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The Feeling of Being Watched
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2019hide films
Bitterbrush
Emelie Mahdavian
Su Kim
In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women work alone herding cattle.
Johnny Symons
Kenyon Symons-Rogers
Daniel Chein
Jon Ayon Alonso
As told through 17 years of archival footage and dialogue, a Black teenager and his white father intimately navigate an unusual journey to adulthood.
Patagonia Park
Stephanie Spray
Sara Archambault
Ryan Krivoshey
Beata Gutman
Andy Marks
A vast park is created to re-wild iconic animals. Patagonia Park is a portrait of labor driving the world's most ambitious contemporary public park project.
Storm Lake
Jerry Risius
Beth Levison
Katy Drake Bettner
Evan Neff
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen fights to protect his rural town from powerful local and national forces while his family newspaper hangs on by a thread.
Shirley Abraham
Amit Madheshiya
A film set in the heart of contemporary India.
Vivien's Wild Ride
Vivien Hillgrove
Janet Cole
Dawn Valadez
When veteran film editor Vivien Hillgrove discovers that she is losing her sight, she embarks on an unconventional and magical documentary memoir. Beginning in San Francisco in the notorious 1960s, Vivien uses her adventures as an editor to reflect upon 50 years of Bay Area filmmaking, intertwined with a personal odyssey as she conjures ghosts, discovers her artistic voice, and develops a sensory survival manual.
2018show films
A Bunch of Amateurs
Kim Hopkins
Margareta Szabo
The word "amateur" has an apologetic ring. But it comes from "amatore", Latin for "lover". Britain's oldest amateur filmmaking club struggles to survive, as its members grow old amid flickering memories and hardships. In the northern industrial town of Bradford, England, a handful of diehard amateur filmmakers desperately cling to their dreams, and to each other, in this warm and funny look at shared artistic folly that speaks to the delusional dreamer in us all.
A Place to Learn
Kevin Shaw
A community struggles for equity when plans to convert a successful black elementary school into a high school favoring wealthier residents divides the neighborhood.
Born to be Second
Fan Jian
Richard Liang
S. Leo Chiang
Jean Tsien
After an earthquake razed a Chinese city to the ground, 3500 families try to replace the children they lost in order to move on with their lives. "Born to be Second" follows two of these families haunted by their painful past as they build towards a brighter tomorrow.
Colour of the Wind
Claire Sanford
Colour of the Wind is a cinematic portrait of monstrous dust storms that rise from the deserts of Western China and the people that emerge from the dust along its path. Touching down in cities and towns from the deserts of western China to the shores of California, we meet characters confronted by the dust - from its most ominous form as an enormous, devastating storm in a drying desert to its tiniest incarnation as a speck studied under a microscope. More than a journalistic look at an environmental problem, the film is a lyrical journey that rides the winds of our changing planet, exploring what life is like under the dust along the way and the very relationship people have to the air they breathe.
Drew Xanthopoulos
Andrea Meditch
Megan Gilbride
Fathom follows the world's most immersed whale researchers to explore their groundbreaking work and how a life at sea among whales has shaped them personally.
Ghost Wives
Eva Weber
Walking the razor's edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery, "Ghost Wives" tells the story of a Chinese journalist who investigates the case of a real-life serial killer - Song Tiantang, a 53-year old man, who killed six women to sell their bodies for ghost weddings, an ancient tradition in parts of rural China.
Greener Pastures
Andrew Cohn
Sam Mirpoorian
Greener Pastures is an immersive dive into the lives of four American families, tracking the rise of suicide rates and growing mental health issues among Midwestern farmers.
Joonam
Sierra Urich
A deeply personal story following three generations of women, Joonam explores the tender and turbulent relationships between mother and daughter, Iran and America, and the immigrant experience as it ripples over time.
David Petersen
Mary Recine
Through the eyes of four young and homeless ballet dancers, Lift shines a spotlight on the invisible story of homelessness in America.
David Osit
Mayor is a real-life political saga about a search for identity behind the battle lines of a global conflict. With startling and unprecedented access, MAYOR follows a charismatic leader's quixotic quest to build the city of the future in a land paralyzed by its past.
