided a doorway between worlds. She recorded the creation...

A gripping, nonfiction psychological thriller, Robert Greene’s KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil (HOUSE OF CARDS, LISTEN UP...

KCR is a nine-channel, nonlinear installation project that explores the path of the defunct Karachi Circular Railway through stills, video, drone...

In "Keepers of the Trail" Maine Guides Garrett and Alexandra Conover lead us on a winter camping odyssey to Labrador, Canada. Travelling by snowshoe...

With the northern white rhino species on the brink of extinction, two ranger recruits are mentored by a seasoned ranger with an unorthodox approach...

Behind America’s dollar hamburgers and 72-ounce sodas is a key ingredient that quietly fuels our fast-food nation: corn. In KING CORN , recent...

"Rashomon" meets "Fargo" in Knee Deep, a bittersweet, true crime story of Josh Osborne, a sheltered Maine farm boy who attempts to save the family...

A portrait of a life in rural America following an amiable cab driver in Central Maine who lives alone in a trailer in the woods.

Three families live in a village partially submerged by water in Northwestern Mexico: Pani and Paula do not want to close their tortilleria and spend...

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Witness the work of community members with substance-use disorders, first responders, and health professionals in the Kainai First Nation as they...

Isidro meanders through the rainforest while he and his brother remember the times he found himself face to face with death itself.

Set within the rainforests of southern Mexico, LA LAGUNA tells the story of a Mayan boy’s remarkable journey from childhood to adolescence. While...

A philosophical and emotive immersion in that precious period of life that is the end of life, through one year of meetings and dialogues between the...

A mountain lion stalks Pueblo Ranquel, an indigenous community in the middle of the desert. Uriel (11) and Isaías (13) are friends. They feed the...

To find solace after her son’s sudden death, Patricia Barnes built a series of stained glass pyramids. Thirteen years later, she is moving forward...

The final days of projecting movies on 35mm celluloid film have arrived at one weathered art house cinema. But the Little Art Theatre is going out...

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WINNER: BEST DIGITAL NARRATIVE AT SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST 2019 “Le Lac” is a dreamscape where liquid gives way to dust. The oasis of the Sahel, Lake...

In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a thousand hopeful African migrants,...

An estranged father longs to reconnect with his young son, but fears he never will. LETTER TO SUBI documents a moment of regret and hope in the wake...

LEWISTON is an intimate portrait of an American experiment of living. A crowd of Muslim worshippers prays in an ice hockey rink. An aging Mainer...

Residents at the Tinskoi Psychoneurological Institute in Siberia have modest dreams: to find love and have children-to live independently and pay...

Offering a selection of some of the most well conserved antique tools in the country, Skip Brack's Liberty Tool Shop, in Liberty, Maine, is a Mecca...

A rare and surprising look at the everyday lives of Iraqis. Against the backdrop of war, families are still finding moments to laugh, celebrate and...

The inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to...

In 2004, Jason Crigler’s life was taking off. He was one of New York’s hottest young guitarists, his new CD was due for release and his wife,...

Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented, and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this...

A brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and violence perpetrated by the Myanmar military has driven more than 700,000 Rohingya from their homes,...

Filmmaker Lyda Kuth becomes anxious when her daughter heads to college, and she decides to query experts and nonexperts on love, marriage and...

When night falls in rural Germany, old VW-caravans decorated with flashy lights line the country roads which lead through potato fields and dark...

J.T. believes fly-fishing is a metaphor for life: sometimes a well cast lure is more important than catching fish. Xenie’s fishing philosophy tends...

Lowland Kids tells the story of Howard and Juliette, the last teenagers on Isle de Jean Charles, a sinking island on the coast of Louisiana. For the...

Luna Magica, a professional Lucha Libre wrestling star in Mexico, dreams of becoming world wrestling champion while fighting to make ends meet as a...

Set in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the experience takes participants into the subterranean depths of Sanford Research Lab and Wind Cave as they...

The border between the United States and Canada is the longest international border in the world. Six-hundred and eleven of those miles distinguish...

With poetry and sensorial richness, the film captures a day in the life of a family of fishermen in Colombia as they wait for the fish to come so...

A coming-of-age tale about a group of friends dealing with a classmate’s death, this film explores grief tinged with existential confusions.

Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the US colony’s governor in 2019, LANDFALL offers a portrait of collective trauma and resistance....

Affected by violence and broken family relationships, a man goes on a journey through memory and time.

Before 12-year-old Reyboy leaves the isolated fishing village where he grew up to attend high school in the city, director Venice Atienza joins him...

LAST DREAMS follows three women during their last month of life. We follow their relationship with doctors, nurses, priests and family members, and...

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In the south of France, scientists from 37 countries are building the most complex machine ever attempted: an artificial sun. If they get it right,...

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In the summer of 2003, Liberia, America s oldest African ally, is in total chaos. Stunning in its access and images, LIBERIA: AN UNCIVIL WAR offers a...

For detained immigrants who can’t pay their bond, for-profit companies like Libre by Nexus offer a path to reunite with their families. But for...

Set in the outer space of consciousness, the surfaces of planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the...

A taxidermist coolly goes about his business.

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What will a tree hear, over the course of its life? What does it have to say?ListenTree situates sound in the trees of public spaces, to be...

This is where Listener begins: with a wanderer Listening, an Oglala woman, equipped with Listening devices, which are passed down from woman to...

An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.

The filmmaker’s autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his mother, a mail order bride, to face this...

Homeless at 13, Liz lived a tragic life of despair, raging behavior and a brutal fight to survive on the streets. Filmed over four years, we follow...

LOOK & SEE is a cinematic portrait of farmer and writer Wendell Berry. Through his eyes, we see both the changing landscapes of rural America in the...

A charming and rich portrait of eccentric matriarch Julita Salmerón and her family. With hilarious and unexpected turns we discover just how Julita...

At eighty-six, tennis coach Nick Bollettieri is a living legend. At his academy in Florida, he raised a generation of champions. Courier. Seles....

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER tells the story of the local movement and...

: Analogue image and sound composition. :: Illusion of movement. Apparition. Dispersion. ::: Lungta (horse wind, internal air).

A haunted man desperately searches for his lost love through an illegal pirate radio broadcast. Punk-agit-noir.

MAGNETIC RECONNECTION is a short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying man-made debris surrounding the Arctic Canadian town...

The parent-child relationship is emotionally charged from the moment a person is born. But it becomes especially complex when your single parent is...

An immigrant prep-chef from Ecuador recounts his rise to become one of the fastest runners in the New York City Marathon.

Matthew Stoneman dreamed of pop stardom. Instead, he went to jail, learned Spanish, and emerged as “Mateo,” a caucasian bolero singer. Mateo is...

From an Academy Award winning director comes a story of an investigation into a cover-up in one of world's most powerful institutions. This film...

Set against the raucous backdrop of the 2010 World Cup, Meanwhile in Mamelodi is a beautifully crafted portrait of a place and one family’s daily...

Filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors capture an unseen side of the Iraq War with this compelling cinematic portrait of the men and women who...

In the high-stakes game of big-wall climbing, the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting at the headwaters of the sacred...

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of...

When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters....

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, those who went to the Superdome for shelter were forbidden from bringing their pets. The animals that were...

Shot inside a Siberian prison camp and the surrounding countryside, this absorbing documentary traces the individual paths of three young women now...

What if fighting for your country meant going against some of its most traditional values? Motherland is a documentary about the women who shake...

The subject of My Autonomous Neighbor is the outsider artist, post-psychedelic philosopher and compulsive knick-knack collector, Fred "Tate "...

Two survivors of opposite sides of a brutal war in the Middle East meet again years later under astonishing circumstances.

Rosemarie's one and only 90th birthday wish is a trip to In-N-Out for hamburgers. Will Ray get enough cash together to grant it?

Magaluf, Mallorca, a peaceful seaside town that turns into one of the most heavily overcrowded tourist destinations in summer. How do the locals...

In a moving portrait of resilience, Maiden chronicles the unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to...

14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out—camera in hand—on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the...

A film about immigrant and U.S.-born teen girls in Maine who find common ground and acceptance. The film's 14 teen protagonists-from Somalia, the...

Filmed over three years in China and the U.S., MAINELAND is a multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two affluent and cosmopolitan teenagers...

