Pragda | The Docuseek Public Library Collection

'63 Boycott

Connects the massive 1963 Chicago Public Schools boycott to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism.

'Til Madness Do Us Part

The daily lives and isolation of a group of men locked on one floor of a Chinese city's psychiatric institution.

100 Children Waiting for a Train

Filmmaker Ignacio Aguero poetically tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality - and a different world - through the cinema.

100 Ways to Cross the Border

Documentary United States, Mexico

A celebration of performance artist Gómez-Peña and the contributions his radical, anti-colonial art has made to conversations around border thinking, gender politics, and Latinx identity.

108 (Cuchillo de Palo)

An investigation into the shadowy circumstances of the death of Rodolfo Costa's, a persecuted gay man; and Paraguay's terrifying "108" homosexual blacklists that ruined lives, careers, and families.

10th Parallel

A voyage deep into the Amazon to explore the implications of Brazil's policy on uncontacted indigenous tribes.

12 Days

Legendary filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon chronicles the patients of a psychiatric ward where justice and madness meet.

15M: Excellent. A Wake-Up Call. Important.

15M: Excelente. Revulsivo. Importante.

Documentary, Experimental Spain

Tens of thousands of citizens occupied streets and squares in Spain, marking the beginning of the biggest social change in Spanish society. This planted the seed for Occupy Wall Street in the USA.

16 December

16 de decembro

Drama, Fiction Spain

How a political ingenue guided Hungary through its most critical period in three decades - and laid the groundwork for the fall of the Berlin Wall.

20 Farmers Hit Fame - No Business Like Show Business

Switzerland

3 minutos

Documentary Spain

For over 30 years, boxing trainer Antonio Fernández "Moustache" has been turning around kids' lives through the sport of boxing.

339 Amín Abel Hasbún. Memoria de un crimen

Drama, Fiction, Thriller Dominican Republic

An intriguing account of the murder of Amín Abel Hasbún, a brilliant student leader in the Dominican Republic accused of kidnapping US Embassy official, J. Crowley. Hasbún was fighting against the repressive government of Dr. Joaquín Balaguer.

50 (Or Two Whales Meet at the Beach)

50 O dos ballenas se encuentran en la playa

Drama, Fiction Mexico

Félix and Elisa, both 17, meet while playing the Blue Whale Game, fall in love, and decide to face the game’s final challenge together: Suicide.

500 Francs

This early Melvin Van Peebles short is a small-scale tale of obsession, greed and violence.

5105, A Story of an Escape from Mauthausen

5105 Historia de una fuga de Mauthausen

Documentary, Animation Spain

In 1942, three Spanish prisoners created a plan to escape the Mauthausen extermination camp. Nobody had escaped alive until that moment.

6 Weeks to Mother's Day

Thailand

Paints an intimate portrait of Thai culture by exploring one of its most progressive schools, Moo Baan Dek (Children’s Village).

60 Years Old

60 años

Drama, Fiction, Fiction Spain

Rosa’s husband dies on his 60th birthday. But she will not abandon him on such a special day.

6000 A Day

The story of how the world's top decision makers knowingly failed to prevent the spread of the AIDS epidemic.

Documentary, Experimental Spain

An unorthodox walk through new flamenco by way of nine portraits of figure,s from dance, singing, poetry and activism.

900 Days

Unforgettable life stories told by survivors of the Siege of Leningrad, where more than 1 million people died during World War II.

918 Nights

918 GAU

Documentary Spain

Profiles Lency, a man who lives in Cuba's central mountains who has a creative solution to all of life's daily problems there.

A Bright Sun

Un sol radiant

Drama, Fiction Spain

Eleven-year-old Mila faces the last days of life before the world's end, struggling to understand death while keeping her family together.

A Bruddah's Mind

Cabeça de nêgo

Drama, Fiction Brazil

Eight African filmmakers each contribute a documentary portrait of the life of a different West African child.

A Decent Woman

Los decentes

Drama, Fiction Austria, Korea (South), Argentina

A housemaid in a gated community on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger club bordering the high security walls.

A Different Image

An extraordinary, poetic portrait of a beautiful young African American woman attempting to escape becoming a sex object and to discover her true heritage

A Distant Thud in the Jungle

In Papua New Guinea, local tribes are caught in a cycle of poverty due to oil companies looking for new fields and tourists in search of exoticism.

A Faraway House

Una casa lejos

Fiction, Drama Argentina

Graciela finds out that her father has a strange friendship with a homeless girl, and in the attempt to separate them she’ll find out that a different life is possible.

A Film About Couples

Una película sobre parejas

Fiction, Drama, Comedy Dominican Republic

Equal parts a candid exposition of the cinematic industry and a joyful exploration of marriage.

A Game for Six Lovers (L’eau à la bouche)

In a lavish country villa, a will reading is the occasion for three couples’ romantic and sexual pursuits and deceptions.

A Girl Like Her

From 1945-73, 1.5 million unmarried young American women, facing enormous social pressures, surrendered babies to adoption. Lacking sex education and easy access to birth control, they were forced into hiding while pregnant and then into “abandoning” their infants. In her latest film, Ann Fessler, Professor of Photography at Rhode Island School of Design, reprises the subject of her award-winning The Girls Who Went Away (National Book Critics Circle; Ballard Book Prize), which Ms. readers named an all-time best feminist book.

A God in Each Lentil

Y en cada lenteja un dios

Documentary Spain

Istoria odnoi komandirovki

Documentary Russia

From the Lilith Video Collective comes this sensitive and sympathetic examination of female prostitution in urban Brazil.

A Life Like Any Other

France

Through family archives and scenes that she films today, filmmaker Faustine Cros reconstructs a portrait of her mother, a woman who struggled all her life with motherhood.

A Life Like This

The stories of four outsider artists with disabilities who create without pretension or boundaries.

A Lion's Trail

Saudi Arabia

Israel

For the first time, orthodox Jewish Israelis allow a camera to enter their personal lives on an intimate level, exploring the world of matchmaking in the different sectors of the Haredi world.

A Modest World

A film about ordinary people who transform insignificant things into works of art.

A Moonless Night

Una noche sin luna

Comedy, Drama, Fiction Argentina, Uruguay

Un filósofo en la arena

Documentary Mexico, Spain

French philosopher Francis Wolff journeys through France, Spain, and Mexico, reflecting on bullfighting, life, mortality, and fading traditions.

A Place Between: The Story of an Adoption

A dramatic story of the reconciliation between biological and adoptive families for a cross-cultural adoptee.

A Place Called Music

Un lugar llamado música

Documentary Mexico

The captivating musical encounter between American composer Philip Glass and Mexican Wixárika musician Daniel Medina.

A Place Called Wahala

Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala in Togo hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony which recalls the end of World War I. The first German surrender of WWI was signed on the soil of the Reich's Togoland colony in August 1914, subsequently to the battle of Chra. It marked de facto the end of German "Togoland". But Wahala's history and its very name do evoke an otherwise painful past...

A Place That Matters

Acadia is a changing society at a crossroads. With citizens increasingly feeling abandoned by politicians, do artists have a role to play in society? Rooted firmly in the present while drawing lessons from the past, A Place That Matters follows its subjects as they reimagine life in their community through a series of collective initiatives.

A Place to Breathe

Explores the universality of trauma, resilience, and healing in immigrant communities

A Quest for Meaning

Two childhood friends take an impromptu road trip attempting to uncover the causes of our current global crisis and discover a way to bring about change.

A Rebellion for Love

Un amor en rebeldía

Documentary Mexico

In the late 70's, Yan María Castro founded Mexico's first lesbian-feminist group. Despite discrimination, the group won its place in society.

The story of Leopold Weiss, a Viennese Jew who converted to Islam in the 1920's and became the Muslim scholar Muhammad Asad.

A School in Cerro Hueso

Una escuela en Cerro Hueso

Drama, Fiction Argentina

After numerous rejections due to her Autism diagnosis, six-year-old Ema finally finds a safe place to observe and explore the world in silence and at her own pace.

A Sea Turtle Story

A moving and exquisite stop-motion animated film that chronicles the life of a sea turtle.

A Sense of Justice

Maîtres

Maîtres Christine Mengus, Nohra Boukara and Audrey Scarinoff put their hearts and souls into defending immigrants in France.

A Sense of Wonder

Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.

A Sentence for Two

The film contrasts the stories of prison inmates who are forced to give their newborn baby up with a prison nursery where infants spend the first year of life alongside their mothers.

A Shadow Remains

Phillip Toledano’s life is marked by the passing of family. His unique, yet universal, experience delves deeply into questions of identity, and the ability to manage death in an honest and often humorous manner.

A Shepherd

Un Pasteur

France

Estranho Caminho

Drama, Fiction Brazil

From the WNET series Black Journal, a tribute fllmed shortly after Malcolmn X's 1965 assassination, including an interview with his wdow, Dr. Betty Shabazz.

A Useful Life

La vida útil

Drama, Fiction Uruguay, Spain

An art film enthusiast fears that decrease in attendance will force the Uruguayan Cinematheque to close. To save it, Jorge enters a new world and is exposed to an unknown passion. A modern classic film.

A Veiled Revolution

Considers the possible reasons for modern Egyptian women's turn back to tradition.

Enter the world of disability as interpreted by six professional comics, who happen to be disabled.

Aboriginal Architecture

New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.

Abortion Helpline

At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.

Abortion and Women's Rights 1970

United States

This is the first film ever made about the struggle for abortion rights in the U.S.

Abortion: Add to Cart

With increasing burdens on clinics, activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way

About Everything There Is to Know

De todas las cosas que se han de saber

Documentary Peru

Canada

What risks are boys willing to take to achieve the perfect body? In general indifference, a public health crisis is unfolding: more and more young men are consuming anabolic steroids in order to achieve the body of their dreams.

Adriana's Pact

El pacto de Adriana

Documentary Chile

As her family’s worst nightmare unfolds on screen, the director tries to disproof accounts of her aunt’s role as an agent of Pinochet’s secret police. But… who is telling the truth?

Advertising Missionaries

Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Affluenza

Diagnoses the 'disease' of materialism and prescribes its antidote, simple living.

African Air

Flying in a motorized paraglider over one of the most diverse continents in the world, George Steinmetz captures in his photographs the stunning beauty, potential and hope of Africa's landscapes and people.

After Love

An intimate drama about the emotional and financial complexities of a separation, and the complexity of the end of a long love story.

After Spring

Depois da primavera

Documentary Brazil

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to fight for democracy in the country where they found refuge.

After The Earthquake

Después del terremoto

A young Latin American woman living in San Francisco is joined by her fiancee, who has escaped the political situation in their homeland.

After the Rape

After Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan, she speaks out, fights for justice in the Pakistani courts, starts two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center for abused women.

Agent Orange

A look at the long-term effects, on U.S. soldiers, the Vietnamese people, and the environment of Vietnam, of the spraying of Agent Orange on Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Agustin's Newspaper

Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile.

Airsick: An Industrial Devolution

Created with 20,000 photographs and a haunting soundtrack, "Airsick" plays out like an unsettling dream. Photographer Lucas Oleniuk examines our addiction to fossil fuel - and its consequences.

Al Djanat, the Original Paradise

Burkina Faso

After the death of her uncle, the director films her family courtyard in Burkina Faso as a dispute over the estate bursts out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonization.

Al Helm

An African American gospel choir goes to Palestine to sing in a Palestinian play about Martin Luther King, Jr.. becoming witnesses to life under occupation.

Al Jazeera

A behind-the-scenes look at Al Jazeera, the most important television news channel in the Arab world. ** Viewer's Choice, 2003 Middle East Studies Association FilmFest **

Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)

An aspiring corrido composer faces two life-changing choices: to traffic drugs or unlawfully cross the border into the United States.

Alan Magee: art is not a solace

Alan Magee: art is not a solace explores the artist’s subjects, locales, and the historical sources which have sustained his work for five decades. Through his paintings, sculpture, monotypes, music and short films, Magee asks viewers to consider the breadth of human behavior and experience.

An action-packed documentary which chronicles the tumultuous birth of a new nation in East Timor through a never-before-seen perspective. Kirsty Sword, a young Australian activist, aspired to be a documentary filmmaker, but instead she became a revolutionary.

Alice Júnior

Comedy, Fiction Brazil

A poignant experimental documentary that explores the effects of tragedy and remembrance on a bi-cultural family.

All Your Faces

France

In France, Restorative Justice has been offering victims and offenders the opportunity to engage in dialogues within secure environments.

All the Boys Are Called Patrick

Written by Éric Rohmer and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, two friends unknowingly meet and make plans with the same Patrick.

All the World's Memory

An exploration of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Alma

Drama, Fiction Colombia

The transition of her body and her hidden desires lead Alma to face her inner fears and thus take the first step to love herself as she is.

Almayer's Folly

Narrative film adaptation by Chantal Akerman of Joseph Conrad's first novel, following a European man living in Southeast Asia and his half-indigenous daughter.

Almost Friends

Two girls, one religious Jewish and the other Israeli-Arab whose father is from the Occupied Territories, start to correspond online and find themselves deep in a surprising, exciting, and stressful experience.

Almost Home

Almost Home is a stunningly intimate feature-length, cinema verité film that follows the stories of residents, families and workers in a Midwestern nursing home as they struggle with the personal challenges of aging while trying to transform their century-old hospital-like institution into a true home.

Almost There

Switzerland

The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.

Amazon Mirror

O Reflexo do Lago

Documentary Brazil

During the 1980s, Brazil's military dictatorship erected a massive Amazon dam, leaving residents without electricity for 40 years. A film crew explores the decision to stay.

Ambulance

Palestine, Norway

The story of Anton Szandor LaVey and the Church of Satan.

An Apollo Legend

One night a week, the stage at the Apollo Theater is an amateur's battleground, where performers have competed for stardom since 1934. Today, the legend of Ella Fitzgerald lives on in the hearts of those who pray for their own big break.

An Ecology of Hope

Pierre Dansereau, ecologist, visionary and inveterate optimist, believes that while the environment may be threatened by human beings, it will also be saved by them.

An Ecology of Mind

A daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist.

An Empire of Reason

What it would have been like if television had covered the ratification process of the US Constitution in 1781.

An Hour From the Middle of Nowhere

United States

In the Deep South, the lives of an immigration attorney, a community, and a family intertwine in the shadow of one of the largest immigration detention prisons in the United States.

An Injury To One

Reconstructs the long-forgotten murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, and draws a connection between the unsolved murder of Little, and the attempted murder of the town itself.

Andrés lee i escribe

Drama, Fiction, Romance Chile

Andrés Centeno, a young factory worker, realizes that although he has lost its way and forgotten his teenage dreams, it’s still not to late.

Angel Face

Carita de Cielo

Fiction, Comedy, Romance, Musical Mexico

A singular comedy of errors, this Mexican classic follows Lupe as she pretends to be a thief to infiltrate a criminal cell that is threatening her father.

Angel Peacock

Twelve-year-old Dawod, a Yazidi refugee, faces the challenges of his first year in Canada.

Angry Monk

Gendun Choephel, a legendary figure in Tibet, turned from the monastic life he was born to (as the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama), to become a fierce critic of his country's religious conservatism and isolationism.

Angélica [a tragedy]

Angélica [una tragedia]

Documentary Spain

Traces the biography and current relevance of this controversial moral and political philosopher, his work, and his contemporary role as an intellectual leader of the anti-globalization movement.

António One Two Three

António um dois três

Fiction, Comedy, Drama Brazil

António is thrown out of the house by his father after he receives an anonymous tip that his son hasn’t been at school for a year.

Apache 8

A story of resilience, strength, and tradition, APACHE 8 tells the story of an all-female group of firefighters, who protect their reservation from fire and respond to wildfires around the station.

Apart

Against the backdrop of a Midwestern state battling industrial decline, an opioid epidemic, and rising incarceration rates, APART offers an intimate portrait of three women who return home from prison and rebuild their lives after being separated from their children for years.

Are the Kids Alright?

Filmed in courtrooms, correctional institutions, treatment centers, and family homes, this searing documentary examines the results of the tragic decline in mental health services for children and adolescents at risk.

Arenal

Drama, Fiction Spain

Two teenage friends spend their summer in Madrid but are forbidden from seeing each other.

Argentina: Hope in Hard Times

The Argentine people, in the face of economic collapse, provide a hopeful example for the rest of us.

Argentina: Turning Around

An intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina.

Arid Lands

A moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West, the area around the Hanford Site in Washington State.

Arid Zone

Zona árida

Documentary Brazil

Brazilian director Fernanda Pessoa was 15 years old and experienced being a foreign exchange student for one year in conservative Mesa, AR. Now she’s back to try to understand her experience.

Art Poetry, Part 1

Animation, Romance Spain

Have you ever wondered what would it be like to mash-up Shakespeare’s poems with sound, music, pictures, and illustration? Art Poetry bringing people closer to poetry by representing a selection of the most significant poems in the history of literature in two-minute animation pieces.

Art Poetry, Part 2

Animation, Romance Spain

Have you ever wondered what would it be like to mash-up Shakespeare’s poems with sound, music, pictures, and illustration? Art Poetry bringing people closer to poetry by representing a selection of the most significant poems in the history of literature in two-minute animation pieces.

Art and Oligarchs

Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.

Art21: Borderlands

Documentary United States

Holocaust survivor Simone Lagrange vividly recounts her experiences in Auschwitz, and the role she played in bringing Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice.

Ashes

Cenizas

Drama, Fiction Ecuador, Uruguay

Caridad hasn’t spoken to her father since he left the family under a cloud of suspicion years ago, until a dormant volcano starts spewing ash with Caridad trapped in the blast zone.

Asier and I

Asier eta Biok

Documentary Ecuador, Spain

Asier and I follows Aitor as he ties to understand what could have led his childhood friend to join the terrorist group ETA. Armed with a camera, Aitor meets Asier upon his release from jail, ready to tell this story.

Ask the Sexpert

A longtime sex advice columnist gains popularity against the backdrop of a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools in India.

Documentary Mexico

Tino considers herself neither male nor female, but rather a “muxe,” a third gender that has been integrated into Zapotec culture.

Atomic Bamboozle

ATOMIC BAMBOOZLE follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant.

Atomic Homefront

ATOMIC HOMEFRONT shines an urgent and devastating light on the lasting toxic effects that nuclear waste can have on communities.

Attla

The untold story of Alaska native dogsled racing champion George Attla and his legacy

August Pace: 1989-2019

Thirty years after the world premiere of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham’s "August Pace," the original cast members gather once again in a New York City studio to teach their roles to a younger generation.

Aurora and the House of Lights

Aurora y la casa de las luces

Drama, Fiction Colombia

Documentary Brazil

This is a comprehensive view of Ayahuasca use, blending scientific, religious, and anthropological perspectives with the director's personal healing journey.

Azmaish

Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s inspiring and probing documentary explores the complex relationship between India and her native country.

Babygirl

La hembrita

Drama, Fiction Dominican Republic

A high-class woman has one of her maid's granddaughters under her care. She must decide between giving the girl back or keeping her in the family.

Back Then

Lo que no fue en tu año

Drama, Romance, Fiction Peru

After five months, one ordinary afternoon, Lucía and Jorge finally have a conversation about who they are and where they come from.

Backfired

Investigates the largest auto scam in the world, tracing VW's deliberate installation of defeat devices in their diesel cars to circumvent California and US vehicle emissions standards.

Backing Out of Time

The emotions and concerns of five diverse families as they navigate a new and often sudden terrain — caregiving

Bad Coyote

Its new, its fearless, and its very real. A hybrid type of coyote, thought to be part wolf, has migrated to Eastern Canada.

Bad Hair

Pelo malo

Drama, Fiction Venezuela

A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this best-seller tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age film.

As a team of managers in Gambia try to build a microfinance business, they learn that the loans may be small - but the stakes are very high.

Baracoa. 500 Years Later

Baracoa. 500 años después

Documentary Cuba, Spain

Switzerland

An urgent and immersive audiovisual quest, forging a path into the places where humans and other animals meet.

Becoming Traviata

An exhilarating account of the creative process and a rousing, uniquely accessible rendition of Verdi's glorious opera.

Documentary, Series Spain

We will discover that there is life beyond the T-bone steak with Michelin-starred chefs and a group of cyclists who are experts in lunches.

Beethoven's Nine

Canada, Germany

When director Larry Weinstein is pulled into his own documentary about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, his film about war, hope and music's relevance to our society today becomes a deeply personal exploration.

Before Flying Back to the Earth

Building on the long earned trust of the children towards the camera, filmmaker Arunas Matelis skilfully applies a simple but highly effective narrative and thus manages to create an extraordinary film that avoids sentimentality but stays deeply moving.

Before Opening Night

Antes del estreno

Drama, Fiction, Romance Argentina

Writer-director Santiago Giralt gives us elements of Woody Allen’s nervous comedy and Cassavetes’ melodramatic roller coaster in a storm of egos that takes place on one decisive weekend in the lives of Juana, a popular actress about to star in an important theater production, and her husband Roman, a director suffering from writer’s block.

Before Summer Ends

Switzerland, France

After five years of studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to French life and decides to return home to Iran. Hoping to change his mind, his two friends Hossein and Ashkan convince him to take a final trip across France.

Before The Flood II - Gong Tan

Yan Yu follows BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project.

Before a Rooster Crows

Antes que cante el gallo

Drama, Fiction Puerto Rico

Carmín is a teenager who lives in Barranquitas, a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico, with her tough and conservative grandmother. She dreams of moving to the city with a mother whose planes do not include her.

Before the Flood I

The residents of the historic Chinese city of Fengjie clash with officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world's largest dam.

Behind the Scenes: La Llorona

Documentary Mexico

Germany

Humor, chutzpah and solidarity against poverty and exclusion: a Romanian family in Berlin.

Why do some books become bestsellers? This documentary examines the phenomenon in today's global publishing industry.

Better This World

The story of two young Texans accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention reveals the workings of the post 9/11 security state.

Between Earth & Sky

United States

Shorlisted for an Academy Award®, follows world-renowned tree canopy ecologist Nalini Nadkarni as she prepares for one last research climb before considering retirement from the field.

Between Fire and Water

Entre fuego y agua

Documentary Colombia

Camilo is a young black man adopted by an indigenous couple in rural Colombia. Supported by his adoptive father, Camilo embarks on a journey to find his true identity and understand his two races.

Between Joyce and Remembrance

A hard-hitting look at one of the many heinous crimes that came before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Between Madness and Art

The story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) and his collection of art by schizophrenic patients.

Between Two Worlds

A personal essay revealing the passionate debates over identity and generational change inside today's American Jewish community.

Bixa travesty

Documentary Brazil

Linn da Quebrada, a Brazilian transgender singer and artist, presents a powerful and courageous feminist film-discourse on the body and its representation.

Black Africa White Marble

Through the conflict over raising a monument to honor the Italian explorer Petro di Brazza, BLACK AFRICA WHITE MARBLE shines a harsh light on central Africa's colonial past and troubled present.

Black Bread

Pa negre

Drama, Fiction, Thriller Spain

A history of the esoteric ideas and myths that served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideology and inspired Adolf Hiter.

Black and White Democracy

Democracia em preto e branco

Documentary, Musical Brazil

Follow Brazil's transition from dictatorship to democracy through three narratives: demands for free elections, Brazilian rock groups, and the Corinthian democracy football movement.

Black in Latin America, Ep. 01 - Haiti & Dominican Republic: An Island Divided

Documentary, Series United States

In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed, while In Haiti, hear the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic.

Black in Latin America, Ep. 02 - Cuba: The Next Revolution

Documentary, Series United States

In Cuba, Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music are linked to slave labor, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in 1959.

Black in Latin America, Ep. 03 Brazil: A Racial Paradise?

Documentary, Series United States

In Brazil, Professor Gates goes behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this “rainbow nation” is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.

Black in Latin America, Ep. 04 - Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet

Documentary, Series United States

In Mexico and Peru, Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of slavory and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created.

Blame Game

Beautifully shot and taking a global perspective, Blame Game explores the challenges but also the possible solutions - some very simple - that could reduce waste, take advantage of an impressive skill-set, alleviate poverty and help our environment.

Blast Beat

Comedy, Musical, Fiction United States

Germinio pétalas no asfalto

Documentary Brazil

A vibrant and inspiring documentary that captures the resilience and strength of queer Brazilian youth.

Blossom

The immigrant experience lovingly told through animation.

Blowback

BLOWBACK is a dynamic exploration of the representation of the wars in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) in world cinema which argues that films function as resonant cultural artifacts that shape how the conflicts come to be understood and remembered by audiences at the time, and those of generations to come.

Blue Files

Karpeta urdinak

Documentary Spain, France

Basque filmmaker Ander Iriarte suspects that his father was tortured and a recent study carried out in the Basque Country can prove it scientifically.

Blue Helmet

François Crémieux served as a French UN peacekeeper near the Bosnian town of Bihać. He never saw combat, but he was left deeply shaken by the experience.

Blue Island

This creative documentary shows real-life characters recreating protest movements from Hong Kong's modern history.

Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny

Largely unknown today, this doc explores the history of Emerik Blum's company, Energoinvest, which defied capitalist conventions on its way to success.

Blurring the Color Line (77 min)

Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the black and white narrative of America's racial history

Boca Chica

Drama, Fiction Dominican Republic

A vivid portrait of Central American immigrants who disappear along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border, exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life, as well as in death.

Borderline Cases

The environmental impact of the 2,000 factories (maquiladoras) on the US-Mexico border.

Boreal

Fiction, Drama Paraguay, Mexico

Benjamin is having trouble adjusting to barbed wire work. Left by The Boss in a desolate spot, he and other workers feel that the Paraguayan Chaco is getting strange and tiring.

Following four-year-old Ronen, a young boy with Down syndrome, this intimate documentary concretely demonstrates that inclusive preschool classrooms benefit both children with special needs and their typical peers.

Boy from the Blaze

El niño de fuego

Documentary Spain

After an accident left him severely burned, Aleixo is unable to live a normal life. Music and family giveshim hope. Will performing bring him back?

Boys Who Like Girls

Young men in Mumbai trying to break with bloody tradition, misogyny, and femicide.

Branding Illness

A documentary expose of how pharmaceutical companies create demand for the drugs at their disposal, and buy the science they need to prove their effectiveness.

Brave Girls

The story of three women and arranged marriage.

Brave Miss World

Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargil was abducted and raped in Milan, Italy two months before being crowned Miss World in 1998. Ten years later, she's ready to talk about it, and to encourage others to speak out.

Brazil: A Time to Build

Brasil, país do presente?

Documentary Brazil

How is the new generation of Brazilians feeling about the conflicting situation of the country? Diplomat, writer, and filmmaker Gustavo Westmann brings to the screen a renewed type of debate on Brazil in the 21st century.

Breach of Trust

Told from the point of view of women advocating for accountability and change, this compelling documentary by USC Graduate Mishal Mahmud examines the sexual assault scandal at the University of Southern California, detailing crimes committed by former gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall and exposing the active cover-up on the part of the administration.

Bread Bike

United States

Korea (South)

Women of all ages diving in all depths in Korea.

Brickmakers (Chircales)

Chircales

Documentary, Classic Colombia

An essential and highly influential classic, Chircales is the product of two of the most prominent and rebellious voices of the New Latin American Cinema: Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva.

Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

The first film about the Kyrgyz tradition of bride kidnapping takes viewers inside families, to talk with kidnapped brides who have managed to escape as well as those who are making homes with their new husbands.

Brides of Allah

Israel

Israeli director Natalie Assouline chronicles the lives of women who are serving time in prison for involvement in failed suicide attacks.

Bright Future

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish

Bringing Albert Home

Il Faut ramener Albert

France

Construindo pontes

Documentary Brazil

An exploration of the possible relationship between Heloísa, the filmmaker, and her father, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship.

Building Visions - India

In southern India, the architect Anupama Kundoo deals with the question of how to save resources with traditional and modern building materials.

Building Visions - Peru

In the middle of the Peruvian jungle, an Italian architect is building schools - together with the locals, in harmony with nature, beautifully and in record time.

Building Visions - Rotterdam

The Netherlands is always up to its neck in water. In Rotterdam, urban planners and architects are developing visions for life with water.

Building Visions - Vienna Seestadt

Blocks of flats instead of magnificent imperial buildings. A new Vienna is growing around a lake, a megacity with an innovative transport concept and promising ideas.

Building on Tainted Soil

United States

Discover how three generations of Native American boarding school survivors and their families are dealing with the fall-out of cultural erasure and reclaiming their culture.

Building the American Dream

Follow immigrant families rising up to seek justice in a construction industry rife with exploitation

Built to Burn

Across the west, wildfires have never been more destructive. Oregon’s record-breaking 2020 wildfire season killed at least 11 people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and businesses, and burned over 1 million acres of land. Today’s fires are vivid and deadly evidence of the new wildfire realities that can no longer be ignored.

Bundle of Blues

A thoughtful look at post-partum depression, which may affect as many as one in five new mothers.

Burma VJ

Oscar-nominated with numerous awards and sales around the world, BURMA VJ tells the story of the uprising of the monks in 2008.

Burn Them

Quémenlos

Documentary Argentina

The order to burn books was only a warning of what thousands of men and women who resisted the prevailing dictatorship in Argentina would face.

Burning Night

Breve miragem de sol

Drama, Fiction Brazil, France, Argentina

Along with the lonely cab driver Paulo, the night and Rio de Janeiro are the main protagonists of the new film by Eryk Rocha (awarded at Cannes'16 for Cinema Novo).

Business Club

Join young Viscount Arthur de Soultrait in the run-up to his wildly elaborate birthday/brand relaunch party.

Butterflies and Bulldozers

The fight to save San Francisco's San Bruno Mountain speaks to the global dilemma of economic growth versus species preservation.

Bécquer and the Witches

Bécquer y las brujas

Documentary Spain

An exploration of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's "Letters from My Cell" and the witchcraft legends of Trasmoz, blending history, mysticism, and poetry.

CBQM

Citizen-run radio station CQBM, serving remote areas of northern Canada, stitches together the far-flung communities.

CERN

Stunning imagery and fascinating insight into the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, the Large Hadron Collider.

CMYK

An unrestrained animated riot of color and energy built on a multitude of CMYK symbols, the codes used in four-color process printing.

Cacu: A Change for Life

Cacú: un cambio por la vida

Documentary Dominican Republic

Comedy, Drama, Fiction Spain

In a summer mansion in the Costa Brava, a young domestic worker has to serve two rich kids while they enjoy their summer.

Calling the Ghosts

CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs

Calls from Moscow

Llamadas desde Moscú

Documentary Cuba, Germany, Norway

An apartment in Moscow becomes the stage for one day in the lives of four queer Cuban exiles, shortly before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine changes everything.

Some people travel to Bolivia to go down the dangerous silver mines, to see the medieval work conditions. Are they crawling through the contaminated tunnels to learn about a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?

Canela

Documentary Argentina

The daily life of Canela Grandi, a trans woman nearly 60 years old. Canela exposes a complicated and positive view of the reality of a minority that is almost invisible to many.

Capturing Lee Miller

A pioneering female artist who broke taboos and defied expectations.

Capturing the Flag

A tight-knit group of friends travel to North Carolina to fight voter suppression and intent on proving that American democracy can be defended by small acts of individual citizens.

Carajita

Fiction, Drama Dominican Republic, Argentina

Sara and her nanny Yarisa have a relationship that transcends class and race: they are close to a daughter-mother; but an accident will test their intimate loyalty.

Caregiver: A Love Story

A woman’s heroic decision to take control of the end of her life creates complex, unexpected challenges for her caregiver husband

Carface (Autos Portraits)

A biting animated satire of our Big Oil-based civilization.

Caring at the End of Life

The challenges patients, families and health care providers face when addressing end-of-life care and decision-making.

Drama, Fiction Brazil

A select group of people have had the distinction of living in three different centuries. This video presents several individuals from this rare group.

Cerro Rico Tierra Rica

Cerro rico, tierra rica

Documentary Bolivia, Colombia, United States

Chillida: Lo profundo es el aire

Documentary Spain

A poetic and fast-paced reminiscence of one of the most prominent sculptors of the 20th century.

China 2000 BC - The Rise and Fall of Dynasties in Ancient China

Remarkable new archaeological discoveries provide clues about the rise of Chinese culture.

China 2000 BC - Unearthing the Truth Behind a Myth: The Xia Dynasty

The nation of China is more than 4000 years old, and recent discoveries are shedding new light on its origins. In our common knowledge Chinaﾶs earliest…

China Concerto

An observational essay shot in the southwestern city of Chongqing, CHINA CONCERTO probes the uses of public spectacle in contemporary China.

Chinatown

Three senior activists fight for housing rights in DC’s historic Chinatown

Chinese Take-Away

Un cuento chino

Comedy, Fiction Argentina

Shot over three years, CHRONICLE OF A GENOCIDE FORETOLD follows several Rwandans before, during, and after the 1994 genocide. (Part 3 of 3)

Chronicle of the End of the World

Crónica del fin del mundo

Drama, Fiction Colombia

Disenchanted and skeptical about the world, a retired professor shut into his appartment for 20 years whittles away his days by systematically insulting and complaining over the phone to all who have ever offended him in the past.

Churchill's Island

Winner of the first Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject, presents the strategy of the Battle of Britain, showing with penetrating clarity the relationships between the various forces made up the island's defenses.

Cinema Novo

An intricately edited documentary composed of film clips from the major works of the Brazilian 'Cinema Novo' movement and period interviews with its leading filmmakers.

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for independence where cinema was mobilized as a weapon of political struggle against colonialism.

Circuit Earth

Shot throughout Philadelphia during the first Earth Week in 1970, the film features community groups, citizens and celebrities reflecting on the crisis facing the planet.

Ciro and Me

Ciro y yo

Documentary Colombia

Wherever Ciro goes, war always finds him. His children were recruited by the armies of war, his family was repeatedly displaced, and his indigenous wife died of sadness. Foreign to the system, but a victim of the system, Ciro has led a heroic anonymous struggle to live life on his own terms.

Citizen George

United States

Cidade de deus -10 anos depois

Documentary Brazil

An investigation into the fate of the young actors who participated in the award winning film City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, featuring actress Alice Braga (Queen of the South) and musician and actor Seu Jorge, among others.

City of the Dead

Ciudad de los muertos

Documentary Spain

United States

Documentary, Drama Mexico

Fiction, Drama Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Norway

An introduction to the Copper Inuit of the Coronation Gulf region of Canada's Northwest Territories, one of the last aboriginal groups to be contacted by people from outside.

Cordelias

Drama, Comedy Spain

Ten imprisoned women organize a theater play that might serve both as therapy to their own frustrations and as a way of reintegrating in society.

Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena

This classic rerelease from award-winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo is a complex tribute to Selena, the Tejana superstar gunned down in 1995 at the age of 23 by the president of her fan club, just as she was on the brink of blockbuster crossover fame.

Correspondence

Correspondencia

Documentary Spain, Chile

From Spain to Chile, award-winning film directors correspond and share their reflections about film, family, heritage, and maternity.

Councilwoman

COUNCILWOMAN follows the first term of Rhode Island Councilwoman Carmen Castillo as she balances her day job as a hotel housekeeper with the demands of public office.

Courtroom 3H

Documentary Spain, United States

Shot in a single courtroom over the course of a month, the film takes viewers inside Florida’s Tallahassee Unified Family Court, which specializes in judicial cases involving minors. Cases of abuse, abandonment, and negligence are presided over with the express objective, under the law, to reunite families as quickly and safely as possible.

Cows Wearing Glasses

Las vacas con gafas

Drama, Fiction Puerto Rico

Directed by one of the most talented emerging filmmakers coming out of the new wave of Puerto Rican cinema, Cows Wearing Glasses uses a subtle sense of humor to touch upon issues of aging.

Cracks in the Mask

A Torres Strait Islander sets out on a voyage of discovery to the great museums of Europe where his cultural heritage now lies.

Craft

Riscado

Drama, Fiction Brazil

Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break. But an audition leads to a rare opportunity.

Cravos

Documentary Brazil

Photographer Christian Cravo travels through Africa, exploring his efforts to overcome traumas while navigating familial disagreements and memories.

Crazywater

After years of struggle and shame, five First Nations Canadians are bravely telling their stories about their struggle with alcoholism and the role of traditional culture in long-term sobriety.

Documentary, Series The Netherlands

Stef Biemans journeys down one of Colombia’s main waterways: the Magdalena River. With new roads and bridges being constructed, what will progress destroy?

Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty

Tribal members on the Crow reservation fight for better food and a better future for their community.

Cuernavaca

Fiction, Drama Mexico

Curupira e a máquina do destino

Fiction, Experimental Brazil, France

An encounter between the entity Curupira, a queer devil who protects the forests of Brazil, and the incarnated ghost of Iracema, a 14-year-old prostitute.

Cyber-Seniors

A group of senior citizens take their first steps into cyber-space under the tutelage of teenage mentors

César's Grill

Grill de César, El

Documentary, Comedy Germany, Switzerland

To save his estranged father's restaurant, vegetarian Darío Aguirre returns to Ecuador, reluctantly helping rescue the failing carnivorous business.

DIVEST! The Climate Movement on Tour

Chronicles 350.org's 'Do the Math' bus tour as it launched the fossil fuel divestment campaign onto the national and ultimately international stage.

Dalya's Other Country

A Syrian teen attempts to balance her new life in L.A. while maintaining her Islamic traditions.

Dam/Age

Traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India.

This "Best of Fest" collection from Dance Camera West 2021 includes 8 short films.

Dance Camera West - Best of Fest 2

This "Best of Fest" collection from Dance Camera West 2021 includes 8 short films.

In this gripping documentary, three Jewish women recall their lives as teenagers in occupied Holland, Hungary and Poland, when they refused to remain passive as the Nazis rounded up local Jewish populations.

Dark Eden

Explores Fort McMurray in the far north of Canada, home of the largest industrial project and the third largest oil reserve on the planet.

Dark Side

Israel

Part I of Wang Bing's powerful film of survivors of the Chinese Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957 reeducation camps.

Dead Souls - Part II

Part II of Wang Bing's powerful film of survivors of the Chinese Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957 reeducation camps.

Dead Souls - Part III

Part III of Wang Bing's powerful film of survivors of the Chinese Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957 reeducation camps.

Dear Christine

8-year old Christine Girard is about to enter a world of adversity, failure… and cheaters. Luckily present-day Christine has some tips and the benefit of knowing she’ll become an Olympic Champion.

Dear Dr. Spencer

The story of Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer, who, in addition to providing routine care to his rural Pennsylvania town, also helped women with, what at the time were illegal, abortions.

Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

Documentary Spain

La tara

Documentary, Experimental Argentina, Spain

A light lens into deep history led by the discovery of the soundtrack to Argentina's sole surrealist film, the 1936 “Tararira: Today's Bohemia.”

Delicate Balance

Frágil equilibrio

Documentary Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan

Centered around an extensive interview with Jose “Pepe” Mujica, the former President of Uruguay who gained notoriety on the world stage as a rare politician: one that lives according to the ideas and principles he preaches, Delicate Balance is a contemplative essay on the everyday reality of globalization.

Delikado (94 min)

Three environmental crusaders confront murder and betrayal as they battle to save an island paradise in the Philippines

Delphine's Prayers

A portait of Delphine, a Cameroonian woman who turned to prostitution to support her family.

Democracy on Deadline

A survey of journalists working in various media and languages around the world, as they grapple with their relationships to government, and the dangers of speaking truth to power.

Documentary, Series France

A highway winds through these valleys, serving as the sole communication route between La Paz, Bolivia's administrative capital on the Altiplano, and the wealth of the Amazon basin.

Die Before Blossom

The rising importance of Islamic values in an Indonesian public school is apparent in this portrait of modern schoolgirls Kiki and Dila.

Diet for a Small Planet

United States

Ordinary people from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh recount their tumultuous experiences after the 1947 British subdivision of colonial India.

Divorce Denied

Israel

Women fighting for their independence as religious women and for their freedom from the men who chain them.

Divorce Iranian Style

Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women’s lives

The great filmmaker Jia Zhangke travels with acclaimed painter Liu Xiaodong to Thailand where they meet workers in the throes of social turmoil.

Donga

Libya

Based on a true story, a young inmate falls in love with her married prison director.

Down to the Wire

Fiction, Animation, Thriller, Science Fiction Spain

Somewhere in a post-apcopalyptic world settled by people made of wire, a stranger arrives to a ghost town where the only inhabitants are a man and his daughter...

Downstream to Kinshasa

Victims of the bloody Six-Day War in the Democratic Republic of Congo travel via boat to the capital to demand reparations for their injuries.

Downtown Dream

Five people in a Rust Belt town struggle to reinvent their lives and their dreams in contemporary America.

Drag Invasion

Invasión drag

Documentary Peru

In 2017, the queens of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' hit Lima, Peru, igniting monthly sold-out parties, sparking transformation in a conservative society.

Dragonflies

Libélulas

Drama, Fiction Spain

With no job and no future, Alex and Cata spend their lives dreaming of the day they can leave their town together.

Draw Me Saint-Exupery

On the 31st of July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea. With this mystery, a myth was born. Who was the man whose book The Little Prince was translated into more than 250 languages and dialects?

Drawing the Tiger

Shot over seven years, DRAWING THE TIGER takes a sweeping view of one Nepalese family’s daily struggle to survive off of subsistence farming.

Dream Girls

DREAM GIRLS offers a compelling insight into gender and sexual identity and the contradictions experienced by Japanese women today.

Dreamcatcher

Sundance award winner DREAMCATCHER takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking, laying bare the hidden violence that devastates the lives of the young women involved.

Dreamers

United States

Young undocumented people in the USA are called Dreamers. Carlos is one of them

Dreaming of a Tree House

An exploration of the design and philosophy behind a 20 year-old experimental, ecological collective housing project in the center of Berlin.

Dreamland

Takes a sharp but disarming approach in examining the romance of gambling, and reveals the decidedly unromantic reality.

Dreams

Rêves

France

How do you imagine the future? What do you want to dream about? During a rough school year, 14-year-old students talk about their teenage life, limited by an unprecedented health crisis.

Dreams Rewired

Tilda Swinton's narration and a treasure trove of rare archival footage trace the origins of today's hyper-connected world.

Dreams and Dilemmas (40 minute version)

Follows a couple and their premature twins during six months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as it explores ethical dilemmas raised by advances in neonatal medicine.

Dreams and Dilemmas

Follows a couple and their premature twins during six months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as it explores ethical dilemmas raised by advances in neonatal medicine.

Dreams from the Outback

An honest and loving look at Australian's indigenous, beautifully filmed and fiercely proud.

Dreams of Chonta

Documentary, Musical Colombia, United States

Diego, an Afro-Colombian musician, leaves his family behind on the Pacific Coast of Colombia, and endures a solitary life as an undocumented immigrant and a minimum wage job at a cemetery all to become an ambassador of his music and culture in NY.

Dreamtime

Art and Ritual as Transformative Tools: Women as agents of change.

Driftless: Stories from Iowa

Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.

Drones In My Backyard

How comfortable should Americans be with the growing use of drones by all segments of society?

Drowning Letters

Cartas mojadas

Documentary Spain

An urgent and necessary film to understand one of the most tragic chapters in contemporary history; the migratory crisis taking place across the Mediterranean Sea in search for European shores.

Drowning by Bullets

Exposes the massacre, cover-up, and the years of denial of what was undoubtedly one of the darkest nights in the history of France.

Drux Flux

Inspired by Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, a fast-paced animation of images critiquing industrialization.

Dry Days In Dobbagunta

Literacy program spurs anti-liquor campaign in rural India and empowers women.

Duo

Dúo

Drama, Experimental Spain, Spain, Argentina, France, Chile

Set against the backdrop of the Argentine and Chilean Andes, Duo follows two seasoned dancers at personal and professional crossroads.

Dying for Gold

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present.

Dying to Divorce

By sharing three women’s intimately personal stories, DYING TO DIVORCE takes viewers into the heart of Turkey’s gender-based violence crisis and the recent political events that have severely eroded democratic freedoms.

Día de Los Muertos

Documentary, Musical United States

Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, has spent her life defying her conservative culture's contempt for independence and unconventionality.

Ecosophia

Australia

Ecosophia explores the interrelation between energy, the economy, resources, population, psychology, spirituality, the limits to growth and climate change.

Edges of Perception

Eleven-year-old Jessica copes with Stargardt's, an inherited form of macular degeneration.

Education and Nationalism

Documents the Japanese government’s re-writing of textbooks and education to support their political point of view.

Edvard Munch: The Scream of Life

World renowned for his painting The Scream – now a universal symbol of anguish, Edvard Munch is a painter of emotions, which he was able to express with unparalleled power. The film explores his work through the prism of nature.

Edward Said: The Last Interview

An extended discussion with noted literary critic and Palestinian activist Edward Said filmed less than a year before his death.

Egg Cream

The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans.

Egg and Stone

El Eternauta´s Wife

La mujer de El Eternauta

Documentary Argentina, Spain

Elsa y su ballet

Documentary Argentina

At 87, Elsa Agras directs ballet, doing almost everything (choreography, costumes, and lighting) in rehearsals that go on for months searching for perfection, and for passion.

Elsewhere Part I

Part I. An epic journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st Century.

Elsewhere Part II

Part II. An epic journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st Century.

Encounter

Encuentro

Drama, Fiction Mexico

A sudden event will draw an unexpected path between Arcelia, an elderly lady, and the young Julian.

Encounters with Grief

Moving perspectives on coping with the death of loved ones, and the process of recovery

End of the Dialogue

A landmark film that was one of the first to reveal the full horrors of apartheid to the world.

Ending Disease

Establishes that we are in a historical time in medicine, where regenerative medicine is changing therapies from treatments to cures. The film takes the viewer through a powerful emotional journey as it weaves human stories of patients and their doctor working together on the frontier of medical science.

Enemies of Happiness

The first Afghan woman ever to enter parliament, Malalai Joya is followed during her campaign to introduce democracy to a country long ruled by warlords and Taliban.

How climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world's most endangered species, North America's most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both.

Epilepsy: The Untold Story

'This program focuses on people who experience complex partial seizures, and whose symptoms are frequently misdiagnosed as psychiatric or emotional disorders.'

Erasing Hate

A remarkable story of transformation and redemption, Erasing Hate tells the journey of Bryon Widner out of the world of race hatred. The painful process of removing his extensive white power tatoos is just the outward sign of his inner transformation.

Erasing The Border

Documentary Mexico, United States

Mexican American artist Ana Teresa Fernández imagines a creative way to make the US-Mexico border wall disappear.

Escape from Affluenza

Simple living and its rewards.

Escuela

ESCUELA is a clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining employment.

Estación catorce

Drama, Fiction, Adventure Mexico, Uruguay

Over the course of just a few days, Luis discovers the world at the age of 7. Violence touches his environment and triggers the first encounter with death, the discovery of his father's fragility and the learning of masculinity in his vulnerable world.

Eternal Amazon

Amazônia eterna

Documentary Brazil

A critical analysis of how the world’s largest tropical rainforest is understood and utilized. The film asks whether it is possible for humans to make sustainable use the Amazon by featuring nine successful projects that directly benefit the local population and foster good economic partnerships.

Eternal Harvest

Eternal Harvest introduces Laotians who lived through the Vietnam-era U.S. bombing campaign and those who live with bombs in their fields today. The film features local and foreign experts who explain the scope and hazards of the problem as well as how unexploded ordinance (UXO) is removed safely.

Eternity Has No Door of Escape

Brings viewers to the places and institutions in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium where the history of "Outsider Art" unfolded and continues to unfold today.

Eva menos Candela

Romance, Drama, Fiction Colombia

Eva and Candela come together two years after their relationship's end. While it appears that they have moved on, they still have unfinished business.

Ever Green

For almost 40 years, partners Marianne Edain and Steve Erickson have worked continually to retain the rural character and ecological diversity of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, north of Seattle, through their organization Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN).

Everybody Leaves

Todos se van

Drama, Fiction, Romance Colombia, Cuba

A celebration of freedom and a confrontation of the authoritarian Cuban regime of the 1980s, which led to one of the country’s worst economic crises. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Cuban writer Wendy Guerra.

Everything Else (Todo lo Demás)

An “observational narrative” which is a mesmerizing contemplation on solitude.

Evolution of Organic

The story of organic agriculture, told by those in California who built the movement.

A new look at history that re-shapes the Middle East conflict.

Exiled

Two military veterans, both green card immigrants willing to die for America, get deported.

Exiles

Exilios

Documentary Spain, Mexico

Exiles reveals the lives of three artists who fled the Spanish Civil War to reinvent themselves in Mexico, making an impact on art and culture.

Exit: Leaving Extremism Behind

A former right-wing extremist explores why people join hate groups and what makes them decide to leave.

Exodus

Diana Ortiz spent over half her life in prison for a crime she committed when she was a teenager. Now 45, she has turned her life around and works to help other inmates rebuild their lives.

Exploitation Hotel: The Kellys

Hotel Explotación: Las Kellys

Documentary Spain

An analysis of the hotel employment crisis on the Baleric Islands, where chambermaids are paid less than 2 euros to clean a room.

Extra Terrestres

Extra terrestres

Comedy, Drama, Fiction, Romance Venezuela, Puerto Rico

Teresa, an astrophysicist, goes back to her family in Puerto Rico to invite them to her wedding. This is not an easy task after years of tension, but a star 2.5 million light years away will help to bring them all together again.

Eye of the Storm

The opening of a nickel and copper mine upsets the traditional life of Nain, a remote Inuit community of the coast of Labrador.

F.A.S.: When the Children Grow Up

When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol, she can do irreparable harm to her baby. This program explores the realities of living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

FALN

A remarkable time capsule of Venezuelan political and social history, and valuable background to the ongoing social conflicts in that country.