Pray Away
Kristine Stolakis
Jessica Devaney
Pray Away tells the story of the history and continuation of the reparative therapy or "pray the gay away" movement.
Razing Liberty Square
Katja Esson
Hector David Rosales
Despite its eclectic mix of cultures, Miami is one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States. Over the course of three years we will follow three female protagonists who are trying to save one of Miami's last African American communities, historic 'Liberty Square,' best known as the setting for the Oscar winning film Moonlight. By challenging the city's plan how to wipe out the oldest public housing projects in the US, they are fighting to defend their community against the onslaught of Climate Gentrification and cultural erasure by reclaiming its place in Miami's past, present and future.
The Girl With Seven Names
Madeleine Gavin
Jana Edelbaum & Rachel Cohen
Hannah Song
Sue Terry
A visceral thriller centered around one woman's harrowing escape from North Korea. The film will span two decades and reveal a country's people who, even today, remain shrouded in mythology, mystery and repression.
The Grenada Invasion
Greg Campbell
Daniel Junge
The Grenada Invasion gives an insider's perspective on a pivotal yet often overlooked moment in the Cold War — the United States' military invasion of the island nation of Grenada and its lingering after effects.
Kimi Takesue
TOUR GUIDE explores the legacy of the Cambodian genocide through the eyes of local tour guides as they lead foreigners to the Killing Fields and other "dark tourism" sites.
Trans*Formed
Lisa Leeman
In 1990, filmmaker Lisa Leeman intimately chronicled devout Christian Gary P's gender transition into Gabi in the groundbreaking documentary Metamorphosis (Sundance Filmmakers' Trophy). Twenty-five years later, Leeman revisits her subject and must confront thorny questions about the filmmaker/subject relationship and the responsibilities filmmakers have to the people whose lives they film.
Untitled Criminal Justice/High School Project
Maisie Crow
Heidi Reinberg
Abbie Perrault
Untitled Parkland Project
Kim A. Snyder
Maria Cuomo Cole
Lori Cheatle
In the wake of the February 14, 2018 tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students ignite the largest youth movement since the 1960s to address gun violence in America. A coming of age story at its core, their galvanizing demand for change inspires the conscience of the country.
Without Arrows
Jonathan Olshefski
Three generations of the Fiddler family from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe reservation experience both tenderness and tragedy over the course of nearly ten years.
Anirban Dutta
Anupama Srinivasan
A village on the Indo-Myanmar border; 70 years after Indian independence, news floats in that electricity may arrive. Life flickers between hope and frustration, and humor is the only constant.
Joe Brewster
Michèle Stephenson
Amilca Palmer
Through intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of her poetry, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Film pushes the boundaries of biographical documentary film to reveal the enduring influence of one of America's greatest living artists and social commentators.
Hail Satan?
Gabriel Sedgwick
A look at the intersection of religion and activism, tracing the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. The Temple is calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation's soul. But are they for real?
Instant Life
Instant Life tells the story of Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut, the heiress to the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys fortune, who is engaged in a David and Goliath legal battle with a large toy company to regain control over her husband's iconic aquatic novelty.
Life Overtakes Me
Kristine Samuelson
John Haptas
Facing deportation, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden have become afflicted with Resignation Syndrome, withdrawing from the world into a comalike state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.
Mississippi Red
Kelly Duane de la Vega
Jessica Anthony
Mississippi Red looks at American feminism through the lens of race, religion and the political establishment as a pair of bipartisan allies fight to pass an equal pay bill in one of the most conservative states in the union.
Rebel Hearts
Pedro Kos
Kira Carstensen
Shawnee Isaac-Smith
Judy Korin
Rebel Hearts tells the story of an unlikely resistance group – Catholic nuns in Los Angeles who stood up to the patriarchy of the Church over fifty years ago, and continue to walk their talk today.
Riotsville, USA
Sierra Pettengill
Jamila Wignot
Jonathan Rapoport
Riotsville, USA is an archival documentary about the US Army's response to the riots of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, casts soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.