Man of the People is a political thriller surrounding the legacy of Chicago mayor Harold Washington. A complex unfolding of his two campaign runs...

Explore the exuberant and chaotic worlds of an imagination haunted by bipolar disorder.Guided by the compelling voices of Felicia and François who,...

The life cycle of plastic beads is traced from their manufacture at a Fuzhou, China, manufacturing facility to their extensive use by revelers at the...

After recovering from a brutal attack that left him in a coma, Mark Hogancamp builds a miniature World War II-era town in his backyard and creates...

A filmmaker mourns the fading faces of his loved ones and evokes the ritual of masks as a way of connecting to the afterlife.

Waste on the shores, waste on the mountains. On ocean floors and deep down in the earth. MATTER OUT OF PLACE is a film about rubbish, which has...

MAYOR is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. His immediate goals:...

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From the potato harvest in Aroostook County, to the innovations of a seventh-generation farmer Downeast, to the struggles of a dairy farmer in...

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* Scott never wanted to join the military. He had a full life planned out: marrying his high school girlfriend, building a family, and exploring the...

Robert, an ex-shipyard welder from Govan in Glasgow, reflects on how his life experiences have influenced his new found compulsion to write. He has...

An American journalist and a Japanese architect rescue an ancient farmhouse in Japan, changing their lives forever.

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A travelogue that begins at the clinic: a female patient, undergoing diagnostic tests, becomes a seafaring vessel, signaling her distress through...

MOON RIDER is a coming-of-age story about the bike rider Rasmus Quaade. The film follows young Rasmus’ struggle to become a professional rider, a...

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An annual bus service that takes children to visit their mothers in prison explores the impact of mass incarceration on a generation of youth.

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An examination of a festive film premier investigating the survival of the stereotypes and colonial inheritance within a Western collective...

James Brown changed the face of American music and was the classic embodiment of the American dream. The son of a “turpentine man” from rural...

A grandmother teaches her grandson about the origins of their remote Indigenous village as the mysterious morning slowly unfolds.

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, a family communicates with the home front via Skype, watching Aleppo disintegrate and their loved ones change....

World-famous architect Louis Kahn had two illegitimate children with two different women outside of his marriage. Son Nathaniel always hoped that...

During the pandemic, a 14 year old boy stuck in his school dormitory yearns for his village while his mother tries contacting him.

In this touching family narrative, a bohemian singer/artist becomes a father to his five-year-old niece when his sister's mental health deteriorates,...

Master documentarian Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile) captures the long-awaited revolution set off by protests in 2019 in his native Chile....

Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian teenager growing up in the heart of East Jerusalem. When Mohammed's family is forced to give up a part of their...

Following the advent of glasnost and perestroika and the eventual collapse of the USSR, the childhood beliefs and ideals of many former Soviets are...

NARROWSBURG tells the story of a French film producer and a mafioso-turned-actor who attempt to turn a tiny town into the “Sundance of the East.”...

NATIONAL BIRD follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial...

NE ME QUITTE PAS is a tragicomic ode to failure. In a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob (Flemish) and Marcel (Walloon) share their solitude, sense...

A Chicano baker reflects on the gentrification of San Francisco’s Mission District, and the loss of a neighborhood he once knew.

Six hair salons in New York City, each with a unique personality, are explored as places of social gathering. Touching on themes of ethnicity, class,...

Joining the ranks of a growing club to which no one wants to belong, a cast of characters within Newtown, Connecticut interconnect, weaving an...

NIAGARA’S FURY is a photographic documentary that explores the city that has grown up around the world's most famous waterfalls. A series of...

NIGHT LABORER follows a 46-year-old Downeaster during his transition from an independent and rugged clam digger by day, to a wage laborer at his...

Economic in style and subject, Nile Perch is an austere, contemplative apologue of Lake Victoria fishermen in Uganda. In flickering black and white,...

Presenting a convolution of extended long takes, NO EXIT immerses viewers into the wetness and spatial disorientation of the subjects’ lives in...

How did a poor Jewish kid from Connecticut bring us Archie Bunker and become one of the most successful television producers in the buisness? Norman...

In the Canadian Great North, men live deep in rugged nature, cut off from the world. They chose this region for its beauty. And yet, through their...

