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Kimberley Motley is a former beauty queen, other of three—and the only foreign lawyer licensed to litgate in Afghan courts.
MORE ›In an isolated fairground, a monstrous barrel materializes from a heap of wooden planks. Inside, motorbikes and cars power around steep ovals in a dizzying…
MORE ›Elahe returns to her hometown in Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents move to a new place after 40 years. Influenced by the Woman-Life-Freedom movement, she’s also hoping for a bigger move beyond just a new apartment.
MORE ›Taut muscles that ripple underneath skin, joints that move fluidly: The motions of the human body are so instinctual, until they aren’t. Dancer and director…
MORE ›Film critic and North Carolina native Godfrey Cheshire’s cousin Charlie (aka Pooh) decides to transport the family’s historic Midway Plantation. The monumental decision sparks an…
MORE ›Images of foamy breakers, of the changing seasons across meadow and linksland, of a monument to a 1928 sea rescue turned tragic—with these, filmmaker Collis…
MORE ›This sobering political documentary follows Joseph Cao, the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress, during his 2010 long-shot reelection bid to represent Louisiana’s predominantly African…
MORE ›An icon of United States politics, Barry Goldwater is considered by some to have been the founder of contemporary conservatism. Unrestricted and brutally honest, Goldwater…
MORE ›Revealing rehearsals and passionate performances bring to light the complex genius of choreographer Ohad Naharin, who helped revolutionize contemporary dance.
MORE ›As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
MORE ›Director Anne Paas’s simply made, home-movie-style story celebrates the beauty that never leaves people, regardless of age. Sweet and heartfelt, the film follows the series…
MORE ›Legendary Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado graced the airwaves for decades, donning elegant robes and broadcasting his charming, comforting presence to millions of viewers. A foundational figure in Latin American television, his popular shows were a cultural mainstay until he mysteriously disappeared in 2007. Now, with this intimate invitation into Mercado’s world, the dynamic, gender-fluid icon returns to the screen in a humorous and touching examination of a life fully lived.
MORE ›The American obsession with celebrity—be it movies or rock and roll—cuts wide and deep. So it should come as no surprise that a group of…
MORE ›After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art.
MORE ›Twelve-year old Collier Boyle’s testimony put his father in jail for the 1989 murder of his mother. Still imprisoned more than 25 years later, the father maintains his innocence, and Boyle returns to his Ohio hometown, in this sensitive examination of reconciling with the past.
MORE ›Imagine losing the use of one’s legs, torso, possibly hands—in an instant. Imagine losting them as an Olympic athlete. Murderball is the incredible journey of…
MORE ›There is more than meets the ear in these vivid and surprising accounts of performance and
perseverance in the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music scene.