Searching for Saraswati
In India, the Haryana state government is in quest of holy river Saraswati, believed to have been lost 4,000 years ago and since found only in myth.
Sunset and the Mockingbird
Kali Holloway
Sarit Work
Sunset and the Mockingbird is the love story of jazz legend Junior Mance and his wife, manager and soulmate Gloria Mance. As he loses his identity to dementia, she must reckon with her own.
The Ants Are Still Burning
Jay Rosenblatt
The Ants Are Still Burning will explore a grade school event from 50 years ago and explore the nature of trauma, memory, and shame.
The Gold Rush Project
Jon Else
Camille Servan-Schreiber
This intense short documentary explores the deep roots of modern American excess through the prism of a John Adams and Peter Sellars's new opera about the California Gold Rush.
The Liegnitz Plot
Dan Sturman
Dylan Nelson
Gary Gilbert
The Liegnitz Plot investigates a story dating back to the Holocaust: that a mysterious Nazi stole priceless stamp collections from concentration camp victims and then buried the stolen stamps somewhere in Poland. The filmmakers set out to confirm the story, recover the stamps, and return them to their rightful owners.
Lyric R. Cabral
What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?
Loira Limbal
In today's economy, many Americans work longer hours across multiple jobs to make ends meet. The result is an unexpected phenomenon: the flourishing of 24-hour daycare centers.
Untitled Ghost Town Murder Film
A mystery that forces viewers to examine their accepted views of crime, punishment, and justice—and whether these views shift from absolute to relative when a system designed to protect us all protects the seemingly wrong person.
Untitled Syrian Families Film
Megan Mylan
Robin Hessman
Alaá Hassan
Portraits of Syrian families displaced and fractured by war create a meditation on parental love that is both urgent and timeless.
American Factory
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
In 2014, a Chinese billionaire opened a Fuyao factory in a shuttered General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio. For thousands of locals, the arrival of this multinational car-glass manufacturer meant regaining their jobs—and dignity—after the recession left them high and dry. American Factory takes us inside the facility to observe what happens when workers from profoundly different cultures collide.
American Saint
Allison Berg
American Saint is the extraordinary story of Fulton Sheen, an Emmy-award winning Catholic Bishop on the verge of becoming the first American-born man to become a saint.
Crip Camp
Jim LeBrecht
Nicole Newnham
Sara Bolder
Soon after Woodstock, just down the road, a parallel revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers. With joy and humor, Crip Camp explores summer camp awakenings that would transform lives and shape the future of the disability rights movement.
Shirly Berkovitz
Noam Pinchas
Danny, an Ex-Hitman-Syrian-Muslim turned Israeli-Jew, sets out on an investigative journey to find out the truth about his son's murder.
Luke Lorentzen
Kellen Quinn
The Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance in Mexico City, competing with other EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. While making a living in this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from jeopardizing the people in their care. When a crackdown by corrupt police forces the family to try legitimizing their operation, their desperate financial situation pushes them into ethically dubious practices even as they continue providing essential emergency medical services.
Our Time Machine
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer's disease, he creates "Papa's Time Machine," a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Vetrichelvi is a former LTTE terrorist, a handicapped victim of war and a writer. Her name means Mrs. Victory and she is about to go on a mission - to find her former comrades and write a book about untold stories of civil war in Sri Lanka, even if it means risking her life.
Assia Boundaoui
Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by the FBI — and in the process, she exposes a surveillance program on a scale no one could have imagined.
The Gut (working title)
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
In the blue-collar city of Rutland, Vermont the mayor and a passionate group of community members lead the fight to resettle Syrian refugees in their small, heroin-battered town.
Sam Green
The Oldest Person in the World weaves together portraits of the people who hold the Guinness Record for being the oldest person alive, serving as a meditation on time and the poignancy of being alive.
The Quiet Zone
Katie Dellamaggiore
Heavenly and earthly questions abound in the radio-silent town of Green Bank, West Virginia; while astronomers search for life beyond Earth, local residents contemplate their sublime connection to technology.