Fabrizio's Initiation

El inicio de Fabrizio

Comedy, Romance, Fiction Argentina

Fabrizio is looking forward to the first time with his girlfriend. With ease and humor, Mariano Biasin contrasts the double standards of parents with adolescent sexual awakening.

Facebook's 'Adorno Changed My Life'

In the hyper-connected isolation of social networks names become tags, words are links, and interfaces are never innocent.

Faces of Harassment

Created in the wake of the #MyFirstHarassment hashtag that swept across Brazil and shot in a mobile storytelling van, this film is a radical experiment in storytelling about trauma.

Facing Death

A comprehensive look into the life and work of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, author of the landmark On Death and Dying.

Faith

Denmark

How far does faith take you as a child, or in a cult?

Faith Love Desire - Ep 1 - First Love

Intimate beliefs as told by practicing Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists from six countries. Part 1 focuses on first love in a variety of religions.

Faith Love Desire - Ep 2 - Fulfilled Love

Intimate beliefs as told by practicing Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists from six countries. Part 2 focuses on finding fulfillment in love and marriage.

Faith Love Desire - Ep 3 - Forbidden Love

Intimate beliefs as told by practicing Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists from six countries. Part 3 focuses on the sexual taboos of various religions.

Faith and Fury

Fé e fúria

Documentary Brazil

Focusing on evangelical drug dealers in Brazilian slums, the film depicts the rise and power of the evangelical faith and its power in Brazil today.

False Confessions

Defense attorney Jane Fisher-Byrialsen exposes the dark side of the American justice system.

Familiar Tale

Relato familiar

Documentary Mexico

Drama, Fiction Spain, United States

Four teenagers proud of their Moroccan-Spanish background will see their self-confidence and friendship tested on the 18th birthday of one of them.

Fat or Skinny?

The people of India are faced with a choice: indulge in a Western-style fast food diet, or embrace healthy and indigenous alternatives.

Fat, Bald, and Short Man

Gordo, calvo y bajito

Fiction, Drama, Comedy, Animation Colombia

Antonio believed his failures were due to his looks: he is bald, short, and fat. When a fatter, balder, and shorter but successful notary joins the office, he has to face his fears.

Fate of a Salesman

An intimate portrait of a way of life on the verge of disappearing.

Father to Son

Finland

The relationship between fathers and sons through four generations of one family.

Father's Kingdom

He changed the course of civil rights in the US and you never heard his name.

Father, Son and Holy War: Hero Pharmacy

A film about men, religion and violence.

Father, Son and Holy War: Trial by Fire

A film about men, religion and violence.

Father’s Chair

A busca

Drama, Fiction Brazil

Theo is a successful doctor in the wealthy suburbs of São Paulo. Having always placed his job before his family, he is a failure as both a father and husband. But when his 15-year-old son disappears, selling all of his belongings and leaving town on a newly acquired black stallion, Theo goes to great lengths not only to find his son, but to rediscover himself.

Favela Farm

In Brazil can Pedro build a Life App to help the secret world of urban farms and gardens in Rio's shanty towns?

Fearless

Sin miedo

Documentary Mexico, Spain, Guatemala

A group of relatives of people disappeared during the Guatemalan military dictatorship requested and obtained, among many other measures of compensation, the production of a documentary film describing the events by the State. Fearless is an exploration of the current shapes of our memory (individual and collective).

Fed-up

Harta

Drama, Fiction Spain

Fidel, niño valente

Documentary Argentina, Paraguay

A Paraguayan migrant, Fidel rides a horse deep in the Argentine jungle. Wearing Maradona’s iconic number 10 jersey, he sets out on a quest to earn money and support his mother.

Fidelandia: Behind the Curtain of Cuba's Revolution

Documentary Cuba, United States

Documentary Venezuela, Puerto Rico

Drama, Fiction Spain, Mexico

In Oaxaca, Finlandia explores the lives of Muxes, a Zapotec third-gender community, weaving themes of identity, resilience, and cultural authenticity.

Fire Will Come

Amador Coro has been condemned for having provoked a fire. When he gets out of prison, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his mother, Benedicta, and their three cows. Life goes by, following the rhythm of nature. Until one night when a fire starts to devastate the region.

Fire in the Andes

Tells the story of the conflict in Peru which left over 10,000 dead or 'disappeared.' through an investigation into the killings of eight journalists.

First Born

Primero de la familia

Drama, Fiction, Comedy Chile

Tomás, about to leave for school in Europe, faces a flooded house in Chile, exposing the true dynamics of his family in a smelly ordeal.

First Passion

Largely overlooked by historians and film buffs, the curious 1912 epic 'From the Manger to the Cross' depicted the life of Jesus.

First Vote

Asian American voters in battleground states.

Fishing: In the Sea of Greed

Documents the response of one fishing community in India to the “rape and run” industries that have begun to dominate their livelihood and decimate their environment.

Five Days to Dance

Spain

As 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day, the US faces serious questions about the role of seniors in families, communities and society at large. Florida Water explores these issues through the parallel but divergent lives of two retired seniors.

Flower in Otomi

Tells the story of Deni Prieto Stock, killed by the Mexican army in 1973.

Flush

Drama, Fiction Brazil

When non-binary Sarah and cis-jock Tom find themselves accidentally locked in a college bathroom overnight, their contrasting worldviews collide.

Fly So Far

A grave warning of how far state control of women’s bodies can go, FLY SO FAR follows Teodora Vásquez, who was sentenced to thirty years in a Salvadorean prison after she suffered a stillbirth.

Flying People

The story of master kite flyer Rory Heap, blind from birth.

Focus

The extra challenges teenagers with learning disabilities face.

Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui

A powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui.

Following Nazarin

Tras Nazarín

Documentary Spain

Footprints of War - Nature Under Fire

Germany

Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But world-famous bloggers Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are unafraid of their dictatorial regimes.

Foreign Soldier

Soldado estrangeiro

Documentary Brazil

Guatemala

From Ground Zero

Palestine, France, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar

¿Qué culpa tiene el tomate?

Documentary, Experimental Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Spain, Venezuela

Documentary Spain

2,237 people discovered in a mass grave in a Valencian town. It's been 80 years. Will there ever be justice?

Future of Mud

This is the story of Komusa Tenapo, master mason and heir to the secrets of Djenne architecture, the traditional use of mud in Malian buildings.

G is for Gun

Explores both sides of the highly controversial trend of arming teachers and staff in America's K-12 schools.

GRAIN: Analog Renaissance

United States

Grain: Analog Renaissance explores the stories of those committed to using film in modern day photography.

Gabo & Cinema

Gabo y el cine

Documentary Mexico

A commendable and well documented contribution to the general study of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s cultural production. In the voice of his friends and accomplices, the documentary takes us beyond his literary figure and immerses us in his cinematic one.

Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The story of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nobel Prize winner.

Gaea Girls

A look at the tough world in which Japan's Gaea Girls pursue a career in the wrestling and the training regime that all must pass before becoming professional.

GAZA offers an enriching portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict.

Gaza Online

My Gaza Online

Norway, Palestine

Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly’s 2020 short film follows the interactions with friends and family back home in Gaza while living in exile in Northern Norway, not being able to return.

Gaza Sderot - Life in Spite of Everything

Palestine, Israel

Based on the multi-award-winning internet project on daily life in Gaza City in Palestine and Sderot in Israel, the film documents regular people in each town on the opposite side of the border over two months leading up to the 2008 Gaza War.

Gaza's Strawberry Fields

Palestine, Israel

The economy of Gaza is not ruled by law, but by the Occupation.

Geek Girls

Nerdy women - the "hidden half" of fan culture - open up about their lives in the world of conventions, video games, and other rife-with-misogyny pop culture touchstones.

Genaro

Drama, Classic, Fiction Colombia

Genaro delivers the bodies of paramilitaries killed in combat to their families. He's left cold, until he is tasked with finding a particular corpse.

Gene Boy Came Home

Eugene "Gene Boy" Benedict left the Odanak Indian Reserve at the age of 15; adrift at 17 he joined the U.S. Marines on a dare, and ended up in the midst of the Vietnam War. This moving film from Alanis Obomsawin traces his journey there, and back to Odanak.

George and Rosemary

George and Rosemary is an animated romantic comedy about two golden agers who prove that passion is not exclusively for the young.

Fiction, Comedy, Romance Spain

Recycling elements of surrealism and cubism, this animated short focuses on the relationship between art and war.

God

Dios

Documentary Chile

A cinematic mosaic depicting Pope Francis’ 2018 visit to Chile, God explores the constant tension between the social creation of God in different communities and the tensions that define modern-day Chilean society.

God Sleeps in Rwanda

Academy Award-Nominee GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA captures the spirit of five courageous women as they rebuild their lives, redefine women’s roles in Rwandan society and bring hope to a wounded nation.

Golda Maria

Searing first-person interview with a feisty Holocaust survivor.

Golden Age

Switzerland

Golden Age opens the doors to the Palace, a retirement home of a kind that you have never seen before, in Miami.

Golden Gate Girls

In GOLDEN GATE GIRLS author and professor S. Louisa Wei tells the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent woman director in Hong Kong in the 1930’s.

Good Manners

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.

Good Manners

As boas maneiras

Fiction, Comedy, Drama, Thriller Brazil

When lonely nurse Clara is hired as a nanny by wealthy Ana, she hardly expects the dark secrets which will engulf all that they hold dear.

Good White People

Gentrification hits an African-American community.

Goodbye Mubarak!

Egypt in the months leading up to the Tahrir Square demonstrations and a revolution already simmering under the surface.

Gorbachev. Heaven

Director Vitaly Mansky's portrait of the storied Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev wherein he presents his final testimony.

Goya: The Secret of the Shadows

Goya, el secreto de la sombra

Documentary Spain

Ramón, a fine art photographer, purchases an anonymous 19th-century portrait in Barcelona. He and the singular experts advising him believe that it is none other than a “Goya in the shadows.”

Grand Paris

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to turn Paris into the model super-metropolis for the 21st century, and plenty of world-class architects would like the job.

Great Expectations

A journey through innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture projects.

How women revolutionized the computing and Internet technology we use today.

Green Fire

Explores the life and legacy of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac) and his land ethic philosophy.

Green Screen Gringo

Documentary, Experimental The Netherlands

Behind a green screen, a foreigner finds his way in an enchanting, and yet turbulent, Brazil.

Greetings from Washington D.C.

Documents the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on October 14, 1979.

Grey City

Cidade cinza

Documentary Brazil

A new form of graffiti was in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The works of artists such as Os Gêmeos, Nunca, and Nina spread from city streets to art galleries and museums around the world. When City Hall implemented a law to “combat visual pollution”, a graffiti war against the local government is unleashed.

Greykey

Documentary Spain

Fear and fascination arise in Muriel Grey when she remembers her father, one of the only black survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Grief in America

A comprehensive look at how our culture deals with loss in all its forms.

Gringo Trails

A global survey of the impacts on cultures, economies, and the environment of the most powerful globalizing force of our time: tourism.

Grissinopoli

Grissinópoli

Documentary Argentina

When a bread stick company is abandoned by its owners due to bankruptcy, its sixteen workers make up their minds to occupy, live, and resist to save the company.

Groundswell Rising

Documents the opposition from both sides of the political spectrum to the ubiquitous practice of fracking for natural gas, and the health and environmental reasons behind it.

Grow Old Along With Me: The Poetry of Aging

Aging as an ongoing creative process.

Grrrl Justice

United States

A short narrative film, Grrrl Justice follows the stories of three characters – one being released from juvenile detention, another being exploited by a sex trafficker, and one navigating the school to prison pipeline.

Against the backdrop of BC's spectacular Great Bear Rainforest, Guardians and the salmon they monitor are victims of science censorship and reckless extractive industries.

Guardians of the Flame

Undeterred by prejudice, post-Katrina neglect, and appropriation of their traditions, the Harrison family guard their legacy, re-defining what Black masking culture means in New Orleans

Guardians of the Sea

Reveals the reality of the daily work of activists from an ocean defense organization, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Less publicized but still as committed to the fight against polluters and poachers, today they use methods of action that are very different from the forceful interventions of the past.

Guernica

Uses the famous painting by Picasso to bear witness to the atrocities of the Spanish civil war and fascism. An early short by Alain Resnais.

Guernica: The Last Exile

Guernica: El último exiliado

Documentary Spain

Picasso's 'Guernica' arrives in Spain, marking a pivotal moment in its democratic transition—a powerful story of art's enduring impact.

Guerrero

In the depths of the Sierra of Guerrero in Mexico, after the disappearance of the 43 students, we find the reaction of wounded civil society to seek an answer to the situation of abuse of authority mixed with poverty.

Guerrilla Grannies

Filmmaker Ike Bertels' portrait of three women veterans of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) offers an intimate view of Mozambique's history since its 1975 independence.

Guerrilla Voices: Humanizing War

Voces de guerrilla

Documentary Colombia, The Netherlands

After the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP in 2016, more than 200 guerrillas enter a demobilization camp where rebels prepare for a life without arms.

Guest House

The story of three women in a re-entry house as they battle addiction and recidivism.

Guests Always Return

Los invitados siempre vuelven

Drama, Fiction Spain

Laura and Miguel are a perfect couple. Who wouldn’t want to live in their house?

Home - El país de la ilusión

Documentary Colombia, Portugal

The Penn State abuse scandal: athletics, fandom, and campus sexual assault.

Harpoon

Arpón

Drama, Fiction Argentina, Venezuela

A high school principal known for his unconventional ways investigates suspected drug use in rebellious Cata, only to uncover a deeper, untold narrative.

Harry Dean Stanton - Partly Fiction

Switzerland

Italy

An investigation into Pharma's double standards in the First and Third Worlds.

Heart of Stone

A young boy escapes Afghanistan, traveling over 12,000 km alone to France and experiencing the terror and dangers of clandestine migration. Taken into the care of the child welfare services, a psychologist helps him to tame nightmares caused by abandon and poverty. The filmmakers follow his quest for a new life over 8 years, until he enters adulthood.

Heather Booth: Changing the World

Renowned organizer and activist Heather Booth began her remarkable career at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Through her life and work, this inspiring film explores many of the pivotal moments in progressive movements that altered our history over the last fifty years.

Hedgehogs Home

Hedgehog's unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts.

Heimat is a Space in Time

Exploring his family’s history over generations, director Thomas Heise confronts all the upheavals of 20th-century German history.

Helen

Drama, Fiction Brazil

The everyday life of a tenement seen through the eyes of Helen, a 9-year-old girl on a journey to save money to buy her grandmother a birthday present: a complete makeup set.

Helen Nearing

A moving portrait of the lives and deaths of homesteading authors, Helen and Scott Nearing.

Helena from Sarayaku

Helena Sarayaku Manta

Documentary Ecuador

Seventeen-year-old Helena Gualinga yearns to protect her Indigenous community from extractive development and the repercussions of climate change.

Austria

Young law students at Northwestern University in Chicago are trying to find evidence for the innocence of prisoners, whose cases even top American lawyers don't dare to tackle.

Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann

Germany

Follows the lives of two elderly Jewish residents of Czernowitz, in western Ukraine, focusing on their memories and experiences.

Hi-Ho Mistahey!

Fourteen-year-old Shannen Koostachin launched a campaign to build a suitable school for the children of the Cree community of Attawapiskat in 2008.

Hidden Letters

Two Chinese millennial women struggling with patriarchal culture work to save an ancient secret language created by women banned from reading or writing.

Hidden Wounds

Explores this painful reality of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the stories of three veterans and their struggles to overcome the trauma of their experiences.

Higher Grounds

Tells the story of how Panama is reimagining coffee, and driving new standards for both quality and economics

Highwater Trilogy

A short film that was part of the evening-length program "Shelter".

Hijab

Hiyab

Drama, Fiction Spain

The director of an institute tries to persuade a new pupil to remove her hijab but the young woman resists.

Hilda's Short Summer

Las vacaciones de Hilda

Drama, Fiction Brazil, Uruguay

Mi casa está en otra parte

Documentary, Animation Mexico, United States

Recommended by Alejandro González Iñárritu, this multi-award-winning animated story offers an intimate window into the hearts and minds of immigrant Latin youth. A powerful reminder of how the color of your passport determines your life.

Homecoming - Máhccan

Norway, Finland

The indigenous Saìmis finally get back their stolen ancestral heritage while filmmaker Suvi West recreates the outside image of the Saìmis for the wellbeing of the whole nation.

Honored by the Moon

In this upbeat and empowering film, Native American lesbians and gay men speak of their unique historical and spiritual role.

Honour of the Crown

François Paulette, senior negotiator for the Smith's Landing First Nation, is determined to see the Canadian government honor promises made in an 1899 treaty.

Hope

Follows artist Ken Paquette, his partner Winnie Peters and their five boys through a turbulent year of wrenching family change.

Hope on the Hudson

For many years, the Hudson River, like so many waterways across the U.S., was treated like an infinite waste barrel, a receptacle for poisonous chemicals, hazardous waste and trash of all descriptions.

Hopefuls

Aspirantes

Drama, Fiction Brazil

A young soccer player has to deal with the unexpected pregnancy of his girlfriend Karine, while his childhood best friend, Bento, signs a contract with a professional team.

Horizons

Horizontes

Documentary Cuba, Switzerland

Alicia Alonso’s splendor still radiates throughout the world of ballet today. A star so brilliant, she has captivated audiences worldwide. Even now at the age of ninety, she continues to encourage the dreams of young dancers who seek to follow in her footsteps.

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

After a century of films that exploited, caricatured, sidelined, and finally embraced them, HORROR NOIRE traces a secret history of Black Americans through their connection to the horror film genre.

Horses of Suffield

A chronicle of the emotional story of the environmental factors and decisions that spelled the end for Canada's largest herd of wild horses.

Horseshoe Crab Moon

Follows scientists and researchers as they study the decline of the Horseshoe Crab along the East coast and the crash of the Red Knot, a globe trotting sandpiper whose numbers have dropped nearly 80%. This is an inspiring story of the scientist and field biologist's successful efforts to connect an ancient ecosystem with the interconnected relationship of the moon, tides, Horseshoe crabs and sandpipers.

Hotel Terminus - Part I

Denmark

El pueblo soy yo: Venezuela en populismo

Documentary Mexico, Venezuela

In a world increasingly less transparent, where the shortcut of populism lurks to endanger democracies, I Am The People: Venezuela Under Populism compels us to ask ourselves if any society, however stable, can be considered invulnerable to a populist irruption and its consequences. Populism isn’t an ideology. It’s a way of governing.

I Cannot Tell You How I Feel

Filmmaker Su Friedrich moves her fiesty mother into an "independent living" facility.

I Didn't See You There

Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on spectacle, (in)visibility, and the corrosive legacy of the freak show

I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman

Explores the filmmaker's 40 plus films and charts the sites of her peregrinations.

I Don't Feel Anything Anymore

Two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they go about their daily business. But the world below needs them...

I Girl

Yo niña

Drama, Fiction Argentina

Based on the director’s autobiographical experiences, I Girl follows Armonía, a little girl who lives in the desolated landscapes of Argentina’s south with her hippie parents.

I Had An Abortion

Powerful and fiercely honest, I HAD AN ABORTION tackles the taboo of discussing abortion.

I Like Girls

Animated stories of first love.

I Owe You a Letter About Brazil

Fico te devendo uma carta sobre o Brasil

Documentary Brazil

An investigation into the persistence of silence as a tool to erase memory in Brazil.

I Talk to Animals

Samantha is an "animal therapist and psychic" who has convinced skeptical pet owners, zoo keepers, and race horse trainers that she really can "talk" to their animals.

I Travel Because I Have to I Come Back Because I Love You

Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo

Documentary, Experimental, Romance, Fiction Brazil

In this award-winning and hauntingly melancholic film, geologist José Renato travels to Sertão, an isolated region in Northeastern Brazil, to assess possible routes for a canal. For many, the canal will be a source of hope, but for those living on its direct course it only means requisitions, departure, and loss.

I Will be Murdered

Documentary, Thriller Spain, United Kingdom

I Will Be Murdered is a gripping, edge-of-your seat documentary that portrays the astonishing, real-life story of a lawyer who launched a personal crusade in search of justice, and brought his country to the brink of chaos.

I Won't Go

Oli Truss is an eccentric ex-headmistress in her 90's and her story brings home the complex issues of self-neglect, competence and capacity, and the right to live and die at home with dignity.

I Wonder What You Will Remember Of September

Cecilia Cornejo presents a haunting personal response to the events of September 11, 2001, informed and complicated by her status as a Chilean citizen living in the U.S

I am from Chile

I Am From Chile

Comedy, Drama, Fiction Chile

A coming of age story, I Am From Chile draws from the director’s personal experiences to tell a different kind of immigration story.

Never before have the children of criminals been punished for the crime of their parents: the children of French jihadists are a textbook case.

Focuseson the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. Following the recent construction of a monument dedicated to Fascist general Rodolfo Graziani, the film addresses the unpunished war crimes he and others committed in the name of Mussolini’s imperial ambitions.

If Only Night Wouldn't Fall

The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium

To prevent anxiety and optimize their wellbeing, an increasing number of people across the Western world use data technology. But what is actually measured when collecting data about our mental state, and what gets lost in this quest for our optimal selves?

If This Ain't Heaven

An intimate portrait of a ordinary man who fulfills unknowingly his own ideal of the ventriloquist artist.

If You Can Ever Get Back

US army combat medics who served in Iraq's “triangle of death" struggle to find their place in the civilian world and to lay to rest their wartime ghosts

Drama, Fiction, Romance Chile

Denmark

The real-life story of Steven, a former child soldier from Uganda, who after a terrible sequence of events - including imprisonment, torture, escape, and the death of his wife and son - reached Denmark as a UNHCR refugee.

In Bed With Ulysses

Racing against impending blindness, a monomaniacal genius feeds off his own love life to create a novel he hopes will change the art form of fiction forever. And James Joyce got his way, but at an enormous price. The feature length documentary "In Bed With Ulysses" tells the provocative story of how the novel that is widely considered the greatest work of modern fiction was created.

In Bed with an Elephant

Using archival film footage, this hour-long documentary provides a gripping retrospective of United States-Canada relationships as personified by successive…

In Between

Aquí estamos

Documentary Spain

Examining the legal and moral dimensions of migrant camps in the Canary Islands, including legislation, health care, and geopolitical factors.

In Exile: A Family Film

Un exilio: película familiar

Documentary Mexico

In Exile: A Family Film tells some of the personal accounts that are intertwined with the shared history of Spain and Mexico from the time of Spanish King Alfonso XIII (1874-1923) through the present.

In Harmony

An injured equestrian stuntman (Albert Dupontel) develops a bond with his insurance agent (Cécile De France).

In Havana

Documentary The Netherlands

A documentary on chocolate and people who love it.

In a Foreign Land

En tierra extraña

Documentary Spain

The film portrays the experience of intra-European exile tackled by Spain’s highest-profile female director, Icíar Bollaín (Even the Rain, Take My Eyes).

In a Whisper

A media voz

Documentary Spain, France, Switzerland, Cuba

Filmmakers and best friends since childhood, both part of the Cuban diaspora, share how they found themselves and each other in a foreign land.

In the Ashes of the Forest (Part 1)

Saga of two colonists in the Amazon rainforest.

In the Ashes of the Forest (Part 2)

Concludes the Amazon colonists' saga.

In the Best Interests of the Children

This groundbreaking film on lesbian mothering portrays the diversity of experience, race and class among eight lesbian mothers and their children.

In the Billowing Night

Lev la tèt dann fenwar

France, Réunion

A retired workman, who has lived in Mâcon, France, since emigrating from Reunion Island at the age of 17, recounts his story to his daughter for the first time.

In the High School

En el instituto

Drama, Fiction Spain

Añil

Documentary El Salvador, Mexico

Three young actresses recreate testimonies of Salvadoran civil war sexual assault victims in a fable guided by the history of Indigo.

Indochina War, The Untold Story: Part 1

For the first time ever, this exceptional documentary aims to recount the entirety of a forgotten conflict: the first Indochina War fought between France and Việt Minh from 1946-1954.

Indochina War, The Untold Story: Part 2

It was the 20th century’s most violent war of decolonization. From 1940 to 1954, the jewel in the crown of France’s colonial empire was on fire. The French colonizer and Communist Viet Minh turned the Indochinese peninsula into a blazing inferno that blew away an entire population, an entire world. Each and every bomb, each and every round of ammunition masked military aid from major Western and Communist powers for whom winning the conflict had become a high stakes objective for the next stage of the Cold War…

Infernal Dolls

Muñecos infernales

Fiction, Thriller, Science Fiction, Classic Mexico

In this remastered Mexican classic, four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple.

Infiltrators

With a raw, observational style, Infiltrators follows successive attempts by Palestinians to cross the 20 foot high wall that separates the Occupied Territories from Israel.

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World

Indigenous perspectives on environmental stewardship and resilience in a changing world

Ink & Linda

He's in his twenties. She's in her seventies. Together, they are changing the face of street art

Inner Borderlines

Visions of America Through the Eyes of Alejandro Morales

Documentary Spain

Eight teens at Innalik school in a remote town in northern Quebec document their pivotal final year of high school.

