Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.

This town was a place where they could sleep peacefully, but now the time has come for them to go. 

A Taiwanese American filmmaker questions her family’s silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Light of the Setting Sun is a poetic family portrait of what’s been left unsaid.

On a small farm in the Norwegian forest, the Payne family seeks a wild and free existence. They practice home-schooling and strive for a closely-knit family dynamic in harmony with nature. However, when tragedy unexpectedly strikes the family, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society.

Thirty years after the War in Abkhazia, two generations of Georgian refugees squat in abandonedSoviet sanatoriums, haunted by echoes of the past while they continue to wait for aid in the form ofgovernment housing.

Ten years after Frøydis cut all contact with her parents due to neglect and violence during her upbringing, she is confronted with her father being on his deathbed.

Through an embodied camera eye that moves freely in the in-between place that is an alley connecting two streets,Fortuneevokes a sense of magical realism and offers texture to the meditation on the Chinese American identity, which can also be characterized as a liminal space.

Five eight-year-olds found the imaginary world ‘George-Peterland’—a dreamy forest land with cute chickens everywhere, to which one can travel by just closing their eyes. When the school interferes and rules take over the imaginary world, it becomes a nightmare.

An elephant arrives on an island off the coast of Maine and, on a day like any other, the tightly wound circle of life unfurls.

Katya is a professional “elk calf.” Every spring she delivers elk calves. Right after the delivery, Katya takes a newborn away from its mother.  Sometimes it’s simpler to be an elk calf than to work things out with her own son.