In 1983 writer and theologian John Hull went blind. He began keeping an audio diary to make sense of his loss. With exclusive access to these...

Stepping out into the rain John is captivated by the rich and varied soundscape that envelops him: the water splashing in the blocked gutter,...

To scrape money together for the concert, Malook and some friends pull the copper lines out of the walls of empty buildings that are riddled with...

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When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s Haida...

From war photographer Shaul Schwarz comes NARCO CULTURA, an explosive look at the drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border...

Nazarbazi [the play of glances] is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are...

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NIEGE is an industrial ballet of snow plows, going up and down the streets of Montreal after a particularly impressive snowfall.

Sherman lives in a remote and unknown place. By day, he digs for clams; by night, he works alone in a factory that we find hard to imagine is ever...

Eight years after being raped on a beach near Santiago, a young filmmaker arms a kaleidoscope with dozens of video diaries, showing the wounds of the...

An ode to nature and human relations, No Kings explores the expression of freedom within one of the last traditional Caiçara communities.

A documentary about the professional poker circuit.

A detailed, on-the-ground account of the 2016 standoff between protesters occupying Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and federal...

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An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while...

In a time of rapidly dwindling global biodiversity, the animals that are earmarked for protection efforts are often those considered by humans to be...

Alongside her Shih Tzu, a woman ponders the ethics of genetic replication, the possible pitfalls of animal immortality, and the eternal wonders of...

A family death spurs a first-person study on the nature of grief, time, and origins.

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ICE wants to deport a 28-year-old Maine permanent resident back to the country his family fled as refugees when he was a child.

A story of love, grief and reconciliation between a survivor of child trafficking and her father, who played a direct role in her ordeal.

Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn (Manda Bala, Love Means Zero) infiltrates this...

A n immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.

Nový Svět (A New World): Music and dance intertwine in this intimate contemplation of the violent and exploitative global commercial sex trade; an...

OBJECT is a creative portrayal of a search and recovery playing out in the spaces of two worlds; a wilderness of ice and under the water.

In this bold documentary, director Michael Palmieri spends one year with the Moshers, a poverty-stricken New York City family living with an array of...

By putting almost 500 hours of films, posted on YouTube by hundreds of amateur Inuit filmmakers, together into a coherent form, Gagnon creates an...

A short visual meditation, OF THE UNKNOWN is set in Hong Kong, where millionaires and the ‘working poor’ live side by side in one of Asia’s...

OFF LABEL is a trip through the medicated margins of American life, examining the prevalence of pharmaceutical drugs through the lives of some unique...

Twenty-five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of radicals live in the desert, struggling to survive as...

The time is very late. The night sky is pitch black. But still, Didier must see his cow. OH HOLY COW attempts to capture, directly, the truth and...

OLMO AND THE SEAGULL tells the story of Olivia, a free-spirited stage actress, who discovers she is pregnant and finds her desire for freedom and...

China’s one-child policy, the extreme population control measure that made it illegal for couples to have more than one child, may have ended in...

Ahh, the joys of renting in New York City. A tiny, expensive apartment is expected, but an eccentric landlord with an itchy speed-dial finger? Told...

Garrison and Kevin are best friends. They skate every day and explore the underpasses and abandoned homes of their Southern California desert idyll....

Emilio works as a street cleaner in Rio de Janeiro. He is also a priest of Candomblé. While making a portrait film, the director opens up to a...

Three Roma children integrated into a mainstream school encounter prejudice and isolation at the hands of educators and fellow students.

In the Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. In order to do so, they frequently leave their own children...

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Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family. Filmed over two years, this film provides extremely rare...

Of Memory and Debris is an intimate portrait of the director’s grandparents, who remained in Venezuela after the majority of their families fled...

Coal River Valley is a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. Filmed over a period of five years, ON COAL RIVER follows a...

Nadia survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS and now, at 23, finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of the...

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Reverberations of US military occupation through three generations of women in the Philippines and US, contemplated through archives of wartime and...

On Ostrov island in the Caspian Sea, Russian inhabitants struggle to survive. Ivan regularly risks life and freedom attempting to escape, laughing,...

Three Syrian activists are reunited on a theatre stage in Paris. 10 years after the revolution, they revisit traumas and memories of a ferocious war.