Invasion: A Diary of Panama's U.S. Invasion

Invasion: A Diary of Panama's U.S. invasion

Documentary Panama

The invasion of Panama by the U.S on Christmas and New Year of 1989 – when American troops deposed dictator Manuel Noriega, killing an unknown number of civilians in the process- serves as an excuse to explore how a people remember, transform, and often forget their past in order re-define their identity and become who they are today.

Invented Before You Were Born

We can't hide from history.

Inventing Tomorrow

Young scientists from Indonesia, Hawaii, India, and Mexico tackle some of the most complex environmental issues facing humanity today

Investigation of a Flame

An intimate look at the Catonsville Nine who on May 17, 1968 walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and incinerated them with homemade napalm.

Invisible Frontliners

Switzerland

A tender yet radical tale of those who make sure society’s basics keep working even in time of crises, proudly and pragmatically told by the caretakers themselves.

Invoking Justice

In Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male bodies which apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women to be present, even to defend themselves.

Iom Romi

Iom Romì (A Day In Rome) chronicles a day in the life of the contemporary Jewish community of Rome, which for centuries has lived in limbo between persecution and integration.

Iraq's Lost Generation

International Emmy Award-winner is an unprecedented investigation into a generation of young victims of the war against the Islamic State.

Iraqi Kurdistan

Right after the fall of Saddam Hussein, in 2005, the Kurdish people in the northern region Iraq enjoyed stable lives for a short period of time. Iraqi Kurdistan takes us into daily life there, and celebrates the beauty of peace.

Ironland

Lavra

Documentary Brazil

A geographer returns to Minas Gerais after a mining disaster, exposing the region’s history of exploitation and the human cost of resource extraction.

Is It the Right Time? The Nursing Home Decision

Following up on More Than a Thousand Tomorrows, Is It the Right Time deals with the tough decision of nursing home placement

Documentary, Series Spain

Isaac and Nora travel to Chile and explore its rich musical traditions, including la cueca. They travel back to Madrid where they close the tour at the Teatro Circo Price.

Island Earth

Facing the destructive forces of modern agriculture, a handful of Hawaiians seek to use the wisdom of their ancestors to make Hawaii a beacon of hope for an uncertain future.

Island Green

Prince Edward Island off of Canada's north Atlantic coast is famous for its potato crop. Could the island go entirely organic?

Islas Hermanas

Ometepe, Nicaragua, and Bainbridge Island near Seattle work together for a better life for both communities.

Isosceles

Isósceles

Comedy, Romance, Fiction Spain

An unusual reunion between old friends becomes a dramatic and comic portrait of love and friendship.

Israelism

United States

Now available! Two American Jews travel to Israel seeking to understand the country they were raised to love and discover that the reality doesn't match their expectations.

It Is Not Over Yet

Denmark, Germany

The story of a controversial, loving new treatment of people with dementia.

It Was Rape

Jaffa: A Guide to Gentrification

Israel

Tel Aviv-Jaffa is the most expensive city in the world. Is it the free market, or gentrification?

Jaguar

A playful film that finds three African men performing an ethnography of their own culture.

Jaha's Promise

Gambia, United States

An in-depth look at the charismatic and controversial sociologist, professor and best-selling author Jean Ziegler and his endless belief in socialism

Jerusalem Cuts

Israel, Switzerland

Three different narratives of Israel’s 1948 war of independence unfold side by side through the images of a British photojournalist, a Zionist movie producer, and a Palestinian photographer.

Jesus Politics

A personal investigation into the role of religion in American politics, and specifically the 2008 presidential election.

Jinpa

Pema Tseden’s new film: on the path of life, sometimes we meet someone whose dreams overtake our own to the point that they converge.

Joaquín Sorolla: Journeys of the Light

Joaquín Sorolla: viajes de la luz

Documentary Spain

Several years in the life of Joy Womack, the first American to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s main training program, and the first American woman to sign a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet

Juan of the Witches

Juan de las Brujas

Documentary Mexico, United States

An homage to 82-year-old Juan Medellín, a founding member of Mexico City's prestigious Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernández.

Judith Butler

An up-close and personal encounter with this influential philosopher and gender theorist.

Julia Scotti: Funny That Way

The moving, funny, and triumphant comeback story of trans comedian, Julia Scotti, “the crazy old lady of comedy”

Julie on the Line

United States

Frank and harrowing testimony of the horrific sexual slavery and wartime experiences of the Karayuki-San, Japanese girls and women were trafficked out of Japan as indentured prostitutes.

Karen

Drama, Fiction Spain

An intimate late-African portrait of Danish colonist Karen Blixen, author of "Out of Africa".

Karina's Suit

El traje de Karina

Drama, Fiction Colombia

Muete, a deserter from an armed group, visits his cousin Karina, a transgender sex worker with whom he shares a past.

Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor

An exploration of the life and work of Karl Polanyi, who sought to reintegrate society and economy. Could the commodification of labor and money ultimately be as disastrous as floods, drought and earthquakes?

Keepers of the Future

Following El Salvador's civil war, a farmers' cooperative puts down roots, builds resilience and provides a model of how to mitigate climate change and resist unsustainable, extractive development.

Kenbe La: Until we Win

Set in the lush Haitian countryside as well as the icy landscapes of Quebec, Will Prosper’s documentary Kenbe la: Until We Win chronicles the inspiring journey of Alain Philoctète, an artist and activist who dreams of developing a permaculture project in his native country even as he fights an ongoing battle with cancer.

Micmac and Maliseet artists discuss their work in a revealing look at native art and spirituality in Atlantic Canada.

Kyiv Theater: An Island of Hope

France

Arlane Mnouchkine, the founder of the Théâtre du Soleil, travels to Ukraine to work with actors as an act of solidarity during the Russian invasion.

La Americana

The immigration debate gains a human face in this intimate cinema-vérité tale of Carmen's dangerous and illegal journey from Bolivia to New York in hopes of earning enough to support her ailing daughter back home.

La Bonga

Two decades after a death threat caused the Afro-Colombian community of La Bonga to flee, the townspeople embark on a symbolic journey through the jungle to resurrect a home that exists only in their memories

La Chiperita: By the Road

La chiperita

Comedy, Fiction, Romance Paraguay

A box office success in Paraguay, La Chiperita: By The Road speaks to us of love in different ways: the impossible love that might come true, the love of family and friends, but most importantly, the importance of doing things with love.

La Commune (Paris 1871) Part 1

Part 1 of the most recent film by Peter Watkins. Based on a thorough historical research into the Paris Commune of 1871, this film leads to an inevitable reflection about the present.

La Commune (Paris 1871) Part 2

Part 2 of the most recent film by Peter Watkins. Based on a thorough historical research into the Paris Commune of 1871, this film leads to an inevitable reflection about the present.

La soledad

Drama, Fiction Venezuela, Canada, Italy

Handyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a ramshackle villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. Might a fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?

In Lightbyrinth, 21st-century digital technology meets 19th-century animation in homage to eminent physicist James C. Maxwell.

Labor Wars of the Northwest

United States

Chronicles the cauldron of worker discontent, radicalism and violence that permeated the the Pacific Northwest in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr Leonard Cohen

Produced in 1965, this is an informal portrait of the Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter, Leonard Cohen. He is seen reading his poetry to a rapt audience and also alone, or relaxing with family and friends.

Ladies in Waiting

A profile of the Kitambo maternity clinic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing the pressures of economic forces on health care delivery in poor countries.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Veteran director Marc Allegret’s philosophical and restrained adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s sexually explosive novel, the first time it was ever brought to film.

Lagos / Koolhaas

Renowned architect Rem Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City explore Lagos, Nigeria, interpreting the chaotic city in an innovative, surprising way.

Lake Los Angeles

Drama United States

A middle-aged Cuban man and a ten-year-old Mexican girl bond over being away from home in the hopeless back-drop that is Lake Los Angeles.

Lake Superior Our Helper

The film follows Chief Sayers through a series of discussions with community members that explore the underlying social and ecological approaches of Batchewana's fisheries as well as perspectives about its history, current practices, and future directions.

Land of My Children

Im Land Meiner Kinder

Documentary Germany, Switzerland

A tender-ironic road movie that traces Darío Aguirre's intertwined journey from the country of his fathers to the country of his children.

Land or Death

Sweden

After the Colombian government and the FARC signed a peace agreement in 2016, there was hope that the five decade-long armed conflict had come to an end. Instead, Colombia has become one of the world’s deadliest places for land rights defenders.

Landfall

Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, Landfall examines a ruined world at the brink of transformation, spinning a cautionary tale for our times.

Landfall

Documentary United States

A journey of healing and resilience, delving into the power of reconnection and overcoming the lingering effects of mother-child separation at the border.

Landless

Chão

Documentary Brazil

LATE SUMMER captures a centuries-old Beijing theatre in its incarnation as a modern-day transient space.

Le Crabe-Tambour

A squadron commander suffering from an incurable illness searches for an old comrade from Southeast Asia, the "Crabe-Tambour".

Le Joli Mai

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's legendary portrait of Paris and Parisians at the close of the Algerian war.

Le Navire Night

Marguerite Duras investigates new possibilities for the cinematic form by drawing out relationships between people who never actually meet.

Le Spectre de Boko Haram

The Spectre of Boko Haram

Cameroon, France

In the village of Kolofata in Cameroon, Mohamed, Ibrahim and Falta — indirect victims of Boko Haram — attempt to create a new future for themselves.

Leading Actor

El actor principal

Drama, Fiction Mexico, Argentina

Luis, an amateur actor, forgoes his movie premiere at a renowned festival to be with Azra, a chambermaid from Albania with an enigmatic scar.

Leaps of Faiths

Love tests faith. Faith tests love. Interfaith marriage - how does that work?

Learning to Hear

Explores the lives of two deaf women who have learned to function in a hearing society, both before and after the life-changing operation that enables them to recover their hearing

Returning Iraq veteran Ross Graydon copes with the challenges of life back in the U.S., with his new prosthetic arm.

Leftover Women

Modern Chinese women juggle love life with careers in a society that frowns on singlehood

Leftovers

A love story about the unforeseen trajectory of lives lived outside the mainstream told through the 2000 snapshots left behind.

Leila Khaled: Hijacker

Sweden

Leila Khaled was the first woman in the world to hijack an aircraft. As a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP, she hijacked an American Boeing 707 in 1969.

Lemebel

Writer, artist and pioneer of the queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up Chilean society during Pinochet’s dictatorship.

Les Enfants Terribles

In Turkey, Mahmut and Zeynep are two siblings who clash with their parents while pushing back against the familial expectations to marry young.

Lessons for Luca

Documentary The Netherlands

In this mesmerizing family saga, a personal story is inseparably intertwined with the history of Cuba when a farmer gets a six-year sentence for selling his own cow.

Lest We Forget: Silent Voices

Documenting the least-known part of the civil rights movement, these are the first-person stories of people with developmental disabilities labeled 'mentally defective' who were sent away to state institutions.

Let It Burn

Diz a ela que me viu chorar

Documentary Brazil

Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Al Haya Helwa

Norway, Palestine

Stuck in the arctic of Norway, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly insists on telling heartfelt stories from his hometown Gaza

Life is not a Competition, but I'm Winning

Germany

A radical utopia far from the rigid gender rules in competitive sports.

Life to Come

Belgium

The survival of newborn twins who were born too early, tangible and surreal.

Light Falls Vertical

Ara la llum cau vertical

Documentary Spain, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands

Efthymia Zymvragaki weaves the story of a perpetrator with her own experiences with violence, offering insight into the complexity of abuse.

Light is Calling

A meditation on the random and fleeting nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an ancient film.

Lightborne

Alumbramiento

Fiction, Drama

A family faces the last night of its eldest member, showing their different ways of dealing with the end of life.

Like Any Other Kid

Follows the intimate relationships between incarcerated youth and staff who use love and structure to guide and teach youth offenders how to take responsibility for themselves.

Lip

Effectively highlights with familiarity and humor the disturbing realization of how Black characters and white characters still interact on screen, under Hollywood’s eternally backwards eye.

Liquid Truth

Aos teus olhos

Drama, Fiction Brazil

An incisive look at the dangers of selfies and social media culture and how they can be used (or misused) to expose and taint a person’s character.

Liquor Store Dreams

A portrait of two second generation Korean Americans trying to create their own future by honoring their parent's past through understanding and healing.

Lisbon and WWII

Portugal managed to get through all of World War II without firing a single shot.

Little Big Girls

Explores the phenomenon of early-onset puberty.

Little By Little

Jean Rouch brings his Nigerien collaborators to France to perform a reverse ethnography of late-1960s Parisian life.

Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege

Lebanon, France, Qatar

A filmed diary of the daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp – Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria and its besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.

Little Wound's Warriors

As Pine Ridge Indian Reservation faces the lasting effects of inter-generational trauma as well as a recent teen suicide epidemic, the voices of Little Wound High School students rise up in hope

Lives Visible

Lesbians in a box…two thousand private snapshots hidden away for over fifty years reveal the rich history of Chicago’s working class butch/fem life in the pre-Stonewall era.

Living Kultur

Documentary Spain

An imagined performance where dantzaris, artisans, and dragons are protagonists of a common story, materializing the immaterial Navarre.

Living Memory

About Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Exposes tensions in a society assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.

Living Thinkers

Examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today.

Living With The Past

Cairo is one of the few medieval cities in the world that remains relatively intact. This a portrait of Darb al-Ahmar, a neighborhood in the old city now facing a process of radical change.

Living the Good Life

A portrait of the daily life of America's most famous back-to-the-landers.

Lo 100to

Animation, Fiction Canada

A breakup announcement brings out the best, worst, and weirdest in a Salvadoran family.

Lobster War

An award-winning feature documentary about a conflict between the United States and Canada over 277 square miles of sea, known as the Gray Zone, traditionally fished by US lobstermen.

Login 2 Life

Profiles seven people who spend most of their lives in online virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft.

Lomax the Songhunter

Alan Lomax (1915-2002) traveled the world with his recording equipment, hunting for folk songs.

Lonely Boy

The story of popular singer Paul Anka.

Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini

Germany

When former pro swimmer Sara and her sister Yusra arrived in Germany from war-torn Syria they were Europe's most celebrated refugees. Now Sara is facing a 20-year prison sentence for volunteering with a Greek NGO, helping other refugees.

Long Story Short

Over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, adult literacy programs, and job training centers discuss their experiences of poverty.

Long Way Home

Temporada

Drama, Fiction Brazil

After moving to the town of Contagem in Brazil for a new job, Juliana waits for her husband to join her. As she waits for him, she tries to adapt to her new life while trying to overcome her past.

An ICIJ investigation reveals the secrets of the global fishing industry's last frontier and the fate of the jack mackerel.

Lords of the Arctic

The impact of climate change on the Arctic.

Los Hermanos/The Brothers

A nuanced view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family

Los Hongos

Fiction, Drama Colombia

During the day, street artists RAS and Calvin band together with other graffiti artists to paint a tribute to student demonstrators.

Los Lobos

Los lobos

Drama, Fiction Mexico

LOVE & DIANE is at its heart a highly charged story about a mother and daughter searching for love, redemption and hope for a new future.

Love & Mathematics

Amor y matemáticas

Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fiction Mexico

United States

A touching tribute to the pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, told through the lens and love of her partner of over 30 years.

Lovesick

A hopeful look at one doctor’s struggle to help HIV+ patients in India find love and meet societal expectations by playing marriage matchmaker.

Low Season

En temporada baja

Fiction, Comedy Spain

The lives of four men seem to be going through a low season. Due to harsh financial reasons they are forced to live at a campsite.

A dramatic film about the cost of an oil spill to a fishing village in the Philippines.

Luckey

A portrait of a family in crisis and one man's effort to create a new life in the wake of a devastating accident.

Lunch Love Community

Passion, creative energy and persistence come together when Berkeley advocates and educators tackle food reform and food justice in the schools and in the neighborhoods.

Lupe Under the Sun

A portrait of migrant farmworkers grappling with the faultlines of the American dream

Lyd

United States

The story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world – what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.

MANA - Beyond Belief

Feature-length visual essay on the power of objects. People, all people, all over the world have their own versions of mana, residing in their minds or in the objects themselves.

MSG: Mysterious Savory Grains

To share his culture through food, Chef Tim Ma must defy monosodium glutamate's unsavory reputation

MUÔI

A queer single mom navigates conservative Vietnamese culture to chase her dream of becoming a hip-hop dancer.

Machuca

Drama, Fiction, Classic Chile, Spain

Set in Santiago during the months leading up to Pinochet’s 1973 coup d’état, this modern classic tells the story of the unlikely friendship between two young boys from different backgrounds.

Made In India

About the human experiences behind the phenomena of 'outsourcing' surrogate mothers to India.

Made Over in America

In a culture where bodies seem customizable, how do we perceive body image, and how are desires for a better self influenced by reality television and the makeover industry?

Made in Thailand

In Thailand, women make up 90 percent of the labor force responsible for garments and toys for export by multinational corporations. This powerful, revealing documentary about women factory workers and their struggle to organize unions exposes the human cost behind the production of everyday items that reach our shores.

Magalí

Drama, Fiction, Adventure Argentina

Short but sweet look at the work of the renowned African artist whose photographs have documented social and cultural changes in Mali over a forty-year period.

Malintzin 17

Mexico

Two starving kids find a dead body in the ruins during the apocalypse. From Hu Bo

Man of the Crowd

O homem das multidões

Drama, Fiction Brazil

A Brazilian take on contemporary alienation, loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe story published in 1840.

Manuela

Drama, Fiction Argentina, Mexico

Documentary United States

An examination of the U.S. immigration system through the lives of two unforgettable protagonists whose lives reveal the human cost of deportation.

Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance

Highlights Sanger's pioneering strategies of using media and popular culture to advance the cause of birth control.

Margin

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.

Marguerite as She Was

A personal portrait of the great French writer Marguerite Duras. Made with home moves, archives, film extracts, readings, and television interviews filmed over many years.

Marguerite's Theorem

United States

A brilliant mathematics student at France's top university has her future derailed after an unexpected error in her thesis presentation. She decides to start life anew.

Marimbas From Hell

Las marimbas del infierno

Comedy, Fiction, Musical France, Mexico, Guatemala

Boldly exploring the boundaries of fiction and documentary, up-and-coming Guatemalan filmmaker Julio Hernández Cordón’s (Gasolina) original and entertaining second feature follows three unlikely characters from Guatemala City as they attempt to fuse improbable musical styles.

Marina Abramovic in Brazil: The Space in Between

Documentary Brazil

Marina Abramović travels through Brazil in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process.

Marina's Ocean

Marina não vai à praia

Drama, Fiction Brazil

A 15-year-old girl yearns to see the ocean, but her disability interferes. Unable to travel to the beach with her sister and friends, Marina strikes out on an adventure of her own.

Marinoni

Giuseppe Marinoni, champion cyclist and master bike craftsman, at age 75, is attempting the world hour record for his age group, on a bike he built with his own hands almost 40 years ago.

Marisa in the Woods

Marisa en los bosques

Fiction, Comedy Spain

A provincial builder falls in love with an alluring shopgirl, oblivious to her crowded romantic past or that she’s waiting for a local politician’s wife to die so she can marry rich.

Martírio

Documentary Brazil

Filmed over the course of 40 years, indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli seeks out the origins of the Guaraní Kaiowá genocide. A conflict of disproportionate forces: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guaraní Kaiowá against the powerful apparatus of agribusiness.

Marx Reloaded

A new exploration into the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis.

Marx for Beginners

Hilarious 7 minute animated introduction to Karl Marx's worldview.

Canada

La memoria y después

Documentary Argentina

After surviving the Holocaust, Sara emigrated to Argentina where she again survives intolerance and hatred after the disappearance of her son Daniel.

Men: A Love Story

After spending nearly a decade as a journalist documenting young women sold as slaves into the sex trade, award winning filmmaker Mimi Chakarova (THE PRICE OF SEX) sets out on a journey across the United States to explore how men feel about women and love.

Meow

Miau

Fiction Spain

Four desperately bored retired men yearn for excitement to make them feel alive. With nothing to lose, they embark on a mad, wild adventure resulting in a bizarre museum robbery.

Metal and Melancholy

Roving the city of Lima, Peru, Heddy Honigmann meets teachers, actors, professionals, civil servants and many others who have turned to taxi driving to earn enough to get by.

Michaëlle Jean: a Woman of Purpose

In 2005, Michaëlle Jean became the Governor General of Canada. A social activist, global citizen, and black woman, she would redefine the possibilities of that office

Fascinating look at pioneering natural birth doctor, Michel Odent.

Miguelito: A Song to Puerto Rico

Miguelito: canto a Borinquen

Documentary, Musical Colombia, Australia, Puerto Rico

Reminiscent of Searching for Sugar Man, the filmmaker follows the steps of Puerto Rico's child music sensation Miguelito. Featuring incredible archival footage of NYC in the 70s’ and salsa performances from Papo Lucca’s La Sonora Poncena, Malo Malo and many others, this is a film that celebrates the musical and cultural depth of the Caribbean.

Mikmaq Family

A reflective journey into the extended family of Nova Scotian Mi'kmaq society.

Milestones

A lilting, free-associative masterpiece that follows dozens of characters as they try to reconcile their ideals with the realities of American life.

Militiawomen: The Women Who Fought The Spanish Civil War

Milicianas

Documentary Spain

Militiawomen narrates the intense investigation to discover the identity of five militia-women executed in Mallorca in 1936. One picture and the existence of an anonymous journal, attributed to one of them, are the only clues. Is it possible, 80 years later, to discover the identity of those who remain silenced at the bottom of the graves?

Mille Gilles

The thought and ideas of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and his impact on creative work and communities around the world.

Mina's Recipe Book

Before dying of starvation in a concentration camp, Mina carefully recorded her favorite recipes, hoping they would somehow make it to her daughter overseas.

Mind Zone

MIND ZONE follows therapists with the 113th Army Combat Stress Control detachment as they carry out two conflicting missions: protecting soldiers from battle fatigue and keeping these same soldiers in the fight.

Mirages

Every day, thousands of miles from here, dozens of people are driven by an incredible sense of hope to set out with the intention of arriving in Europe. During the first few days of their crossing from Agadez to Djanet, from Niger into Algeria, these emigrants are forced to confront the time of the desert with its stases, its brutal accelerations and its mineral inertia. The ordeal they undergo turns them into undocumented immigrants.

Miriam Lies

Miriam miente

Drama, Fiction Spain, Dominican Republic

A biracial teenager struggles with questions of identity and acceptance in this delicate drama from the Dominican Republic, which sheds light on the prejudices of Caribbean society.

Miss Kiet's Children

In a Dutch classroom, refugee children learn alongside locals under Miss Kiet's firm but loving hand.

Missing in Brooks County

An intimate look at the migrant death crisis in a small Texas town.

Mitote / Mexican Ritual

A shaman’s mystical rituals, furious electricians on hunger strike and a euphoric football crowd collide in the Zocalo, Mexico City’s central square, the ancient ceremonial heart of the Aztec empire.

Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova

Miúcha, a voz da Bossa Nova

Documentary United States, Brazil, France

Unseen footage, rare recordings, and vibrant animations unveil the hidden story behind the Bossa Nova movement from Miucha’s distinctly female perspective.

MnM - Queer Futures

An exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community.

Mobile Harvest

In India can Sachin build a 'Life App' to help stem the tide of farmer suicides.

Mobutu, King of Zaire - Part 1

Part one of the definitive history and visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years.

Mobutu, King of Zaire - Part 2

Part two of the definitive history and visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years.

A very personal and poignant investigative journey to find out why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not labeled on food products in the United States and Canada.

Mohawk Girls

Filmmaker Tracey Deer left the Kahnawake Native reserve, eventually graduating from Dartmouth University. Now she has returned to explore with insight, humour and compassion the lives of three teenagers as they tackle the same issues of identity, culture and family she faced a decade earlier.

Moi, Un Noir

In this landmark documentary, Jean Rouch collaborates with his subjects to produce a complex portrait of Nigerien migrants in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

Moles

Topos

Fiction, Drama Colombia

Five children living in the sewers roam the streets trying to escape a system that sets their homes on fire. Tragedy, tenderness, and fantasy are closely intertwined.

Mona Lisa is Missing

United States

An investigation into the history of the most famous painting of all times and its unsolved mystery theft.

Money Exchange

Cambio, cambio

Drama, Thriller, Fiction Argentina

Newsreel footage about Argentina’s spiraling inflation since 2019 sets the stage for this economic thriller where Pablo is forced to sell dollars on the black market.

Money, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc

Explores the history of the CFA Franc and monetary colonization in Africa.

Monobloc

Tells the story of how the best-selling, unsightly plastic chair took the world by storm.

Monsieur & Madame Adelman

The decades-spanning tumultuous romance of a quintessentially French couple.

Monument

Filmmaker Michael Turner (The Way We Talk) documents his first visit to a Holocaust memorial created by his grandmother Lici, a Hungarian Jew whose parents and sister were killed in Auschwitz.

