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At the age of 14, Natalie Chao lost her mother to clinical depression. Traces of her exist in old miniDV camcorder footage, some of which…
MORE ›The filmmaker spends a year filming a family of five in their modest home in rural China. All except the eldest daughter have AIDS. Without…
MORE ›Through clips and conversation, Kirsten Johnson discusses her role as a documentary cinematographer and details the many creative iterations that ultimately led to Cameraperson and The Above.
MORE ›There’s a moment in this extraordinary film by Tamar Yaron when you will realize the horrifying meaning of its title. That moment brings into focus,…
MORE ›Set in an older section of Watts, Los Angeles, To Sleep with Anger tells the fable of a trickster coming to town to steal souls.…
MORE ›Depicting the contemporary lives of several local tobacco farmers, Tobacco Money Feeds My Family makes the convincing case that one cannot truly tell the story…
MORE ›In one of the first films that Richard Leacock wrote, directed, photographed, and edited, the filmmaker achieves an absorbing level of intimacy and immediacy in…
MORE ›In this quietly arresting film, three blind women in Havana, Cuba, share their heartbreaks and hopes, and navigate their profound desire for independence.
MORE ›Inseparable eleven-year-old cousins and best friends, Leh and Bo, face a harsh reality: one will go to a monastery and one will go to school, sequestered from each other and their families. Filmmaker Anna Rodgers spent four years in Laos with the boys as they grew up and apart.
MORE ›In the Lubombo region of Swaziland, where forty percent of the population is HIV positive and life expectancy has dropped to thirty-two years, elderly women…
MORE ›Meet Tom Dowd, audio-engineering wunderkind. From recording “race records” and jazz in the segregated South to capturing rock and jazz legends to helping develop the…
MORE ›Beautifully scripted by Horton Foote, Tomorrow tells a story of love, loss, generosity and perseverance. In Mississippi, a helpful, quiet farmer (Duvall) befriends a pregnant…
MORE ›The life of an institution for long-term mental care is portrayed through a day’s worth of encounters between patients and their caregivers. As the institution…
MORE ›A personal-essay documentary, threaded with poetry, song, dance, and monologue, fueled by rage and tenderness. The landmark work of the established journalist and documentarian-turned-artist Marlon…
MORE ›In this deft and stirring portrait, candid interviews with the legendary author, as well as colleagues and contemporaries, celebrate Morrison’s inimitable writing career and its profound impact on American literature.
MORE ›In “Tonsler Park,” Kevin Jerome Everson trains his black-and-white 16 mm camera on the activity around voting precincts in Charlottesville, Virginia (future site of the infamous white supremacist Unite the Right rally), on Election Day, November 8, 2016—a day that would prove pivotal in the course of American democracy. Capturing, in detail, the vital work of mostly Black civil servants and citizens engaging in the democratic process, Everson pointedly centers their participation in a system that has long sought to disenfranchise them.
MORE ›A riveting behind-the-scenes look at the well-known business strategist’s once-a-year seminar “Date With Destiny,” where some 2,500 attendees prepare to change their lives.
MORE ›The rich tradition of Indian masking by African Americans in New Orleans Mardi Gras has a history rooted in African culture and close ties to…
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