Films
Portuguese filmmaker Graça Castanheira considers our relationship to Earth and our place in the universe in a stunning visual essay.
MORE ›Shot clandestinely in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), Anonymously Yours weaves together with brutal honesty the stories of four Burmese women who tell of their…
MORE ›From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, “colored and…
MORE ›In the Japanese army, “ant soldiers” were those fighting men, many of them drafted, who performed the lowest and dirtiest jobs of war. Some of…
MORE ›One chilly spring morning, Tomek, a six-year-old boy on his scooter, romps through the neighborhood park and encounters some of its white-haired regulars. Tomek hoists…
MORE ›Pat Mire teams up with veteran filmmaker and cinematographer Charles Bush to capture the natural drama of handfishing in this documentary. Highly visual, the film…
MORE ›A teenager’s parents tell her time and again that she can grow up to be anything she wants to be. Through playful, yet troubling, reenactments,…
MORE ›Interweaving super 8 family films, archival material, and experimental animation, a granddaughter takes a deep dive into the remarkable life of her indomitable grandmother— a writer, WWII refugee and Holocaust survivor. Anyuka (Hungarian for mother) explores intergenerational trauma, the Jewish diaspora, immigration, motherhood, and religious identity, to tell the story of a tragic and marvelous life across continents.
MORE ›In the Midwest, against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic and rising incarceration rates, three women navigate the challenges of mothering their children from prison. With poignant sensitivity, this film follows them as they prepare to reunite with their families and rebuild relationships after years of separation.
MORE ›When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? Apocalypse in the Tropics investigates the increasingly powerful grip that faith leaders hold over politics in Brazil. Weaving past and present, it holds up an uncanny mirror to the rest of the world.
MORE ›The Apollo chronicles the legacy of New York City’s landmark Apollo Theater, covering the rich history of the storied performance space over its 85 years. What began as a refuge for marginalized artists emerged as a hallowed hall of Black excellence and empowerment. In the film, Williams reflects on the struggle of Black lives in America, the role that art plays in that struggle, and the part the Apollo Theater continues to play in the cultural conversation.
MORE ›Blurring the lines of truth and speculation, reality and myth, this investigative journey seeks to unravel the mysteries around an amazing archaeological find by a Gaza fisherman in 2013—a seemingly ancient bronze statue of Apollo—and its puzzling disappearance.
MORE ›A modern hermit has spent the last 40 years single-mindedly carving a home out of a Mediterranean cliff. When his estranged son comes to help, the pair must navigate long-standing tensions.
MORE ›Stones are at once the most foundational and the most overlooked parts of our lifeworld. When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone. A hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions, Apple Cider Vinegar takes the viewer on a journey to meet Palestinian quarry workers, a passionate British geologist, and people living on the lava fields of Fogo.
MORE ›Aboard the Finnish marine research vessel Aranda, life is governed by the insistent pitch and roll of ocean waves. The existential explorers on this ship…
MORE ›On the coast of the Araya Peninsula in Venezuela, the sun beats down on the sea, sand, and men below. Salt is the central resource of this land where nothing grows, and a community exists by extracting it manually day and night.
MORE ›This unconventional portrait of the late British playwright Andrea Dunbar features actors lip-synching audio interviews with her family, friends, and neighbors.
MORE ›Stanley, a hard-drinking and aimless First Nation young man in Washington State, visits his estranged father, who now lives in Old Crow, a Yukon Territory…
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