Monumental History of Modern-Day Spain

Documentary, Experimental Spain

Some long steps towards today.

Moontime

Honoring a girls' entrance into womanhood.

More Than a Thousand Tomorrows

A follow-up to the video, A Thousand Tomorrows, More Than A Thousand Tomorrows revisits one of the couples, Everett and Betty Jordan and looks at the changes Alzheimer's causes in their intimate relationship.

Mortal Lessons

Two extraordinary women face death head on

Mosuo Sisters

A tale of two sisters living in the shadow of two Chinas, this documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marlo Poras (Mai’s America; Run Granny Run) follows Juma and Latso, young women from one of the world’s last remaining matriarchal societies.

Mother Plant

Madre Planta

Documentary Argentina

A collective of mothers fights for the legalization of cannabis oil, driving change while advocating for health, in this portrait of resistance.

Motherland

Belarus

In 2020, Belarus’s military practice of violent bullying, torture, and murder of conscripts as a means of control becomes a flash point for a growingly dissatisfied populace.

Mothers

Mothers is a gripping cinema verite documentary that shows how China's one-child policy plays out in the daily lives of women in a northern Chinese village.

Mothers of Bedford

Jenifer McShane's absorbing documentary gives human dimensions to these rarely reported statistics, taking us inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison for women.

Mothertime

MOTHERTIME is a personal video diary that takes us on a corporeal journey in parenting via a small portable Go-Pro camera mounted on the filmmaker and her toddler, over the period of a year and a half.

Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won't Fit Into His Suit

Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje

Fiction, Drama, Experimental Mexico

There he sits proudly on his beautiful motorbike, certain that he alone can explore the jungle. A playful re-enactment with reversed roles that takes aim at colonialism.

Mountains of Gold

Gold mining in the Amazon is a dangerous and dirty business.

Mr. CO2

Traveling from Copenhagen to China, and from Australia to the US, this documentary looks at the state of carbon emissions and efforts to rein them in.

Mrs F.

In Makoko, the largest slum on water in Nigeria, Mrs F. wants to unite women and perform the play called "Hear Word!"; a women empowerment project about gender inequality based on true stories to get women out of their oppressed position, to convince them to speak up and encourage them to connect. But even before she can start, she must overcome the unruly gatekeepers of patriarchy and religion.

Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman

Attempting to escape North Korea, Mrs. B. is sold by smugglers to a Chinese farmer. She becomes a smuggler herself and struggles to reunite with her sons, but the secret service gets involved...

Mrs. Death

Documentary

A documentary revolving around those who collect pictures of the dead.

Multiracial Identity

Explores the social, political and religious impact of the multiracial movement.

Mundane History

Mustapha Kemal Ataturk

The story of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, called Ataturk ('the father of the Turks').

Mute Fire

Pirotecnia

Documentary Colombia

A personal essay that examines the relationship between film footage, the events of the war in Colombia, family history, and the origins of cinema in Colombia.

Muybridge's Strings

An animated meditation on the theme of time, contrasting the worlds of 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge who successfully photographed consecutive phases in the movement of a galloping horse, and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her.

My Amazing Funeral

El día que me muera

Fiction Argentina

Dina (Betiana Blum), desperate to see her estranged children, stages a mock funeral to lure them back, but the plan spirals into madness, revealing unexpected results.

My America...Or Honk If You Love Buddha

An Asian American road odyssey set amidst a subculture of rappers, debutantes & freedom fighters

My Bolivia, Remembering What I Never Knew

Documentary Bolivia, United States

My Bolivia is a historic road trip to make sense of a family’s and a country’s past.

My Bones Are Woven

An iconic British artist and weaveer changes career in her eighties and finds new fame for her creativity

My Brother

Mi hermano

Documentary Mexico, Spain

A touching experience for the film’s subjects and for its audience, My Brother follows a single woman, Gabriela, as she and her adoptive son, Alexey, decide to adopt a second boy, Mateo.

My Brothers Dream Awake

Mis hermanos sueñan despiertos

Drama, Fiction Chile

Ángel and his younger brother Franco have been incarcerated in a juvenile prison for a year. Despite the difficulties, they have formed a solid group of friends.

My Country No More

The oil boom in North Dakota sets off a crisis in a rural community, forced to confront the meaning of progress as they fight for a disappearing way of life.

My Emptiness and I

Mi vacío y yo

Drama, Fiction Spain

Working at a Barcelona call center, romantic dreamer Raphi grapples with her gender dysphoria diagnosis. As she chases an elusive image of modern love, surprises and shifts await. A queer film classic.

My Father (Récits de Sam)

A fragmented meditation on surviving the Warsaw Ghetto, in an intimate conversation between father and daughter.

My Father's House

A rare glimpse inside an immigrant African community in China.

My Feminism

MY FEMINISM is a critically important look at second wave feminism in the 1990’s, a time rife with anti-feminist backlash.

My Filmmaking, My Life

Mexico

Now in her 70s, a vibrant Matilde Landeta recalls her years working upwards through the ranks of a flourishing Mexican film industry during the 1930s.

My Grandmother's House

La casa de mi abuela

Documentary Spain

A beautifully constructed documentary that depicts with great subtlety the changing ways in suburban Spain. Adán Aliaga has turned a simple subject into a dashing and fast paced, remarkably candid documentary on family life in Spain, modernization and generational change. A tribute to grandmothers everywhere, filled with painterly images of southeastern Spain and a director’s love for his family.

My Imaginary Country

An explosive social revolution brought 1.5 million Chileans to their feet. It was the event Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for.

My Little Underground

A sombre, haunting autobiographical story that follows a young girl's bus ride home in winter.

A lively, humorous, and moving account of defining historical moments and various uses over the years of Quebec City's Plains of Abraham.

My So-Called Selfish Life

A paradigm-shifting documentary about one of our greatest social taboos: choosing to not become a mother

NN sin identidad

Drama, Fiction Peru

A powerful, nuanced look at a country’s efforts to come to terms with a dark chapter in its history.

Nada's Revolution

An intimate portrait of a young, post-revolution Egyptian woman fighting for her freedom and independence in a society caught between old traditions and modernization.

Nadine

A shy adolescent with an overflowing imagination meets the most beautiful girl in the world...

Naked Spaces: A Portrait of Rural West Africa

NAKED SPACES explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the rural environments of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkino Faso, Togo, Benin and Senegal.

Nanjing

Neither Hero nor Traitor

Ni héroe ni traidor

Drama, Fiction Argentina

Matías dreams of going to Spain to study music far from a dictatorship. His problems come down to convincing his girlfriend to meet him there and to get around his father’s opposition. But the playing field changes completely when the Falklands War breaks out and he is drafted along with his friends.

Net Cafe Refugees

Internet cafes have existed in Japan for well over a decade, but in the mid 2000’s customers found a new use for these spaces: living quarters. As a result, cafes are now equipped with showers and laundry service, all reasonably priced for overnight users.

Never Coming Home

For each of the more than four thousand U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, there is an American family undone by grief. "Never Coming Home" takes us inside these families, to meet the people and sift through the emotions that are left behind.

Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart

Cédric Anger wrote and directed this chilling chronicle of notorious serial killer Alain Lamare.

Ni Aquí, Ni Allá

Neither Here, Nor There

United States

NI AQUÍ, NI ALLÁ illuminates the challenges facing an undocumented college student and her family.

Nibbler

Mordisquitos

Fiction, Romance, Comedy Spain

Nico and Julia are thinking about moving in together. There's only a small problem: he has a cat called Nibbler and she's allergic.

Nice Chinese Girls Don't: Kitty Tsui

Nice Chinese Girls Don’t is a portrait of Kitty Tsui -- an iconic Asian American lesbian, poet, artist, activist, writer, and bodybuilder who came of age in the early days of the Women’s Liberation Movement in San Francisco.

Nice Colored Girls

This stylistically daring film audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women.

Nice People

Sweden

A look at the first-ever Somali bandy team in their struggle to reach the World Championship in Siberia 2014.

Night Cries

Tracy Moffatt's story of a middle-aged, adopted Aboriganal woman nursing her dying white mother. Their story alludes to the assimilation policy that forced Aboriginal children to be raised in white families.

Night Shot

Visión noctuna

Documentary Chile

After being raped, a young filmmaker creates a video diary exploring the wounds of abuse, the re-victimizing legal proceedings, and the accompanying friendships. Does rape ever end?

Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners

In part the story of Aborginal athletes blocked from entering the 1967 Winnipeg Pan American Games with the Games torch; but also the story of a segregated school system, and survival, hope and reconciliation.

Niloofar

United States

Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys.

Bulgaria

From father to son, the love we pass on... Pulls the audience into the heads of the football hooligans from the roughest city in Bulgaria — Pernik. A once flourishing industrial center, today all that’s left is the urban legend about its citizens’ toughness — an echo of the miners’ brave and glorious past underground.

No Straight Lines

The journeys of five scrappy queer artists from the margins of the underground comics scene to mainstream acceptance

No Time To Waste

Celebrates legendary 98-year-old park ranger Betty Reid Soskin's inspiring life, work and urgent mission to restore critical missing chapters of America's story.

No Turning Back

Building on testimony to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, NO TURNING BACK providies a valuable tool for informing both non-Native and Native people about their living conditions and their history.

No Visible Trauma

Canada

Calgary is Canada’s fourth largest city, known as the centre of the country’s oil industry and a gateway to the Rocky Mountains. Unfortunately, Calgary has also become known for the violence and dysfunction of its police department.

No. 89 Shimen Road

It's the late 1980s, while Xiaoli's teachers talk about China's recovery from the devastation of the Cultural Revolution, another wave of cultural change is already underway.

Nobody Knows My Name

Tells the story of women who are connected by their love for hip-hop music.

Nobody's Watching

Nadie nos mira

Drama, Fiction Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, United States

A fresh and unexpected take on the immigrant tale, where the journey is not to get a green card but confronting the true reasons for leaving home and redefining one’s identity in one’s own terms.

Nokia Mobile

Finland

The rise and fall of Nokia and the Finnish mobile phone industry.

Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, examining how a global project of political emancipation was constituted by the cinematic image.

Nona, If They Soak Me I'll Burn Them

Nona, si me mojan yo los quemo

Fiction, Drama, Experimental Chile, Brazil, France, Korea (South)

A former member of the anti-Pinochet resistance in Chile – and expert at making petrol bombs – unsettles her new neighbours.

North Circular

Ireland

France

A look at the men and women performaing painstaking reconstruction work on the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, three years after its rooftops were destroyed by flames in front of the eyes of the whole world.

Now We Live on Clifton

Children talk about their fear of being forced out of their neighborhood by the gentrification.

Now that We Are Together

Ahora que estamos juntas

Documentary Mexico

Patricia joins feminist protests and, through solidarity, self-defense, and shared joy, discovers that unity in a violent world can be revolutionary.

Nudo Mixteco

Nudo mixteco

Drama, Fiction Mexico

Drama, Fiction Brazil

In the heavily populated city of São Paulo, a young architect discovers a clandestine cemetery underneath the construction site of his latest project.

Occupation Mill Worker

Records the inspirational action of workers who, after a four-year lockout, forcibly occupied The New Great Eastern Mill.

Of Memory and Debris

De memoria y escombros

Documentary Venezuela, Canada, France

Take your best day and your darkest moment and multiply it by a million.

Off the Road

Fuera del camino

Documentary, Musical Mexico, United States

Each year, the slow-paced lifestyle on Mexico’s largest desert in Baja Peninsula is given a turbo boost by the Baja 1000, the largest off-road motorsport race in the world.

Oil and Water

Two boys come of age looking for solutions to the global problem of reckless oil drilling following years of oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Ojigkwanong: Encounter With an Algonquin Sage

The life of Ojigkwanong, the Algonquin leader who worked to reconcile longstanding conflicts between native groups, through forgiveness and tolerance.

Ok, Joe!

Explores the abuses of the US army against French civilians after WWII.

Okimah

Filmmaker Paul M. Rickard takes us along with his family on a traditional goose hunt, revealing the rich role that it plays in Cree culture.

Olafur Eliasson: Space is Process

Denmark

Eclectic, speed-talking academic and shy artist Olafur Eliasson is followed over five years.

Old Dog

A family on the Himalayan plains discovers their dog is worth a fortune, but selling it comes at a terrible price.

Old or New?

In Lima, Peru, a new generation of top chefs are cooking with traditional ingredients and supporting traditional livelihoods.

Oliver Tambo

The untold story of Oliver Tambo, one of the key figures in ending apartheid in South Africa.

Oliver and the Pool

Oliverio y la piscina

Fiction, Drama, Comedy Mexico

When something unexpected happens in his family, Oliver finds refuge in a poolside lounge chair and decides there's no reason to move. Ever.

Olivia

A newly restored print of this 1950 feminist film about girls at a boarding school exploring their discovery of love and attraction.

On Beauty

ON BEAUTY follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who uses his lens to challenge conventional definitions of beauty.

Documentary Chile

A journey through the works of Mapuche artist Bernardo Oyarzún, exploring identity, spirituality, territory and racial justice in contemporary Chile.

On The Divide

The story of three Latinx people in McAllen, Texas connected by the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border

On This Side of the World

A este lado del mundo

Drama, Fiction Spain

A deep and global look at migrations, borders, and the most insurmountable walls erected by mankind, directed by David Trueba.

On the Border of the Ideal

How do ideals survive in times of deep crisis?

On the Edge

France

In a state facility in the Paris suburbs, the only psychiatrist devotes himself to his mission with passion and dedication… at the risk of losing ground.

On the French Riviera with Man Ray and Picasso

More than a surrealist travel diary, our film tells the story of the friendship between a group of painters, photographers and poets who are passionate about art.

Follows four children on their long and challenging journeys to school, in Kenya, Morocco, India and Argentina.

Once A Fury

ONCE A FURY profiles members of The Furies, a 1970s radical collective that developed a lesbian-feminist politic to correct what they called the "zig-zag and haphazard" thinking of the straight women's movement.

Once Upon a Place

Documentary United States

“La Nacional” is a nondescript building in New York City that welcomed thousands of immigrants to the United States over its 150-year history. The building itself narrates its striking story.

Una noche solos

Fiction, Drama, Comedy Argentina

Celina and Alejo, with their son Camilo, face relationship woes. A hotel night gift from Alejo's mother brings unexpected twists, testing their hopes for a rejuvenated romance.

One Step From Glory

Abdel is 18. He has been an intern in one of the most prestigious football training centers of Europe. In the next months, his future will be at stake: after negotiations, he may sign his first contract and begin a path to wealth and glory, but if he doesn’t succeed he will get back at the starting point, without a diploma and no prospect in life.

One Street Away

A una cuadra

Documentary Argentina, United Kingdom, United States

An intimate portrayal of overlooked communities in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film reveals the resilience and humanity of marginalized residents despite negative stereotypes.

One Taxi Ride

Documentary Mexico, Singapore

One Taxi Ride is an observational documentary that tells the intimate story of a male rape survivor. Erick’s innermost thoughts, fears, struggles, and triumphs weave a dramatic tale of a man fighting for a future and a life worth living. His journey impacts the world around him in a way that he never saw coming.

One in 2000

One in two thousand babies are born with anatomy that doesn't clearly mark them as either male or female. This provocative documentary demystifies the issue through intimate profiles of people born intersex.

One or Two Questions

Documentary Uruguay, Germany

A testimony of the capacity of documentary cinema (and archives) to unravel the complexity of history, One or Two Questions documents the mood on the streets of Uruguay between 1987 and 1989 following the approval of a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the army and police during the dictatorship.

Open Bethlehem

The filmmaker comes home to Bethlehem to find the city being strangled by the Wall and ongoing Israeli settlements, and starts a campaign to keep Bethlehem open to the world.

Open Cage

Los bañistas

Drama, Fiction Mexico

A teenager and her elderly neighbor are hit hard when the economy collapses. They will have to learn to relate to each other to survive the crisis and rediscover the meaning of life.

Orchestrating Change

Tells the inspiring story of Me2/Orchestra, the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness and those who support them.

Orchids

This award-winning documentary traces Gen X filmmaker Phoebe Hart’s voyage of self-discovery as an intersex person, a group of conditions formerly termed hermaphroditism.

Ordinary People: The Peacemakers

In 1993, in South Africa, two rallies were held to commemorate the 1960 Sharpeville massacre.

Original Minds

Inspirational film that shows a way to bring out the individual talents of five teenagers normally classified as learning disabled.

Ornament of the World

Documentary United States

Nuestro canto a la guerra

Documentary, Experimental Colombia, Belgium

Ovarian Psycos rides along with the Ova’s, exploring the impact of the group’s activism, born of feminist ideals, Indigenous understanding and an urban/hood mentality, on neighborhood women and communities.

Over the Waves: A Story of Flamenco in the U.S.

Sobre las olas

Documentary, Musical United States

For over a hundred years, the art of flamenco has been crossing the ocean into distant places. Many have fallen in love with the deep song, the cry, the rhythm. Over the Waves explores the tradition of flamenco art in the US: its origins, protagonists, and its identity as a nomadic and hybrid art form.

Over the Years

An observation of what happens to a few manual laborers over a period of 10 years.

Overbooking

Documentary Spain

An energetic exhibition of the art of Sue Coe which communicates the artist's passionate cry for justice in a troubled time.

Pakucha

Documentary Peru

In a Peruvian Andean community, a family celebrates rituals evoking alpaca spirits. Immersed in Andean mysticism, they embrace new beginnings.

Palestine Is Still The Issue

John Pilger returns to the Middle East and questions why there has been no progress towards peace.

Pan Seco

Pan seco

Documentary

At 93 years old, Justo is taking an unconventional spiritual path. With the asceticism of a monk with the imagination of the architect, he has been building a Cathedral since 1961.

Panama Canal Stories

Historias del Canal

Drama, Fiction, Romance Panama

Spanning a century, from 1913 to 2013, this impressive, sweeping historical drama chronicles five incredible stories of people who helped build the famous canal and Panama itself.

Panjy, Amelia, Justin and Vusumzi

Revisits four children in India, Norway, and South Africa, who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.

Panopticon

With the spread of electronics and computer networks, privacy is disappearing everywhere, even in the most liberal democracies. What are the implications of this new digital panopticon?

Pantanal

Drama, Fiction, Adventure Argentina

A man flees Buenos Aires with a bag of money, chasing hints of an unpaid debt and long-lost brother on a road trip through South America.

Panther Women

Las mujeres panteras

Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Classic Mexico

Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.

Papicha

Paris Calligrammes

German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s love letter to the city where she came of age, and her explorations of her own artistic growth, fueled by bookstores, jazz clubs, workshops and cafés.

Paris, a Winter's Day

A love letter to living in Paris.

Partner with the Enemy - Making it in the Middle East

Israel

France

For 18 years, director Claire Doyon has been filming Pénélope, her daughter with autism. Composed of DV tapes, Super 8 reels and HD archives, Penelope My Love traces the relationship between mother and daughter through different stages – the shock of the diagnosis, the fight against it, the resolve, the acceptance and discovery of a different mode of existence.

People Are The Sky

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is the first Korean American filmmaker to be given official permission by the North Korean government to film inside its borders.

People of the Ice

A look at climate change through the eyes of several generations of Inuit.

Perdida

Documentary Mexico

After being told that her family had made some of the worst films in the history of Mexican cinema, Viviana García Besné unearths 100 years of cinematic legacy.

Perfect Strangers

One woman's journey to give away a kidney raises thorny philosophical questions about acts of compassion

Performing the Border

A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas.

Perfumes

This nuanced and delightful dramedy stars Emmanuelle Devos (Read My Lips, Number One) and Grégory Montel (Call My Agent) as two people who just might need each other more than they realize.

Perro Bomba

Perro bomba

Drama, Fiction Chile, France

Steevens is a young Haitian immigrant living a challenging, but somewhat stable life in Santiago de Chile: he has a construction job, a home, friends, and fun. This precariously balanced life is disrupted when a childhood friend arrives seeking assistance to establish himself.

Persistent Woman

Mujer perseverante

Documentary Argentina

Israel

The story of eight Arab widows who suddenly decide to jointly open a plant for the production of high quality pickles.

Picture Stories

Picture Post was Britain's best-selling weekly magazine during the 1940s and early 50s. Through its picture stories, Picture Post pioneered a completely new approach to the portrayal of British life, and in doing so helped to shape modern British photography. PICTURE STORIES, a feature-length documentary, explores that revolution through the eyes of some of Britain’s leading documentary and street photographers, and through archive interviews with Picture Post photographers, writers and editors.

Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer

A unique portrait of photographer George Johnston, who documented Native life and culture in the first half of the 20th century.

Pilots on the Way Home

A satirical meditation on male-female relations, told via three airplane pilots, inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert.

Pink Saris

Sampat Pal Devi, founder of India’s Gulabi (“Pink”) Gang and fearless defender of the rights of untouchable women, challenges husbands, fathers-in-law and policemen in this immersive study by acclaimed documentarian Kim Longinotto.

Pirate Hunting

Norway

The first film to take a deeper look at piracy and its reasons, showing international big business interests behind the acts of greed and violence.

Plan C (94 min)

A grassroots network fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade

Plan F

A demonstration of the power of recovery and reinvention when life forces a change of plans -- in this case the loss of eyesight at age 20.

Plane Truths

With the "Pivot to Asia" increased activity at the navy base on Whidbey Island, WA is making life unbearable for locals and wildlife — collateral damage in the ever increasing militarization of our society.

Polish Prayers

Switzerland, Poland

Young Antek holds deeply conservative religious views, but when he falls in love, doubts begin to set in — first about the prohibition of premarital sex, and ultimately about the existence of God.

Pollock & Pollock

Jackson and Charles Pollock, two brothers, two painters, are caught up in the twists of twentieth century American history.

Documentary United States

This film follows Nobel laureate Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's President, as he pursues peace, battling FARC guerrillas, orchestrating rescues, and facing political consequences.

Portrait of My Father

El retrato de mi padre

Documentary, Thriller Uruguay

Israel

Against the backdrop of a family dealing with illness and death, a gay activist is repeatedly called for reserve duty as a tank commander in the Israeli army.

Power to Heal

Tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans

Documentary, Series Brazil

At the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo investigates and prosecutes accused war criminals, worldwide.

Prosecutor

Documentary Canada

France

West African waters have been overexploited for more than 40 years, largely by foreign fleets from Europe, Russia and Asia. The collapse of fish stocks threatens fishermen and their families, an important part of Senegalese society.

The Democratic Republic of Congo sits atop one of the world's most vast deposits of diamonds and gold; yet it is also home to the world's most deadly war. Photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale explores the connection.

Raphael's School of Athens

Canada

A detailed examination of The School of Athens, unveiling its rich symbolism and exploring its subtle levels of meaning.

Raphael: A Portrait

Canada

An unprecedented look into the extraordinary life, achievements and legacy of Raphael (1483-1520), one of history’s most prolific and influential artists of the Renaissance.

Rare

RARE follows an extraordinary mother in a race against time to find a treatment for her daughter's rare genetic disease.

A chilling account of how murder and mind control are being applied to systematically dismantle secular democracy in India today (part 1).

Reason (Part 2)

A chilling account of how murder and mind control are being applied to systematically dismantle secular democracy in India today (part 2).

Rebels on Pointe

The first-ever documentary film celebrating the world famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the notorious all-male, drag ballet company founded over 40 years ago.

Rebound

Carrying the weight of motherhood, trauma, and incarceration, two women find healing and hope through sisterhood, service, and education

Reconstruction of Occupation

Czechia, Slovakia

For 30 years, director Jan Šikl has collected amateur films from families in his community. Then one day, he is brought archival materials - footage shot by Czech military cameramen which remained hidden for over half a century.

Recovering Ruffin

PhD student Ruffin White overcomes the grim predictions for his future after a severe autism spectrum disorder diagnosis

Red Gold

Oro Rojo

Sweden

An intimate and poetic film exploring the innermost rooms of the human mind and the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship.

For Walter Backerman, seltzer is more than a drink. It’s the embodiment of his family. As a third generation seltzer man, he follows the same route as his grandfather. But after 90 years of business, Walter may be the last seltzer man.

A unique art-history saga, this film recounts the troubling story of the African artwork that fills European museums, and whose return is now being demanded by their countries of origin.

Resurrección / Resurrection

The once-paradisiacal waterfall of "El Salto de Juanacatlán" in Jalisco is heavily polluted when an industrial corridor is established across the Santiago River.

A delightful screwball farce with surprising depth starring Jean Dujardin and Mélanie Laurent.

Return to Cuba

Volver a Cuba

Documentary Cuba, Canada

After 18 years living in Italy, Barbara Ramos returns to live in the town of Santa Clara, in Cuba, her homeland. Through the projects of family and friends, she discovers what has changed, what hasn’t, and what will likely never change in her country.

Return to Dak To

Five army veterans journey back to contemporary Vietnam, intending to put their war experiences to rest.

Return to Raqqa

Documentary Spain

The ordeal of journalist Marc Marginedas, who was kidnapped by the Islamic State in Syria in one of the most infamous events in recent history.

