Films
When Marti DeBergi set out in 1984 to capture “the sights, the sounds, and the smells” of British rock band Spinal Tap, what he ended…
MORE ›This Sporting Life, Lindsay Anderson’s feature film debut following years of documentary work, centers on down-and-out coal miner Frank Machin, masterfully portrayed by a young…
MORE ›The Lucille and James Thomas film was made in Walls, Mississippi, where they owned and operated the Thomas Grocery and Gulf Station. James Thomas, an…
MORE ›Acclaimed and endlessly inventive director Michel Gondry trains the camera on his own family—in particular, his aunt Suzette. A schoolteacher in France for over thirty…
MORE ›A Thousand Cuts examines current events in the Philippines, where President Duterte’s war on drugs has resulted in the murders of thousands. With staggering access, the film juxtaposes the stories of two political candidates who support Duterte’s administration with the intrepid work of journalist Maria Ressa and her team at the online news site Rappler, who report the facts in a climate where the truth, and those who expose it, are both under fire.
MORE ›Counter to cultural tradition, a resilient Afghan woman in her early 20s publicly speaks out against years of sexual abuse suffered at the hands of her father.
MORE ›Filmmaker Melba Williams regrets her life-long lack of communication with her father, especially after a stroke silences his memories. Rodney Williams didn’t have many career…
MORE ›A chance encounter leads three teenagers to discover that they are in fact triplets. Sharing this undeniable bond, they become fast friends and embark upon living their lives together, but the roots of their separation prove to be more sinister than they could have imagined.
MORE ›Sam, Steven and Samantha are married to each other. They share an apartment, a business and two children. Samantha has one baby with each father.…
MORE ›In this moving short film, Elizabeth and Gulistan Mirzaei shine a light on life for refugees in modern-day Afghanistan through the story of a young…
MORE ›This invaluable document is a journey through the African American family photo album: its political, social, and artistic history; its stories of loss, self-invention, community, and beauty.
MORE ›The artist collective Postcommodity examines lines, origins, and the people to whom land really belongs with a two-mile-long installation of inflatable spheres high above the U.S.–Mexico border.
MORE ›Former members of Houston’s renowned Kashmere Stage Band, arguably the nation’s best high- school jazz and funk band in the 1970s, get together for a reunion concert in honor of beloved band director Conrad Johnson in this fast-paced, toe-tapping funk celebration.
MORE ›A priest bears witness to the personal stories of people in a mid-American town: Heartbreak, regret, faith, resignation all resonate profoundly in this succession of exquisitely photographed scenes of intimate communion.
MORE ›Habitués of a municipal bath house in Paris, in their distinctive styles, shave, shower, comb their hair, and dress. Naturally, they philosophize about existence, their…
MORE ›A layered and lyrical look at photographer Tierney Gearon, the dynamics of family, and the creation of her latest body of work. The accidental art…
MORE ›Tiger highlights an Indigenous award-winning, internationally acclaimed artist and elder, Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger t-shirt company.
MORE ›Follow big cat specialist Dr. Alan Rabinowitz deep into the dangerous Sundarbans forest on the border of Indian and Bangladesh, where he hopes his work will help save endangered wild tigers.
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