Return to Vimy

A young Canadian woman visits the Vimy Memorial to make a charcoal imprint of the engraved name of her great-grandfather who was lost in battle, bringing with her a notebook of sketches and diary entries that he made during months of preparation for the battle to take back Vimy Ridge.

Return to the Body

Rebecca Torosian is a surrogate partner therapist, engaging in education and often intimate physical contact and/or sexual activity with clients as part of her practice.

Returned

Documentary United States

Italy

A love story, seen through the memories of one young couple.

Riddles of the Sphinx

A landmark fusion of feminism and formal experimentation that seeks to create a non-sexist film language.

Ride

Bareback bronc riding is not for the faint of heart. The risk of serious and possibly fatal injury looms with each buck and kick. For Liam Marshall, it’s a thrill he’s always known.

Rights & Wrongs

By returning to the roots of Islam and understanding how societies have found justification for their treatment of women within Islamic sources, this thoughtful and far reaching film is an essential resource that debunks myths about women and Islam.

Riot in the Matrix

Austria

A report about independent data protection activists fighting the digital online giants.

Risky Business

A discussion-starter on genetically engineered plants and animals.

Rite of Passage

When Madje grew old and her dementia didn't allow her to live alone anymore, her only child, successful photojournalist Maggie, took her from Texas to Miami to take care of her, and documented Madje's life in an assisted living facility.

Ritz

Sweden

The first and only filmed biography about Cesar Ritz, inventor of the modern hotel business.

River City Drumbeat

Generations of African American mentors empower youth through ancestral art and culture.

River Silence

Documentary Canada

As construction of one of the world’s largest dams destroys the Amazon’s ancient ecosystems, the filmmaker offers a plea for those brutalized for rampant development.

Roads in February

Las rutas en febrero

Drama, Fiction Canada, Uruguay

Driven by childhood memories and the hope of a reunion, Sarah visits her paternal grandmother in her village in Uruguay.

Roads of Lava

A Cuban mother educates her son about the harsh realities of discrimination.

Roberto Clemente

Documentary United States

Explore the life of Roberto Clemente, the man who broke racial barriers to become baseball’s first Latino superstar.

Rocks at Whiskey Trench

The story of the 1990 mob attack on a convoy of Mohawk women, children and elders.

Rocky Road to Dublin

The last film screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968. A provocative, biting portrayal of 1960s Ireland: the stultifying educational system, the repressive, reactionary clergy, and the myopic cultural nationalism.

Rocío

Woven from footage collected over a quarter of a century, ROCIO is the story of a mother's love and the American Dream.

Rol & Rol

Documentary Spain

A reflection on the role that media, advertising, and fiction play in the construction of female role models.

Romance

Drama, Fiction Spain

Laura meets Carlos at a party. They dance, drink and have fun on a night that will be hard to forget.

Rompiente

Drama, Fiction Argentina

It’s the first day shooting a low-budget film. The director tries to shoot a sex scene, secretly keeping the camera running between takes, to capture brief moments of intimacy.

Rookies

In the heart of Paris, a prestigious high school takes an audacious bet: integrate students from working-class districts and make them break the circle of school failure through dance and hip hop. Rookies tells their story.

Roots of Latin Jazz

Documentary United States

Celebrate Latin music with the Raices Jazz Orchestra, with originals and arrangements such as Herbie Hancock's “Eye of the Hurricane” and performances by artists including Richard Bona and Anaadi.

Roque Dalton

It was once illegal to read books by Roque Dalton, one of El Salvador's most celebrated poets, in his own country.

Rosita

The plight of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of a rape, triggers a battle over whose life has precedence.

Rota n' Roll

Documentary Spain

In the 50s, a group of American marines brought dollars, Marlboros, Cadillacs, night clubs, and rock n´roll into post civil war Spain, an impoverished fascist dictatorship.

Roubaix, Police Department, Ordinary Business

Cops in Roubaix, France deal with ordinary and not-so ordinary business while trying to solve a murder.

Route 60

Ruta 60

Documentary Colombia

In the '90s, Route 60, connecting Medellín to Bogotá, was a battleground. Today, lingering fear and concealed atrocities haunt the memories.

Route One/USA (part 1)

Two men (director Robert Kramer and Paul McIsaac) return to the U.S. after years abroad where they follow Route 1 from Maine to Miami and encounter a tapestry of American life. Part 1 of 2.

Route One/USA (part 2)

Two men (director Robert Kramer and Paul McIsaac) return to the U.S. after years abroad where they follow Route 1 from Maine to Miami and encounter a tapestry of American life. Part 2 of 2.

Rowdy Girl

United States

Unable to come to terms with the cruel reality of animal agriculture, a former Texas cattle rancher goes vegan and transforms her husband’s beef operation into a farmed animal sanctuary.

Roy Smeck: Wizard of the Strings

Oscar-nominated documentary portrait of vaudeville-era musician Roy Smeck.

Ruins of Lifta

The story of Lifta, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated by Jews.

Rule of Law

A newly-disabled outlaw and country lawyer in Tennessee lead a class action lawsuit that affects the rights of 55 million people.

Runaway

A powerful and heart-breaking documentary about a group of young girls in a women's shelter in Tehran, Iran, who are struggling to free themselves from abuse and tyrannical patriarchy.

Chronicles Ruth Stone's heroic life story as a poet, mother, and teacher, leaving no question as to why she became both a Vermont and national treasure.

Rwanda

A country’s youth tries to rise from the ashes of a genocidal past.

SPK Complex

The untold story of the anti-psychiatric "Socialist Patient's Collective" in Germany, from the 1970s.

Sacred Soil

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year to identify them, and return the remains to their families.

Sacred Water

Immerses the viewer into a modern Rwanda rediscovering its heritage in a most secret way: female pleasure.

Sacromonte. The Wise of the Tribe

Sacromonte. Los sabios de la tribu

Documentary, Musical Spain

Sacromonte aims to recover the memory of the most important flamenco community in the world. Through the survivors of a lost and golden age, elder flamenco men and women, we dive in their past in search of their roots and memories.

Sad Song of Yellow Skin

The people of Saigon as seen through the experiences of three young American journalists who, in 1970, explored in their own way the consequences of war and of the American presence.

Salma

Through a deeply personal and devastating story, SALMA helps us understand why the goal of global education of girls is one of the most critical areas of empowerment and development of all women worldwide.

Salvador Allende

Patricio Guzmán tells Allende's story, from his youth in Valparaiso and his early career, to his presidency of Chile and death during the coup of September 11, 1973.

Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality - Episode 1

Takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dalí and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. Part 1 covers the period 1904 - 1929.

Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality - Episode 2

France

For decades, it was believed that the beginnings of art had emerged in Europe, 20,000 years ago at Lascaux, then 36,000 years at Chauvet... Recent researches are shaking up our understanding of art.

Escolas em luta

Documentary Brazil

Schools in Fight follows the students as they fight for their right to an education. Through interviews and cameras inside the buildings, operated by the same students, the film throws light on a generation that dared to face that autocratic gesture of the State.

Sealed Cargo

Carga sellada

Drama, Comedy, Fiction Bolivia, France, Mexico, Venezuela

A lively rejoinder to Bolivia's status as a dumping ground for the world's industrial waste. Rich in symbolism and in spirit, Sealed Cargo is a terrific ride through the seldom-seen Altiplano and a potent reminder of what really matters.

Searching For Gerda Taro

Celebrates the life and work of Gerda Taro — a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer whose work would be forgotten for decades.

Searching for Oscar

En busca del Óscar

Documentary

A film critic and President of the Spanish Association of Film Critics, Óscar Peyrou has a peculiar method for reviews: instead of seeing films, he critiques them by their posters.

Seashore

Beira mar

Drama, Fiction, Romance Brazil

During a weekend in the winter, two young men attempt to rekindle their friendship, witnessed by a cold raging sea.

Seats At The Table

Portrays a remarkable college class which connects university students with incarcerated students discussing Russian literature at a maximum security juvenile facility.

Second Time Around

The complexities of contemporary American marriage.

Secret Fear

Explores the full spectrum of anxiety-related disorders, from panic attacks and phobias to obsessive compulsive disorder.

Secret Museums

For millenia erotic art has been created, often by some of the world's best-known artists. But it is rarely on public display.

Secrets from Putumayo

Segredos do Putumayo

Documentary Brazil

A documentary about the man widely considered to be the pioneer of international human rights inquiries, Roger Casement (1864-1916). His work in Africa, Brazil, and his native Ireland still has repercussions today.

Secrets of Silicon Valley

Shocking expose of the hidden downsides of the Internet revolution.

Sediments

Sedimientos

Documentary Spain

Six trans women travel to a small town in León where they will explore what connects them as a group. An engaging and fun story about empathy, individuality, and the need to belong.

Seduced and Blackmailed

Switzerland

When a business woman is blackmailed by her young lover for millions of Euro, more than just her reputation is at stake.

See You Tomorrow, God Willing!

Spain

Everyday life in a convent is full of surprises...and humor.

Seed Battles

Deep inside a mountain in snow-covered Spitsbergen is the Global Seed Vault, an attempt to collect and preserve seeds of all food crops in the world. But to whom do the seeds belong?

Seeds of Hunger

A global investigation into the evolving nature of food production, and the crisis it may portend.

Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow

The darker side of the Green Revolution.

Seeds: Black Women in Power

Sementes: Mulheres pretas no poder

Documentary Brazil

The 2018 elections turned into the biggest political uprising led by Black women in Brazil's history, in response to the brutal execution of Marielle Franco.

Seeing Is Believing: Women Direct

United States

Material sensible

Documentary Spain

We examine how photography empowers survivors of childhood sexual abuse to express themselves through powerful imagery and personal testimonies.

Sepa, Nuestro Señor de los Milagros

The story of a prison wihtout bars forgotten in the Peruvian Amazon.

Serenade for Haiti

A classical music school in the heart of Port-au-Prince becomes a refuge of hope.

Sermons and Sacred Pictures

Profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Baptist minister and inspired photographer / filmmaker who documented the fabric of black American life prior to the civil rights movement.

Service: When Women Come Marching Home

SERVICE highlights the resourcefulness of seven amazing women who represent the first wave of mothers, daughters and sisters returning home from the frontless wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Seven Dogs

Siete perros

Drama, Fiction Argentina

Tótem loba

Fiction, Thriller

¿Me vas a gritar?

Documentary Mexico

Society's violence against women are a heavy burden that Melissa must lift everyday. When she gets in the ring, she’s the one answering back.

Shredded

Shredded is about a group of teenage boys who want to transform their bodies so they become "shredded" like the muscle-filled bodies of their media heroes.…

Shyness

Frankenstein is shy, and the good doctor and his not so good assistant try to help him out.

Siberian Love

Through clashing ideals of modern and traditional womanhood, SIBERIAN LOVE gives insight into the lives and relationships of people in the filmmaker's small Siberian village and raises questions about domesticity, gender expectations, domestic abuse, childcare, and romance.

Sick, Sick, Sick

Sem seu sangue

Fiction, Drama Brazil, France, The Netherlands

A teenage romance starts abruptly and ends suddenly after a serious accident. Silvia gets sick, her days turning to darkness. Her mourning becomes a quest to bring him back to life.

Sickle Cell Disease

The devastating impact of sickle cell disease.

Sieged: The Press vs. Denialism

Cercados: Naimprensa contra o negacionismo na pandemia

Documentary Brazil

Leading through a pandemic with denialism and propaganda, Bolsonaro took his country to the edge of disaster while journalists warned the country of a public health disaster.

Siembra

Fiction, Drama Colombia

Colombian fisherman Turco yearns to return to the land he abandoned years ago due to an ongoing conflict. When his son is killed, it shatters Turco's dreams of returning.

Signs of War

Austria

Dutch photographer Pierre Crom travels on a one-way plane ticket to Crimea in Ukraine, one day before its annexation by Russia in February 2014.

Silence Is Gold

A political and legal thriller about the attempt of mining companies to silence a critical exposé.

Silence Please

Silencio por favor

Drama, Fiction Spain

A small incident disrupts the family routine for a man, his mother, and his brother, who suffers from cerebral palsy.

Silence is a Falling Body

El silencio es un cuerpo que cae

Documentary Argentina

This story of political activism and sexual dissidence offers a fascinating insight into life in Argentina between the 1970s and 1990s, peeling back layers of left-wing politics, homosexuality, and AIDS as it shifts between private and public spheres, intertwining the personal and the political.

Silent Beauty

A lyrical and sensitive autobiographical exploration of the filmmaker's family history with child sexual abuse and a culture of silence.

Silent Witnesses

Mudos testigos

Experimental, Drama, Documentary, Romance Colombia, France

An imaginary trek through the history of Colombia (and its cinema) during the first half of the 20th century, using footage of Colombian silent film.

Silentium

An intimate look at the Benedictine Nuns of Our Dear Lady convent in the Swabian Alps.

Silicon Savannah

In Kenya can Muniu build a Life App to help William be as good a farmer as he can be?

Silicone Soul

United States

Silicone Soul explores the emotional connection some people have to their synthetic companions and what that means for the future of human relationships.

Silverlake Life

Independent Filmmaker Tom Joslin and his longtime lover Mark Massi battle AIDS in the days before effective medication existed.

Sin By Silence

From behind prison walls, a group of extraordinary women are shattering misconceptions of domestic violence. An important film that profiles Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA), the US prison system’s first inmate initiated group and led by women, SIN BY SILENCE is an essential resource featuring more than two hours of bonus materials, including interviews with experts on abusive relationships, law enforcement leaders and leaders in faith-based communities about domestic violence, and more.

Sing, Freetown

Saudi Arabia

Two friends embark on a journey to create an inspiring work of national theatre — to restore pride to a nation with a rich and amazing history, yet known today mostly for conflict, poverty and corruption.

The story of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, whose revolutionary art inspired social change in Mexico, the United States, and beyond

Sir! No Sir!

The untold story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam.

Sisters

For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria.

Sisters Rising

Native American survivors of sexual assault fight to restore personal and tribal sovereignty against the backdrop of an ongoing legacy of violent colonization.

Sisters in Law

Winner of the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Festival, SISTERS IN LAW is the story of two women in Cameroon determined to change their community.

Sisters in the End of the World

Irmã

Adventure, Fiction Brazil

Ana and Julia embark on a journey to find their father amidst their mother's worsening illness. Seeking freedom, they encounter an asteroid, ghosts, superpowers, and dinosaurs.

Six Days

This inspiring documentary follows three brave human rights defenders in Liberia, Abkhazia, Georgia and Iraq over six days.

Six in Paris (Paris vu par)

The City of Lights as seen in short films by six New Wave master directors.

Skies Above Hebron

A coming-of-age film depicting the challenges and hopes of brothers Amer and Anas during five years of filming in the Palestinian old city of Hebron.

Skin

Documentary, Experimental Brazil

Hasta aquí todo va bien

Drama, Fiction Colombia

The daily life of a popular neighborhood in Bogotá is interrupted by a man threatening to commit suicide by jumping into the void.

Sociology is a Martial Art

A new documentary about the world famous, highly influential sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, whose 40 books and countless articles represent a brilliant renovation and application of social science.

Soft Vengeance

A film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter, set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Softie

Daring and audacious, Softie is one of Kenya's most accomplished photojournalists. But running for office could be his most difficult assignment yet.

Documentary, Series Brazil

An inside look at urban and rural hospice centers across South Africa that provide community-based compassionate care in the face of widespread poverty.

Songs that Flood the River

Cantos que inundan el río

Documentary Colombia

In the community of Pogue, alabados—songs that guide the dead to purgatory—transform into haunting pleas for peace in this mesmerizing tale.

Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

The historic Gowanus neighborhood music studio with a 30 year story.

Sound of Torture

Israel

This powerful documentary intimately follows Swedish-Eritrean journalist Meron Estefanos and her efforts to aid Eritrean hostages and their families.

South

Chantal Akerman explores the mental and physical landscape of the American South through the horrific modern-day lynching of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas.

South Africa Belongs to Us

Aided by two black women journalists, the filmmakers visited workers' barracks, a family planning clinic in Soweto, and a shantytown to create the first and most stirring record of black women's lives in South Africa under apartheid.

Southern District

Zona sur

Drama, Fiction, Comedy, Romance Bolivia

Bolivia’s official entry for the Academy® Awards, this searing portrait of a patrician family in flux exposes the bubble of decadence in which they exist. The threat of shifting aristocratic privilege heralds a new era in a seemingly interminable class war.

Southern Rites

One year after the town merges its segregated proms, photographer Gillian Laub documents a divisive murder case in a small Georgia town.

Spawning Grounds is an educational documentary film that chronicles a critical season in the life of the Lake Sammamish kokanee, a unique but little-known species of landlocked salmon with immense cultural and ecological importance.

Speaking In Tongues

Amidst the rise of “English-only” initiatives, four diverse American students in language immersion schools open their minds to new ways of thinking

Spears From All Sides

Continuing the story started in Trinkets and Beads (1995), in Ecuador, the Waorani people resist the destruction of one of most remote and beautiful areas of the world.

Spider Thieves

Niñas araña

Drama, Fiction, Adventure, Thriller Chile

Inspired by actual events, the teenage thriller Spider Thieves is a unique social commentary on dreams, class, and unfulfilled expectations in contemporary Chile.

Split Estate (Short Version)

Documents the devastating effect that fracking for natural gas and oil is having on the health of families and the environment in the Rocky Mountain West.

Split Estate

Documents the devastating effect that fracking for natural gas and oil is having on the health of families and the environment in the Rocky Mountain West.

Spring Blossom

A bored Parisian teenager contemplates the pitfalls of growing up too fast when she falls in love with an older man, in Suzanne Lindon’s debut.

United States

Robar a Rodin

Documentary Chile, France

Traces the story of Luis Onfray as he explains the personal and artistic reasons for pulling off Chile’s greatest art theft.

Stealing the Fire

In 1996, the German nuclear engineer Karl-Heinz Schaab was accused of selling secret information to Iraq. But was Schaab a shrewd traitor or a simple pawn in a much more extensive network?

Steel Life

Vida ferrea

Documentary Peru, Spain

A train trek from Andes to Pacific, Steel Life exposes the sociopolitical complexities of Peru, rich in resources but poor in health and education.

Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941-1977

This inspiring film follows the lives of eight Midwestern women, six of whom became founders of National Organization for Women (NOW).

Stephanie, Erdo and Kay-Kay

Revisits three children in the United States, Kenya, and China, who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.

Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty

Stewart Lee Udall was the most prominent and effective Secretary of the Interior in American history. Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty is a feature documentary that examines the trajectory of Udall’s life from his childhood through his Mormon mission, his World War II service, his student years at the University of Arizona, his time in Congress, and then, most significantly, his years as Secretary of the Interior and beyond.

Stigmata

Estigmas

Drama, Fiction, Experimental Spain

Told by a hulking, gentle giant of a man, Stigmata follows Bruno as he wakes up one morning bleeding from mysterious wounds on his hands. A hauntingly beautiful and lyrical tale based on the Italian cult graphic novel by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti.

Still Dreaming

A group of retired actors, dancers, and musicians create a unique take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Still Waters

In his tiny, one-room, after hours, free school in Brooklyn, Stephen Haff teaches forty Latinx kids reading, creative writing and Latin.

Stolen Art

In 1978 in New York City, an unknown Czech artist by the name of Pavel Novak held an exhibit entitled Stolen Art...

Stolen Land

Illustrates the decades-long often violent resistance movement of the indigenous Nasa people of Colombia over rights to their native land.

Stolen Spirits

Australia

In 2021, in the small rural town of Genoa Nebraska, a harrowing search commenced to locate the graves of Native America children who were taken from their tribes and sent to the Genoa U.S Indian Industrial School.

Stonewall

Every year in June, the Gay Pride parade is a wild party. It hasn’t always been like this. While 2020 marks its 50th anniversary, it was originally the first time gays and lesbians walked the streets in New York, claiming publicly to be out, and this procession was intended to commemorate the Stonewall riots that had occurred a year earlier.

Stony Paths

Following in his great-grandfather's footsteps, Arnaud undertakes a trek across Anatolia to study the Armenian Genocide.

Stopping Traffic

An in-depth look at sex trafficking from Sadhvi Siddhali Shree.

Stories I Didn't Know

It’s a family reunion … what could go wrong? Plenty, as we soon learn when Rita Davern exposes an ugly reality at the heart of a family legend.

Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell

Histórias que nosso cinema (nāo) contava

Documentary Brazil

A review of the military dictatorship in Brazil told only through images and sounds from pornochanchada films, a genre of erotic film that was the most popular during that period.

Stories of A

France

Shot in Paris in 1973, this feminist film on the fight for abortion rights is both a fascinating historical document, and a reminder of the critical importance of civil disobedience.

Stories of Honor and Shame

United States

The strongest woman in the world: a portrait of Olympian Cheryl Haworth

Stronger than Love

Mas fuerte que el amor

Fiction, Drama, Romance Mexico, Cuba

Newly restored, this Mexican clasic melodrama and social critique of class tensions follows a humble man's fight to be accepted by the upper class after making millions.

Stroop: Journey into the Rhino Horn War

Australia

Drama, Fiction, Romance, Musical Argentina

A thoughtful and tender handling of a teen’s emerging sexuality. When a teenager falls for his best friend, turbulent emotions brew beneath the surface.

Success

Filmed in Times Square, this short film presents a dystopian vision of urban life in which the celebration of high-finance rewrites the topography of the city, while landscapes and indigenous cultures have been entrapped by a hyperbolic visual regime.

Cuidando al sol

Drama, Fiction Bolivia, Spain, Germany

Ten-year-old Lucía builds her daily in a small village near Lake Titicaca around the eternal wait for her father's return.

Sunset Story

Two elderly women activists change the way we look at aging

Surf Nation

As China trains its first generation of Olympic surfers, two promising young athletes - Alex and Lolo - navigate adolescence, freedome and their love of the sport

Surrounded with Love: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

More than 3.5 million children in the US are raised by a grandparent

Suspended Dreams

The lasting effects of the civil war in Lebanon.

Suspension

Deep in the jungle of Colombia, between treacherous mountain slopes, stands an unfinished bridge, an absurd symbol of human folly.

Suzanna Andler

Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.

Swan Song

When Marilyn is diagnosed with dementia at age 58, her daughters refocused their lives to care for her during her most precious years. They try to juggle it all until they are forced to make a heartbreaking decision.

Swimming Pool

Piscina

Fiction, Comedy Spain

Santi (Ferrán Vilajosana) and Jota (Álex Villazán) are living in the outskirts of Madrid. Like many others, they have decided not to study or work, spending their time drinking beer.

Swing and Sway

Vai e vem

Documentary, Experimental United States, Brazil

25 year old Gin is raising her 5 year old daughter in a trailer park as a single mother, while taking care of her dying grandfather and pursuing her dream to become a nurse.

Take Me in Your Arms

Llévame en tus brazos

Fiction, Drama, Musical, Romance Mexico

Performance artist Li Ning turns his life into art in this epic work of experimental documentary.

Tar Creek

Tells the incredible story of the Tar Creek Superfund site in NE Oklahoma and the massive and deadly remains left by the lead and zinc mines there.

Tatsumi

Animated film based on the life and stories of Manga writer Yoshihiro Tatsumi who revolutionised the art form with darker, more adult stories. The film animates several of his stories.

Tax Wars

France

An amusing but informative look at the psychological, social and economic issues surrounding the modern American obsession with straight, white teeth.

Tehran Blues

Un blues para Teherán

Documentary, Musical Spain

The city’s musicians and poets take us on a musical tour of Iran’s capital in a charming film about a music culture rarely heard of in the West.

Tehran Has No More Pomegranates

This musical comedy plays with fact and fiction to depict contemporary Iranian life.

Terremoto, el documental

Documentary Spain

The incredible life of Terremoto de Jerez. His style is the sublimation of cante jondo and his biography is the history of flamenco itself.

Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, uses his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change.

That Guy from the Train

El chico del tren

Fiction, Romance Spain

Every day, Sara runs into Tobías on her way to work. One morning she accepts his invitation for coffee, which will be the first of several rendezvous to affect her more deeply.

That Spirit, That Thing Inside

Invaluable for nursing recruitment and retention: Hispanic/Latino and American Indian nurses describe how they came to their careers, and have used their nursing expertise to serve their families, their tribes, and their communities.

That Was Life

La vida era eso

Drama Spain

Maria's tranquil life takes a turn when a young hospital patient's condition worsens, sparking a journey celebrating the possibilities of dignity.

The 1957 Transcripts

Israel

A remarkable artist who helps us see the humanity in others.

The Art of Cooking with Fire

Bittor Arginzoniz. Vivir en el silencio

Documentary Spain

Self-taught grill genius Bittor Arginzoniz shares his sources of inspiration and motivation in his world famous restaurant Asador Etxebarri in Spain.

The Art of Yodeling

Hipster goes yodel... We follow the philosophy student and yodeler Polkabjørn on his way to the ultimate yodel experiences, and to success.

The Assistant

A suspenseful drama-thriller in the vein of classic Hitchcock, centering on a mother's revenge for the accidental death of her son.

India

Filmmaker Madeleine Grant documents the first dalit caste students as they attempt to take the Indian School Certificate exams to enter university.

The Bad Kids

An extraordinary principal’s journey to help her students realize their potential

The Basketball Game

Fuses animation, documentary and personal memoir in a poignant and humorous tale of hope and tolerance in the face of fear and stereotypes.

The Bat Woman

La mujer murciélago

Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction, Classic Mexico

A new restoration of a fascinating and little-known Mexican entry in the Batman superhero canon.

The Battle for the Arab Viewer

A behind-the-scenes look at the rivalry between the Arab world's two main TV networks - Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.

The Battle of Chile (Part 1)

The epic chronicle of Chile's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it in 1973. Judy Stone of the San Francisco Chronicle called it 'a landmark in the presentation of living history on film.'

The Battle of Chile (Part 2)

The first documentary film to profile the young men and women who actively opposed the military draft in order to end the Vietnam War.

The Brave Class: The Power of Political Speech

Clase valiente: el poder de las palabras

Documentary Spain

A social experiment that introduces a concept into the daily speech of politicians and communications experts during the 2015 Spanish elections. This involved many people in acts of public intervention, urban art, and other forms of social activism with surprising results.

The Burden

Le Fardeau

France

In Bangui, Rodrigue and Reine are a couple very involved in the activities of their church. But they live with a terrible secret: they are sick with AIDS and carry it like a divine punishment. When Rodrigue is offered the position of assistant pastor, he has doubts: is he worthy of leading the church of Christ? Yet how can he refuse when he depends on Reine's trade? With the pandemic, ARV drugs are becoming scarce and the rumour is spreading that HIV-positive people will die if they vaccinate against Covid19. Reine believes a miracle is possible and sets out on a quest for a miraculous cure. She takes her husband from church to pilgrimage, from prayers of repentance to spiritual fasts, in the hope of divine healing.

The Burden of Knowledge

Explores the difficult ethical issues arising from advances in biotechnology that make it possible to identify genetic defects during pregnancy.

The Burning Field

Ghana

This immersive film presents an unforgettable slice of daily life in one of the largest e-waste dumps on earth, located just outside of Accra, Ghana.

The Calm After The Storm

Como el cielo después de llover

Documentary Argentina, Colombia

After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to her native city to join her father, acclaimed filmmaker and writer Victor Gaviria (The Rose Seller), in the shooting of his next film

The Campaign

A mayoral race in middle America.

The Candidate

El candidato

Comedy, Drama, Fiction Argentina, Uruguay

The son of a wealthy businessman starts prepping his candidacy for office. To distance himself from his father's reputation, he forms a new political party that speaks for the common man and hires a hotshot PR team to craft his new image.

The Canine Tooth

A diente de perro

Fiction, Drama, Thriller Spain

When Darío Manzano learns that his colleagues mugged the drug lords they work for, it triggers a spiral of fateful situations forcing him to fight against the clock for survival.

The Carbon Rush

An investigation of communities impacted carbon trading around the world and the ultimate failure of global carbon markets to stop climate change

The Case of the Grinning Cat

French cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on French and international politics, art and culture at the start of the new millennium.

The Caste Struggle

A controversial affirmative action policy in India has brought about unprecedented social and political change.

The Cathedral

Documentary Spain, Slovakia

After being expelled from a monastery, a Spanish monk dedicated 60 years to building a cathedral from discarded and recycled materials. Is he a madman or a genius?

The Celine Archive

In 1932, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community in Northern California. This is an attempt to uncover the real story, revealing Navarro’s feminism and resistance in a time when neither was embraced, as well as the silences that haunt Filipino-American communities to this day.

The Chef's Wife

Karin Viard and Emmanuelle Devos star together for the first time as two women who want more out of life-at work and at home

The Chess Player

El jugador de ajedrez

Drama, Fiction Spain

A story of love and survival set during the Nazi invasion of France during World War II.

The Chicago Maternity Center Story

The struggle to keep the Chicago Maternity Center open after 75 years.

The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street

An emotional piece of experimental historiography which focuses on French children whose lives were upended by World War II.

The Children of Camp Ashraf

Sweden

How could beloved parents choose combat before their own children?

The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

The entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg has played a role in the transformation of China's art world since the 1970s.

The Chocolate Farmer

This tender and moving tale captures a year in the life of a Belize cacao farm family.

The City of the Future

A cidade do futuro

Drama, Romance, Fiction Brazil

A beautiful naturalistic film that shuns convention, embracing love in all its dazzling iterations.

The Clitoris

A provocative and often humorous documentary exploring the 'mysteries' of female sexuality, focusing on the clitoris.

The Clockmakers

An experimental animated trip into a mysterious clockwork world.

Drama, Fiction, Thriller Cuba

Documentary Cuba

The compelling and tragic story of five Cuban intelligence agents who were arrested in the US in 1998 for their attempt to protect their country from terrorist attacks of paramilitary organizations operating from Miami. Essential viewing for the understanding of U.S.-Cuba relations.

The Culture of Emotions

Designed to introduce cultural competence and diversity skills to mental/behavioral health professionals and students who deal with multi-cultural client populations.

The Damned of the Paris Commune - Part 1

Paris, 1871: Immediately after suffering defeat at the hands of the Prussians, a wind of revolution blows over the French capital, sweeping away the last vestiges of the Second Empire.

Documentary, Series Brazil

An investigation into the extermination policy of the Brazilian State against indigenous populations during the civil-military dictatorship.

Documentary Argentina

El perro que no calla

Drama, Comedy, Fiction Argentina

An adventurous and bittersweet cinematic exploration of adulthood, love, loss, and fatherhood in a world rocked by a sudden catastrophe.

The Dreams of Others

Los sueños de otros

Documentary Spain

In one of Chris Marker's few fiction films, political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country.

The Empty Classroom

El aula vacía

Documentary, Fiction Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, El Salvador

Creative director Gael García Bernal explores the underlying reasons behind the school dropout crisis in Latin America, from poverty to societal traditions.

The End of Pinky

An animated tour-de-force of the original short story of the same name by award-winning writer Heather O'Neill (who also narrates).

The End of the Ottoman Empire - Part One

The Ottomans ruled three continents for six centuries. How did their rule end, and how does this history inform politics today? Part one of a two part series.

The End of the Ottoman Empire - Part Two

The Ottomans ruled three continents for six centuries. How did their rule end, and how does this history inform politics today? Part two of a two-part series.

The Enemy Within

The story of Britain's longest strike, the 1984-85 miners' strike, when Margaret Thatcher declared war on the unions, as told by those who lived through it.

The Eternal Night of Twelve Moons

La eterna noche de las doce lunas

Documentary Colombia

Twelve-year-old Pili is entering womanhood, and as tradition dictates in her Wayuu indigenous community, she must be isolated from all men for 12 moon cycles.

The Expert

La eminencia

Documentary Spain

Everything is born with a riddle. A riddle with a very simple answer, but for many people the answer is not so obvious. Why?

The Eyes of Thailand

Exposes the problems facing the Thai Asian Elephants at the Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) Elephant Hospital through Soraida's quest to save them. Narrated by Ashley Judd.

The Facilitator

El facilitador

Drama, Fiction, Thriller Chile, Ecuador, United States

Las Maestras de la República

Documentary Spain

Winner of a Goya Award for Best Documentary, The Female Teachers of The Republic focuses on the role of women in advancing public education in the spirit of equality and democratic access to schooling during the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939).

The Feminist - A Swedish Inspiration

Sweden

The rise, fall and rise again of a fearless woman in politics.

The Fever

Justino, a 45-year-old Desana native, is a security guard at the Manaus harbour. As his daughter prepares to study medicine in Brasilia, Justino is taken over by a mysterious fever.

The Fifteen Year Old Widows

Jean Rouch turns his anthropological eye to bourgeois teenage girls in Paris.

The Film Justifies the Means

El film justifica los medios

Documentary Colombia

Inside our editing rooms are images by filmmakers revealing a country in conflict. Five decades later we see a memory that refuses to disappear.

The Film of Her

THE FILM OF HER is about a Library on Congress clerk who saved a vaultful of reels, documenting the earliest days of cinema, from the incinerator.

The Filmmaker's House

When the Filmmaker is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins shooting in his home with a cast of characters connected to his own life. Two English builders replace the garden fence between the house and a Pakistani neighbour. A homeless Slovakian man charms the Filmmaker’s Colombian cleaner to let him in the house. What follows tests everyone’s ideas of boundaries and hospitality.

The Fire

El incendio

Drama, Fiction Argentina

A couple withdraw a hundred thousand dollars in cash from their bank to close on their first home. The sale's postponement uncovers the nature of their love as well as their crisis.

The First Rainbow Coalition

In a city determined to keep them apart, they dared to unite.

The First Step

In a divided America, Van Jones attempts to bring people together to pass a landmark criminal justice bill — and finds himself under fire from all sides

The First Year

Patricio Guzmán's jubilant record of the 12 months following the election of Chile’s first socialist president, Salvador Allende.

The Five Demands

The German Neighbor

El vecino alemán

Documentary, Fiction Argentina

Slovakia

Suffering from muscular dystrophy and terminally ill, Janette plans to travel from the UK to Switzerland in order to die with dignity.

The Good Life

La buena vida

Documentary Germany, Switzerland

Jairo Fuentes, a charismatic young Wayúu leader, fights to protect his community from displacement caused by the El Cerrejón coal mine's rapid expansion.

The Good Mind

The Onondaga Nation fights for their ancestral lands stolen by New York Sate in violation of a treaty signed with George Washington.

The Good Wife of Tokyo

A clever comment on the traditional representation of Japanese women, through a series of interviews.

The Gospel of Revolution

France

The story of Liberation Theology and the Christians in Latin America who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith.

Markov and Hamilton are fellow French Legionnaire's at the end of their posting in Afghanistan.

The Great Toilet Battle

France, Switzerland, Belgium

A powerful portrait of a vibrant young Ukrainian generation, empowered by political change and scarred by war

The Hangman

Israel

Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer, discusses his role in the execution of Nazi death camp administrator Adolf Eichmann.

The Healer's Syndrome

Dr. Moussa Maman, an ethno-psychiatrist who has practiced medicine for 20 years, takes the viewer to Benin, Niger and Senegal to meet some of the faith healers treating AIDS victims.

The Healing Arts: New Pathways to Health

This compelling and evocative documentary profiles a unique program which uses the arts in an innovative treatment approach for people living with chronic, disabling physical and emotional challenges. It integrates technology, writing, music, theater, dance, and other arts into patient care, staff training, and wellness programs.

The Heiresses

Las herederas

Drama, Fiction Paraguay, France, Germany, Norway, Brazil, Uruguay, Italy

United States

Follows longtime collectors and a new generation of buyers from the trading card industry, diving deep into the real-time trading card fever as the hobby goes nuclear.

The Hole Story

Hoyos (Trou Story)

Documentary Canada

Using striking images, rare archival footage, interviews, and humorous social commentary, the directors make a clear case against the way mining has been done in Canada.

The Human Pyramid

Jean Rouch's docu-drama revealing how working together to make a film changes the attitudes of the participants towards each other.

The Human Scale

Acclaimed architect Jan Gehl and his team are on a humanistic mission to reclaim public space in mega cities for pedestrians (and cyclists) rather than cars.

The Ice King

John Curry transformed ice skating from a dated sport into a new artistic medium. Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the first openly gay Olympian.

The Illusion of Abundance

Belgium

Three women's environmental resistance is tireless, even when their life is at risk.

The Inheritors

At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. This is a portrait of their lives and their daily struggle for survival.

The Internationale

Draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change.

The Intolerable Burden

One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the pre-1965 time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of resegregation. **Winner, John E. O'Connor Film Award, American Historical Association**

The Intronauta

El intronauta

Animation Colombia

In a media-soaked world, EL finds solace in drawing. His city-born plant is erased by societal norms, prompting his transformation into El Intronauta.

The Invisible Frame

A filmic journey starring Tilda Swinton as she traces the former Berlin Wall via bicycle.

The Invisible Hand

La mano invisible

Drama, Fiction Spain

With impeccable performances and a surprising ending, The Invisible Hand is an astonishing parable of work in contemporary society.

The Invisible Witness

A slickly successful businessman wakes up next to his dead lover and becomes the chief suspect. His defense lawyer’s never lost a case, but can even she help him?

The Iron Ministry

Filmed over three years on what will soon be the world's largest railway network, traces the vast interiors of China on the move.

The Island Inside

La isla interior

Drama, Fiction, Comedy Spain

A dark-hued family drama set in Spain’s Canary Islands, The Island Inside relates the story of three siblings on the run from themselves. With Pedro Almodovar as their cinematic godfather, the filmmaker duo Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso deliver a superb psychodrama with astounding performances.

The Journalist and Her Jailers

Germany

Luna Watfa, a journalist and former political prisoner living in exile in Germany, reports on incidents of mass detention and torture at the world’s first trial against members of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime.

The Journey of Monalisa

Documentary Chile, United States

Chilean-born performer and writer Iván Monalisa fully embraces his / her dual selves: scrappy, masculine Iván as well as diva, transvestite sex-worker Monalisa.

The Judge

Peabody Award-winner and Emmy nominated THE JUDGE provides rare insight into Shari’a law, an often-misunderstood legal framework for Muslims, told through the eyes of the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s religious courts.

The Key to Dalí

La llave Dalí

Documentary

Spanish scientist Tomeo L'Amo strongly believes he bought an original Dalí. After 25 years of research and interviews with experts he meets the one in Paris that changes his life.

The Kid Who Lies

El chico que miente

Drama, Fiction, Adventure Venezuela

An intimate tale of a young runaway in search of his disappeared mother, The Kid Who Lies works as a metaphor for those still suffering from the 1999 mudslide tragedy, a natural disaster that claimed more than 10,000 victims in the Vargas state of Venezuela.

The Killing of Chico Mendes

The story of rainforest defender, Chico Mendes, that ended with his 1988 assassination.

The Killing of the Pig

La matança del porc

Documentary, Experimental Spain, United States

El último pescador de Taganga

Drama Colombia

One hundred years ago, American teachers established the English-speaking public school system of the Philippines. Now, in a striking turnabout, American schools are recruiting Filipino teachers.

The Learning Path

United States

United States

The Lincoln School Story follows the heroic fight for school desegregation led by a handful of Ohio mothers and their children in 1954.

The Lion Hunters

The Man of the Future

El hombre del futuro

Fiction, Drama Chile, Argentina

Michelsen, an elderly truck driver, sets out on his last trip driving freight to the southern tip of Chilean Patagonia.

The Man with the Golden Cells

Can you cells be patented by someone else? The Man with the Golden Cells looks at John Moore's famous lawsuit over the use of his cells without permission, and the rise of the biotechnology industry.

The Many Lives of Kojin

An Iranian Kurd and political refugee in France, goes to Iraq where accompanied by Kojin, a 23-year-old gay friend, he confronts - with a great sense of humor - his devout family, friends and other members of the Kurdish community with their prejudices against homosexuality.

The Marines

Follows a group of young men from the day they enlist in the US Marine Corps, through basic training.

The Metal Stork

La cigüeña metálica

Documentary Spain, El Salvador

La pantalla desnuda

Drama, Romance, Fiction Nicaragua

Octavio, the son of a poor family, and Alex, the son of a wealthy family in northern Nicaragua, are best friends. Octavio’s fascination with Alex turns into an obsession, and he is quick to sideline anyone or thing that gets in between them.

The Nature of David Suzuki

Portrait of geneticist David Suzuki, host of 'The Nature of Things.'

The Negotiators - How To Make Peace

Switzerland, Spain, Austria

An Aboriginal community struggles to come to terms with a legacy of sexual abuse, incest and family violence.

The Nobodies

Los nadie

Fiction, Drama Colombia

Love, hate, broken promises, and five street-siblings who meet in the middle of a hostile city.

The Notorious Mr. Bout

The Notorious Mr. Bout examines the life of international arms dealer Viktor Bout as he builds his empire under the shadows of the fall of Communism, as a series of governments willingly look the other way.

The Offended

Los ofendidos

Documentary Mexico, El Salvador

An award-winning documentary on the legacy of the internal armed conflict in El Salvador, The Offended features the director’s charismatic father, Rubén Zamora, a key political leader and current Salvadorian Ambassador before the UN who was captured and tortured by the National Police during the country’s civil war.

The Oil Machine

Our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil gets ever more complex as we hurtle towards climate breakdown. Is the era of North Sea oil over?

The Only Doctor

In one of Georgia's poorest and unhealiest counties, Dr. Karen Kinsell struggles to keep her rural clinic open to provide the only local healthcare available for forty miles.

The Only Son

The Netherlands

A Nepalese family torn apart by poverty and hardship overcoming distances with kindness and love.

The Orphan

O órfão

Drama, Fiction Brazil

Episode 12 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death".

The Padilla Affair

El Caso Padilla

Documentary Spain, Cuba

La Habana, 1971: poet Heberto Padilla has just been released from prison and “self-confides” as a counter-revolutionary before the writer’s guild, marking a before and after in the Cuban regime.

The Paper

A year in the life of one of the country's biggest college newspapers, Penn State's The Daily Collegian, as it struggles with declining circulation and difficult choices about how to represent its diverse readership.

The Parabolic Dish

La parabólica

Drama, Fiction Spain

During the broadcast of the Pope`s visit, Vicente’s television is broken. Desperate, he decides to make a homemade parabolic dish.

The Passengers

The story of two Ethiopian Jews trying to reach the homeland.

The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen

THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS provides a window into the life of Angela Bowen who grew up in inner city Boston during the Jim Crow era, and went on to become a classical ballerina, a legendary dance teacher, a Black lesbian feminist activist organizer, writer and professor.

The Path of the Shepherd

La senda del pastor

Documentary Spain

A journey through the vocation of six shepherds who see how the profession they love comes to an end.

When mother of two children Myriam decides to go back to work despite her husband’s initial reluctancy, the couple starts looking for a Nanny.

The Perfumed Garden

An exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society.

The Phantom of the Monastery

El fantasma del convento

Fiction, Drama, Classic, Thriller Mexico

The sexual tension between a trio of friends is being punished by the super natural experiences at an abandoned convent.

The Picture Taker

Meet Erners Withers - iconic civil rights photographer, FBI informant. The Picture Taker reveals the man and motives behind the images.

The Pink House

La Casa Rossada

Drama, Fiction Peru

In 1980s Peru, during a brutal civil war, siblings bravely search for their father, wrongfully accused of terrorism after the killing of his wife.

The Pinochet Case

The story of the landmark legal case against General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, before and after his arrest in London in 1998.

The Pirates of Bubuan

Shohei Imamura's look at rival gangs of pirates in the Philippines.

The Plastic Turtle

La tortuga de plástico

Animation Colombia

People call them "Dropouts." they tell a different story.

The Queen of the Lizards

La reina de los lagartos

Science Fiction, Romance, Comedy, Fiction Spain

The most groundbreaking love story of recent Spanish cinema stars a single mother and an alien.

The R-Word

THE R-WORD is an intimate look at the history of the word ‘retard(ed),’ cultural representation, and the challenges and triumphs of people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The Race to Save the World

From Joe Gantz, the Emmy-winning producer of American Winter and Ending Disease, The Race To Save The World offers an intimate portrait of activists, age 15 to 72, as they put themselves on the line to fight climate change.

The Radio Amateur

El radioaficionado

Drama, Fiction Spain

A young autistic man obsessed with radio engineering tries to find some independence, but crueller forces interfere.

The Rebellion of Memory

La rebelión de la memoria

Documentary Ecuador

The indigenous movement leads the protests against the elimination of the subvention to the gas fuels by the Ecuadorian government.

The Red Soul

Why do so many Russians still defend Stalin as a great leader and a hero? Russians speak openly about Joseph Stalin and their traumas, rooted in a violent history.

The Reformist - A Female Imam

Denmark

The struggles of Sherin, one of the first female Imams in Europe.

The Resolute

An 87 year-old Italian, now retired in the USA, looks back on his long life. Wartime memories trigger recollections of his inconvenient past as a child soldier in the ranks of one the most violent fascist militias and a revelation concerning Mussolini's lost treasure.

The Return

After California's "Three Strikes" law was amended, thousands of lifers were suddenly freed, but re-entry presented problems for the lifers, their families and their communities.

The Return

El regreso

Drama, Fiction, Comedy Costa Rica

A delightful and life-changing journey back to Costa Rica. After living 10 years in New York, 30 year-old Antonio returns to San José where he is forced to deal with the realities he ran away from

The Return of Elder Pingree

A lapsed Mormon retraces the steps he took 25 years ago in Guatemala as a devout missionary to search for the people who once trusted him with their religious faith

The Return of Sara Baartman

After years of unsettling negotiation with France, South Africa finally welcomes home the remains of Sara Baartman in an historic event of repatriation.

The Return of the Cuyahoga

The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.

The Righteous Babes

Explores the intersection of feminism with popular music, focusing on the role of female recording artists in the 1990s and their influence on modern women.

France

Following massacres by the Burmese army in 2017, 740,000 Rohingya fled en masse to neighbouring Bangladesh, which confined them in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp.

The Room of Bones

El Cuarto de los Huesos

Follows the passage of four mothers in the Institute for Legal Medicine as they search for their children’s remains in the midst of three decades of social violence in El Salvador.

The Rose Seller

La vendedora de rosas

Drama, Fiction, Classic Colombia

The revealing story of what happens to the mountain of clothes--castoffs in today's world of fast fashion--that are donated to charity. Few make it to your local charity thrift store.

The Secret of HEMA

The Netherlands

O silêncio da chuva

Fiction, Thriller Brazil

Executive Ricardo is murdered in his car. Two detectives investigate, focusing on people close to the victim. As everyone involved vanishes, the case takes unforeseen twists.

The Singular Story of Unlucky Juan

A comprehensive, accessible examination of the particularities of the Cuban economy.

Documentary Mexico

La chispa en la pradera

Documentary Chile

Sofia Brito’s sexual harassment by a professor sparked a feminist movement in Chilean universities where students protested gender-based violence.

The Spectre of Hope

Critic and writer John Berger and photographer Sebastião Salgado. A searing examination of imagery and images, the abyss, hope, and globalization.

The Spirit of the Ancestors

Te Kuhane o te Tupuna: El espíritu de los ancestros

Documentary Chile

Three generations of the Pakarati family travel to Europe to reclaim the Stolen Friend - one of Rapa Nui's (Easter Island) sacred spirits - which was stolen by colonizers and is one of the countless sacred objects housed in museums worldwide.

The Stateless Diplomat

United States

El dulce sabor del éxito

Documentary Spain

An intimate reflection on the concept of success, with an extraordinary main character and interviews with internationally renowned figures.

The Territories

Los territorios

Documentary Argentina, Brazil

An interview film on the emotion of resentment and how it defines culture and politics today.

The Traffickers

Israel

What motivates a youngster to become a trafficker? This is the story of three young Israelis who made a crucial decision that changed their life forever.

The Transition Period

With unprecedented access to a Communist Party leader, investigative filmmaker Zhou Hao offers a startlingly candid look inside Chinese politics at the local level.

The Travel Agent

Pequeñas mentiras piadosas

Documentary Cuba, Spain, Italy

La visita y un jardín secreto

Documentary Spain, Portugal

This award-winning portrait of forgotten Spanish painter Isabel Santaló reflects on memory, oblivion, and creating while pondering female artmaking.

The Visitors

Every Friday night about 800 people, mostly women and children, almost all of them African American and Latino, gather in Manhattan for the long journey to rural New York to visit their loved ones in prison.

The Voice of Nature

The Voice of Nature explores the latest scientific discoveries about the inner life and behavior of animals and addresses ethical questions about how we should use this knowledge.

The Vow from Hiroshima

Marking the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, this is an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of Hiroshima, who has devoted her life to ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

The Wall: The Effect of its Imposing Presence on Migrant Families

Documentary United States

A firsthand look at the reality of the Hispanic population in the United States and the current undocumented immigration crisis, touching on topics such as the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the effects of family separation at the border, deportation, and DACA.

The War Symphonies

Shostakovich's musical counter-attack on Stalin's bloody purges.

The War on Cuba

The outcome of the 2020 US presidential elections could hinge on Trump’s policy toward Cuba. Yet major media outlets have failed to report on his onslaught against the island, not to mention the money and interests driving it.

The Water

El agua

Science Fiction, Drama, Comedy, Fiction Argentina

A man wakes up in a world where water has disappeared, however, everyone acts like nothing happened.

The Way Things Go

Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss built an enormous, precarious structure out of common household items and then, with fire, water, gravity and chemistry, they created a spectacular chain reaction.

The Way We Die: Listening to the Terminally Ill

Intimate and movingly filmed interactions between medical personnel and their terminally ill patients encourages health professionals to work with their patients in determing end-of-life care.

The Wealth of Nations: A New Gospel?

Adam Smith was both economist and moral philosopher. But his work on morality is largely forgotten, leading to tragic distortions that have shaped our global economic system. (Episode 2 of the Capitalism series)

The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer

An animated tale of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven them to existential extremes.

The Welles Raft

A jangada de Welles

Documentary Brazil

During Orson Welles' filming of It's All True in Brazil, a fishermen's raft vanishes at sea, evoking memories of dictatorship, WWII, and labor rights battles.

The Whale and the Raven

As the people in the Great Bear Rainforest struggle to protect their territory against the pressure and promise of the gas industry, caught in between are the countless beings that call this place home.

The Whistleblower of My Lai

The film follows the Kronos Quartet’s production of Jonathan Berger and Harriet Chessman’s opera My Lai, which takes at its heart the actions and life of the whistleblower who revealed the 1968 massacre by U.S. troops in Vietnam.

The Widowed Witch

Cai Chengjie’s deadpan fairy tale takes on the contradictions of superstition and the furious chimera of women’s power to conjure an intriguing magic.

The Will

Denmark

Three poor brothers and an inheritance; is blood thicker than money?

The Wind Blows the Border

Venta na fronteira

Documentary Brazil

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a battle wages between agribusiness and indigenous sovereignty.

The Winds That Scatter

Ahmad Chahrour plays a refugee from Syria that shares his name.

The Wisdom to Survive

Examines the challenges that climate change poses and discusses meaningful action that can be taken by individuals and communities.

The World According to China

What will the world look like with China as economic leader?

The World According to Mark Rothko

A legendary 20th century artist, Mark Rothko assigned himself the task of creating a representation of the human tragedy through the most abstract painting there is.

The World We Wanted

United States

Students who participated in the New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum reunite 62 years after their 1959 television broadcast.

The Written Face

Offers an insight into the Japanese Kabuki star Tamasaburo Bando, one of the last defenders of this ancient and disappearing performing tradition.

The Year of the Discovery

El año del descubrimiento

Documentary Spain

Citizens of Cartagena recount the events of the 1992 riots.

The Year of the Radio

El año del radio

Animation, Fiction, Drama Mexico

Mexico in the '90s. Seven-year-old Alex and his little siblings are left in the care of their senile Aunt Lola, while their mother works as a host on a radio station.

The Yellow Wallpaper

This short dramatic film brings to life the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman story, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, which has become an important addition to American literature course curricula.

There Are Jews Here

There Are Jews Here, a film by Brad Lichtenstein and Morgan Johnson, follows the untold stories of four once thriving American Jewish communities that are now barely holding on. Struggling with aging congregants and dwindling interest, families are moving to larger cities with more robust congregations and vibrant Jewish life.

There Goes the Neighborhood

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD intimately follows an extended Black family of View Park-Windsor Hills, California as they experience changes due to gentrification and reflect on their shifting community.

There is a Border in my Backyard

Denmark

A warm-hearted tale of a small border community who suddenly finds themselves on one of the scalding political stages of Western Europe today.

There is a Place

Singer-songwriter Lior Tsarfaty engages Alzheimer's care communities in music, song, and dance

These Walls

Estos muros

Documentary Spain

During the Franco regime, Penalty Redemption through Labour was a legal device that allowed public and private companies to use republican prisoners as forced labor. Pascual exposes how this device was used in virtually all economic sectors throughout the country.

They Are We

Anthropologist's film reunites a family 200 years after they were torn apart by the transatlantic slave trade.

They Call Me Muslim

THEY CALL ME MUSLIM highlights how women still must struggle for the right to control their own bodies – not only under theocratic regimes, but also in secular, democratic countries where increasing discrimination against Muslims and sexism intersect.

They Called Me King Tiger: A Biography of the Chicano Malcolm X

Me llamaban el Rey Tigre

Documentary Mexico

This is Cristina

Ella es Cristina

Comedy, Drama, Fiction Chile

Três veroes

Fiction, Drama, Comedy Brazil

Regina Casé will rely on her eye for opportunity in this brilliant comedy about gross class disparity and the infinite resourcefulness of those who never take anything for granted.

Through Ernesto's Eyes

Aos Olhos de Ernesto

Drama, Fiction Brazil

United States

Dissecting one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape, TIKTOK, BOOM. examines the algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural influences and impact of the history-making app.

Til Kingdom Come

The controversial bond between Evangelicals and Jews in a story of faith, power, and money

Timber Gang (Last Lumberjacks)

Yu Guangyi's stunning debut explores a grueling winter amongst loggers in Northeast China, as they work with traditional methods through one last, fateful expedition.

Time For Ilhan

One woman’s quest to become the first Somali Muslim lawmaker in the United States

Time Immemorial

United States

Presents the case of the Nisga tribe in their long fight for aboriginal rights in British Columbia.

Time Theorem

Teorema de tiempo

Documentary Mexico

Years after the death of my grandmother Anita, I found thousands of photographs and hundreds of home movies. The images revealed their secret profession as amateur filmmakers.

Time Thieves

Reveals how companies monetize our time without our knowledge and how the social networks have, in their own words, become ‘the new clockmakers’.

Time of Pandemics

Explores the quest for an HIV vaccine in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Time of the Locust

Critically examines American involvement in Vietnam through a compilation of American, Japanese and Vietnamese combat footage.

Timecode

Drama, Comedy, Fiction Spain

Luna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day.

Tinghir Jerusalem

Filmmaker and historian Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished - and confronts fundamental questions of his own identity in the process.

To Be Seen

A lively study of visual culture, and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. What is art's role in the context of public space and urban culture?

To Be of Service

A feature-length documentary about veterans suffering from PTSD, who are paired with a service dog to help them regain their lives.

To Kill A Tiger

Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape.

To See If I'm Smiling

Israel

In this vivid portrait of China's musical heritage, Sichuan Opera performers strive to keep a centuries-old artform alive.

Torture Made in USA

A disturbing examination of the the United States policy of torture under the cover of "War on Terror."

Tosco

Documentary Argentina

Germany, Russia

Introduces Western viewers to the small and prototypical provincial Russian town of Yelnya, where people admire Vladimir Putin for making Russia great again.

Toxic Trespass

Intrepid filmmaker Barri Cohen launches an investigation into the effects of the chemical soup around us.

Toxicily

Italy

In the shadows of the lovely city of Syracuse, Sicily, lies one of Europe’s largest petrochemical complexes; 70 years after the arrival of the first refineries, the area seems to have been abandoned to its fate as poison taints the sky, water and land.

Tracking Edith

Director Peter Jungk's Austrian-born great aunt, Edith Tudor-Hart, was a talented documentary photographer. And, as he learns 20 years after her death in 1973, a KGB spy.

Transit Zone' is an authentic insight into the life in the jungle of Calais from the perspective of 'Teefa', a refugee from Sudan.

Travels in the Congo (Voyage au Congo)

This newly restored landmark of documentary film presents a largely observational record of colonial French Equatorial Africa in the 1920s.

Travis

The inspirational story of a 10-year-old boy with full-blown AIDS.

Tre Maison Dasan

An intimate portrait of three boys growing up, each with a parent in prison.

Trees in Trouble

The first film to document how a city responds to the imminent tree crisis caused by invasive insects such as the emerald ash borer.

Triana, Pure and Pure

Triana, pura y pura

Documentary, Musical Spain

This joyful film memorializes the end of an indomitable lineage in a unique flamenco soiree, transformed into a tribute to a disappeared world.

Tribute to Alfred Lepetit

A breezy short mockumentary with an all-star cast paying tribute to a behind-the-scenes superhero.

Trick Bag

Gang members, Vietnam vets, and young factory workers talk about their personal experience with racism - who gets hurt and who profits.

Trinity

United States

Norway

How did young entrepreneur and media darling Waleed Ahmed end up being arrested by the FBI and sentenced to 11 years in prison?

Truth Tellers

Chronicles the lives of courageous Americans fighting for peace, racial equity, environmental justice and indigenous rights through the eyes of Robert Shetterly, a long time activist and artist.

Documentary

The tale of two breaths: that of Iratxe Sorzabal and her mother, Mari Nieves Díaz. Each has suffered the lack of breath caused by torture, together with other kinds of suffering.

Two Films on Challenges in Nursing

Explores an innovative clinical affilitation between nursing homes and universities.

Two Gods

A Muslim mortician uses the rituals of death to teach two young men how to live better lives

Two Kids a Day

Israel

Documents the Israeli repression of Palestinian society through the sytematic arrest and interrogation of Palestinian minors.

Two Women and a Cow

Dos mujeres y una vaca

Fiction, Drama Colombia

Two illiterate women travel to the nearby town looking for someone to read a letter they received. During the trip their plans are unexpectedly changed.

Two Worlds - One Planet

This documentary brings Autism syndrome out of the shadows, stressing that young people with developmental disabilities can learn and grow, if their individual needs, styles, and abilities are respected.

Two Worlds Colliding

Chronicles Saskatoon's infamous "freezing deaths," when police abandoned Aboriginals outside of town in the depths of winter.

Tyrus

His art inspired Bambi, his life will inspire you

UE/Wells

The record of an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago.

Ultraviolette and the Blood-Spitters Gang

France

From filmmaker Ignacio Aguero, UNDER CONSTRUCTION is about the passing of time and the transformation of a space where minor and major events occur: a death and a birth; neighborhoods disappearing; buildings being demolished and built; winters and springs passing.

Under the Sun

A fascinating portrait of one North Korean girl and her parents in the year as she prepares to join the Korean Children's Union on Kim Jong-Il's birthday.

Underdog

The curiously optimistic tale of Doug Butler—a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer who risks losing the only home he's ever known to chase his dreams of dog mushing in Alaska

Documentary, Series Germany

Undo Motherhood explores the reasons why a significant number of women around the world today, in spite of loving their children, regret becoming mothers.

Unfinished Diary

In this moving docudrama, Chilean emigre Mallet struggles to make a film about her experience of profound isolation

Unfinished Spaces

Multi-layered story of Cuba's National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution.

Unguarded

UNGUARDED takes us inside the walls of APAC, the revolutionary Brazilian prison system centered on the full recovery and rehabilitation of the person.

Unspoken Tears: Trauma Through Words

How can refugee children integrate into Quebec’s school system, given the unspeakable violence they’ve experienced?

Untouched

Sombra verde

Fiction, Drama, Romance, Adventure Mexico

A romance set in the jungle around Veracruz, where a scientist searches for barbasco roots. Lost in the interior, he meets a machete-wielding stranger and his beautiful daughter.

Up on the Mountain

Up on the Mountain is a feature length documentary that follows three different groups of commercial mushroom pickers as they travel on the “mushroom circuit”—a year-round migration that can take them anywhere from Alaska to California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming—to harvest wild mushrooms from public forests.

Up to G-Cup - Inside the First Lingerie-Store in Iraq

The Netherlands

Iraqi women discuss lingerie and life beyond the veil.

Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance

Celebrating the African roots, history, lineage and future progressions of jazz dance through a social and political lens

Uranium

The consequences of uranium mining.

Uranium Derby

United States

A filmmaker discovers that her hometown of Ames, IA, was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project.

Urgent Love

Amor urgente

Comedy, Fiction, Romance Argentina

Fresh and endearing, Urgent Love uses highly original photography and exceptional artwork to create the playful world where Agustina and Pedro fall in love. Everything is intentionally exposed in this subtle, intelligent, and entertaining comedy that dares to be different.

Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own

An artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture.

Us Kids

Determined to turn tragedy into action, survivors of a school shooting catalyze an unprecedented youth movement that spreads like wildfire across the world

Us, Them, and Me

NEY: Nosotros, ellos, yo

Documentary Argentina

Led by insatiable curiosity, Nicolás Avruj's family vacation to Tel Aviv transforms into a months-long journey into Gaza and the West Bank. With only his camera as company, he becomes a guest in the homes of both Palestinians and Israelis, immersing himself in their daily lives without prejudice.

Users

United States

Cinematic meditation on technology and motherhood.

Van Gogh

The film charts the life and spiritual odyssey of one of the great modern painters purely through use of his paintings.

Vicente Ruiz: A tiempo real

Documentary Chile

An exploration of the social role of art through one of the leading figures of the Chilean counterculture of the 1980s: Vicente Ruiz.

Video-Dérives: Sol

Video-dérives: Sol

Documentary, Experimental Spain

Israel

The first in a new series from the makers of 'Shift Change', WEconomics: Italy reports on the extensive and innovative cooperative economy in the region around Bologna.

WINN

United States

Niña errante

Fiction, Drama Colombia

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a battle wages between agribusiness and indigenous sovereignty.

War Animals

Animales de guerra

Drama, Fiction Colombia

The night before the wrestling final, Antonio and Rubén, stuck in a hotel, search for distractions from their desires as they wander.

War In The Mind

Gives voice to soldiers living with PTSD to help erase the stigma, examines the growing number of military suicides, and shows a successful group therapy program.

War and Peace

A journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism and war.

War is Over

Germany

Jordan

Watan (Homeland) explores two of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan - Zaatari and Azraq - along with neighbouring city Jerash, to paint intimate portraits of the men, women and children who have found themselves there.

Water Detectives

Young students learn that their local conservation efforts can have far-reaching results.

Water First

An inspiring story from Malawi shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

Drama, Fiction Spain

In the midst of nature, between tears and laughter, Barbara will heal old wounds and redefine her sexuality after a traumatic event.

Waterproof

Immersive and cinematic, Waterproof is the story of one community’s crusade to create a safe swimming environment in East Hampton, New York.

Waves of Revolution

Waves of Revolution made during the repressive days of the Emergency in India documents the 1974-75 uprising of the people of Bihar in Eastern India.

Way Back Home

La vuelta a casa

Drama, Fiction Brazil

A retiree waits for a visit from family that doesn't happen. His gardener offers him a lift home, but when he gets there, a surprise jogs his memory.

Ways of Being Home

An evocative audiovisual meditation on the experience of Mexican immigrants living and working in rural America.

We All Fall Down

The rise and fall of America's mortgage system and the damage in the wake of its collapse. With Nouriel Roubini, Richard Sylla and Chris Mayer.

We All Like Plantain

A todos nos gusta el plátano

Documentary, Experimental Spain

Seven black people living in Spain try to craft a film that delves into self-representation. A powerful exploration of identity and community.

We Are Fire

Documentary Belgium, Luxembourg

Mar Maremoto, a vibrant force of queer punk energy, tackles machismo, fat-shaming, and norms through her dynamic artwork from cartoons to murals.

We Are Mari Pepa

Somos Mari Pepa

Comedy, Drama, Fiction, Musical, Classic Mexico

Alex has big plans for his summer in Guadalajara. He'll get a girlfriend and a new job, learn a new song with his band, Mari Pepa, and win the ”battle of the bands” concert.

We Are Not Ghosts

Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world.

We Are The Radical Monarchs

Follows the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice.

We Are Unarmed

A fresh look at the Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

We Are the ... of Communism

(Wo Men Shi Gong Chan Zhu Yi Sheng Lue Hao)

The mysterious closing of a Beijing school sends hundreds of migrant children on a desperate struggle to reclaim their right to an education.

We Exist: Beyond the Binary

What if the world told you that you don’t exist?

We Have Reached The Moment

Youth activist Vic Barrett struggles to convince his father that the climate crisis is real

We Need It Yesterday

Para ayer

Fiction, Comedy Spain

An emerging production company is ready to do whatever it takes in order to get the job from an award-winning advertising agency.

We Still Have the Deep Black Night

Ainda tenemos a imensidao da noite

Drama, Fiction Brazil

Documentary United States

An intimate portrait of a day in the life of two DACA recipients whose lives were thrown into limbo after the program was rescinded on September 5, 2017.

What If Babel Was Just a Myth?

The societies that populate the heart of the African continent form such a mosaic that it is not uncommon to meet villagers speaking six to seven languages. But how much longer will this last?

What If Marx Was Right?

Have we gotten Marx wrong by focusing on the Communist Manifesto instead of on his critique of how capitalism works - a critique that is relevant and as penetrating as ever? (Episode 4 of the Capitalism series)

What Remains on the Way

Lo que queda en el camino

Documentary Germany, Brazil

Lilian and her four children join a caravan of thousands trying to reach the Mexico-US border with the hope to migrate in search for a better life.

The Netherlands

Meet three very different people with their experiences in the moments between life and death.

When Memory Comes: A Film About Saul Friedlander

A film about historian Saul Friedlander and his lifelong quest to describe the extermination of the European Jews without losing or repressing a primary feeling of disbelief.

When Parents Can't Fix It

Looks at the stresses and rewards in the lives of five families who are raising children with disabilities. A realistic look at different family strengths and coping styles.

When You No Longer Love Me

Cuando dejes de quererme

Fiction, Romance Spain

While investigating her father's death, Laura learns of the Spanish hard times during the ETA's war against the Franquist Regime, and her family's possible involvement in those crimes.

When a Tree Falls (Amama)

Amama

Drama, Fiction Spain

This powerfully visualized drama of generational conflict signals the emergence of a vital Basque regional cinema in Spain.

Drama, Fiction Brazil, Portugal

A deep friendship grows between two Portuguese women living in Brazil, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an unknown country and a longing for home.

Where Truth Lies

A dramatic case before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Where's I. W. Abel?

The opposition of the rank-and-file to the no-strike agreement between Steelworkers President I.W. Abel and the ten major steel companies.

Sauve qui peut

Belgium, France, Switzerland

In the CHUV training center in Lausanne, «fake» patients and «real» caretakers simulate medical consultations, to learn how to perform kindness. But in an increasingly liberal hospital system, which itself exerts violence on medical staff, is this relational ideal really possible?

Who Made You

Finland

What is human, and what is made by humans - and who made you, really?

Who Will Write Our History

Resistance comes in many forms

Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker is a thoughtful and creative film biography/essay on the late outlaw writer and punk icon.

Who's Next?

Examines the effects of hate speech and bigotry on the lives of Muslim-Americans.

Why

ЧОМУ

Documentary Spain

The war in Ukraine told through the eyes of Ukrainian women.

Why Women Stay

Examines the complex reasons why women remain in violent homes and challenges the prevailing attitudes which accept domestic violence as well as the social structures which perpetuate it.

Wilaya

Drama, Fiction Spain

With unprecedented access to the Sahrawi community, Pedro Pérez Rosado, provides a voice to this unrepresented group of refugees living in a Saharan refugee camp and their struggle for independence.

Chico ventana también quisiera tener un submarino

Comedy, Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction, Experimental Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, The Netherlands, The Philippines

Con mi corazón en Yambo

Documentary Ecuador

In 1988, director María Fernanda Restrepo's two brothers—then 14 and 17—vanished without a trace. Decades later, Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story.

With Peter Bradley

United States

79 years old and overlooked since the 1970’s, abstract artist Peter Bradley reflects on life and shares his artistic process on the cusp of his rediscovery.

With You, With You and Without Me

Contigo, contigo y sin mi

Documentary, Drama, Comedy, Animation, Romance Spain

Amaya reflects on four love relationships over 20 years, blending documentary and animation to explore love, guilt, and evolution of relationships.

Without Precedent

United States

An account of the life and career of Rosalie Abella, a former member of the Supreme Court of Canada, who immigrated to Canada as a child after her parents survived the Holocaust.

Without Prescription

Receta no incluida

Drama, Fiction Puerto Rico

Olivia's obsessive-compulsive voice in her head, which was under control, suddenly returns, prompting a search for the pills that once helped.

Without a Whisper

WITHOUT A WHISPER - KONNON:KWE is the untold story of the profound influence of Indigenous women on the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States.

Wiñay

Drama, Fiction Bolivia

Two women journey to the jungle for an Ayahuasca ritual; their challenges lead them to self-discovery through spiritual transformation and resilience.

Young people are writing apps to solve problems from reproductive health care in South Africa to helping young minority adults in London who are 'stopped and searched.'

Worlds Apart

A series on cross-cultural healthcare. These four unique trigger films raise awareness about how cultural barriers affect patient-provider communication and other aspects of care for patients of diverse backgrounds.

Worlds Apart: Alicia Mercado’s Story

Part 4 of a series on cross-cultural healthcare and how cultural barriers affect patient-provider communication and other aspects of care for patients of diverse backgrounds.

Worlds Apart: Justine Chitsena’s Story

Part 3 of a series on cross-cultural healthcare and how cultural barriers affect patient-provider communication and other aspects of care for patients of diverse backgrounds.

Worlds Apart: Mohammad Kochi's Story

Documentary Argentina, Italy

Soccer unites the worlds of La Boca, Buenos Aires, and Genoa, Italy, through extraordinary passion. Famous footballers share their testimonies in this documentary.

Xmas Without China

Explores the intersection of consumerism and immigration in American culture.

Xu Bing: Phoenix

Documents the process of creating Xu Bing's monumental bird sculpture through to its installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

YOUTH v GOV

21 young Americans are suing the government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate. If they win, they will change the future.

Being a journalist is an increasingly dangerous job; how can journalists arm themselves against the dangers and continue to do their jobs? French journalist Laurent Richard is one of the first to advocate a different approach to investigative journalism.

You See Me

Filmmaker Linda Brown’s father embodied 1960s masculinity. But when a devastating stroke leaves him vulnerable and dependent, Brown decides to confront the silence surrounding his troubled and violent past.

You Will Be My Ally

Domé, a 35 year-old woman from Gabon, is intercepted at the airport in Brussels. Is she forging her passport or will she be allowed into Belgium?

You Will Be Swedish, My Daughter

A Syrian refugee couple tell the story of their exile to Sweden to their youngest daughter, Sally. They recount their journey as migrants being smuggled across borders, evoke memories of their beloved Syria, and talk of the violence which is present at all times. What will they remember? What will they tell their children about the past?

You and Me

Tú y yo

Documentary, Comedy, Drama Dominican Republic

The Mrs., a 70-year-old widow, and Aridia, her young maid, live in isolation in a house in Santo Domingo where domestic chores keep them occupied.

Young Freud in Gaza

Profiles Ayed, a young psychotherapist for the Palestinian Authority's Clinic for Mental Health, in the Gaza Strip.

Your Day is My Night

In this provocative, hybrid documentary, the audience joins a present-day household of immigrants living together in a shift-bed apartment in the heart of Chinatown.

Your Mother's Comfort

“We transgender are the revolution!” Indianara Siqueira, trans activist and politician, admonishes her political party for ousting her days before the 2018 Brazilian national elections. In the same election cycle extreme-Right candidate Jair Bolsonaro is a forerunner for president of the republic. Indianara is the mother of a homeless shelter and community center for trans sex workers called Nem House in the center of Rio de Janeiro. Nem House is a squat and facing the threat of eviction Indianara occupies a colonial palace near Nem House to bargain with the city to save the house. As Brazilian democracy crumbles around her she fights to save her community from the uncertain streets.

Youth tell their stories of growing up with violence.

Yuxweluptun

A profile of artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and his very political work

Yvy Maraey Land Without Evil

Yvy Maraey, tierra sin mal

Drama, Fiction, Adventure Bolivia

A Bolivian filmmaker and a Guaraní Indian travel together through the forests of southeastern Bolivia to make a film about the Guaraní people.

Zero Degrees of Separation

Breaks with the sensationalistic media coverage of the violence in the Middle East by documenting the everyday lives of two mixed gay Palestinian-Israeli couples.

Documents how an Arab country and a Muslim society continue, against all odds, to take care with grace and innocence of a millennial Jewish heritage after the departure of most of its Jews from Morocco.

Zoila

Documentary Chile

When Gabriela discovers that Zoila, her childhood Mapuche indigenous nanny, doesn’t appear in the family tapes, she begins to question her mother's social construct.

Zona Franca

Zona Franca is a large outdated shopping district at the heart of the Chilean province located near the Strait of Magellan. Everywhere this area shows the scars of the upheaval which transformed the last wild place of the original America into a window display of today’s commercial society. Among the wreckage of history and the tourists on a quest to discover the end of the world, a gold prospector and a truck driver resist the change.

Zurita, verás no ver

Documentary Chile

National Literature Award Laureate Raúl Zurita is not only one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial living poets; he is also a rocker, a human rights activist, a public figure, and a tireless struggler. This documentary is an account of his travels and daily life, as he reflects on topics such as state terrorism and death.

[CENSORED]

Birth, sex and violence were cut from films by the Australian Censorship Board from 1958-1971 and went unseen...until now.

[M]otherhood

Documentary Spain

Women share their experiences and reasons for rejecting traditional motherhood ideals.

[Non] Human Person

Persona [No] Humana

Documentary Spain

Sandra and Cecilia have spent their lives in captivity without committing a crime. An NGO fights for their release. The catch: they're not human.

black enuf*

A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials

ithaka

Australia

A moving and intimate portrayal of one father’s fight to save his son, ithaka exposes the brutal realities of the campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up

The story of the killing of young Cree man Colten Boushie and his family's pursuit of justice.

s-yéwyáw: Awaken

Canada

This character-driven documentary connects the transformative stories of three Indigenous multimedia changemakers and their four Elders.

Ô saisons, ô châteaux

This early Agnès Varda short looks at the castles of the Loire Valley.