Those That Breathe
Kitra Cahana
Ed Ou
Becky Korman
Set in the Canadian Arctic, against the threat of climate change, Those That Breathe is the powerful and intimate story of an Inuit community struggling to hold on to their culture and their land.
Time for Ilhan
Norah Shapiro
Jennifer Steinman Sternin
In November 2016, Ilhan Omar made history as the first Somali Muslim woman to be elected for state office in America. Time for Ilhan offers an inspiring look at her campaign and the changing face of American politics.
We Want Harold!
Joe Winston
We Want Harold! tells, for the first time, the story of how Harold Washington, by becoming Chicago's first Black mayor, changed American politics. The coalition he forged transformed the local and national Democratic Party and helped launch the career of Barack Obama.
When We Walk
Jason DaSilva
If you were an independent filmmaker and could no longer independently create—no longer see well, edit, or use the camera, but could still talk—how would you reinvent your creative identity as you battled against an ever-shortening timeline? I am living in the interiority.
XY Chelsea
Julia Nottingham
Soldier, trans woman and prisoner - Chelsea Manning has launched an appeal against the US Military, challenging a 35 year sentence given after she leaked almost 700,000 US military and diplomatic documents. She is also undergoing Hormone Replacement Therapy, transitioning to the female gender she has identified with all her life.
17 Blocks follows three siblings in inner-city Washington. D.C. over the course of 15 years, focusing on the youngest child, Emmanuel Durant, Jr., from age 9 to his tragic death as a victim of gun violence at age 19. It's a raw, intimate, and deeply personal documentary that illuminates an ongoing crisis in American cities through one family's heartbreaking, courageous, and ultimately redemptive story.
All We've Lost
Preston Randolph
An aging mother, despite continuous denial, battles the State of Montana to free her son from prison while discovering their story has inspired historic change.
Mohammed Siam
Post adolescence meets post revolution. When violence became a language in the Egyptian streets, anger became Amal's destiny and destination.
Anbessa
Mo Scarpelli
A curious boy living at the very edge of the modern world seeks his place within it, exposing the hope, tension and a hidden fear of 'progress' engulfing his country.
Beyond the End of the World
Anne Barliant
Srdjan Sarenac
Celebrities, snipers, smuggling and courage; Sarajevo's first film festival happened during Europe's longest modern siege. Today the city's artists still struggle in war's aftermath.
Caring for Kathryn
Adam Isenberg
Noah Arjomand
A fearless portrait of the simmering anger and buried guilt of a New York family caring for the mother, Kathryn, who is paralyzed and terminally ill.
Marilyn Ness
Katy Chevigny
Charm City takes viewers beyond the television headlines and over the front lines of violence in Baltimore; in doing so, it reveals the grit and compassion of the city's citizens, police, and government officials trying to reclaim their future.
Rati Oneli
The lives, dreams and destinies of several extraordinary characters unfold amid the ruins of a post­ apocalyptic mining town. Zurab, a music teacher is on a quest to destroy gigantic buildings to keep his sanity and provide for his family; Archil, a miner­-turned­-actor has to make a life­altering choice between his dream and his day job; and two malnourished champion athletes have to overcome the odds and win the next Olympic games to survive.
Elephant Path / Njaia Njoku
Todd McGrain
Scott Anger
Against a backdrop of luminous natural beauty, pierced by callous human violence, an American biologist, a Bayaka tracker, a Bantu eco-guard, and an Israeli security contractor form an unlikely alliance. As their lives converge on the paths of the last wild herd of forest elephants in the Central African Republic, each will be tested by the realities of war and the limits of hope for the majestic animals they have committed their lives to study and protect.
Dan Krauss
Extremis plunges viewers into the harrowing decision-making process faced by physicians, patients and families in urgent end-of-life cases, offering a uniquely intimate look at the intersection of science, faith, and humanity.
Freedom to Marry
Eddie Rosenstein
An intimate and epic film that pulls back the curtain to reveal the masterminds of one of the greatest civil rights movements of our time as they embark on their final, thrilling battle to win same sex marriage for the entire United States.
How to Rob Banks for Dummies
Maxim Pozdorovkin
Jenny Lim
After several bank robberies carried out in the name of art (and money), video artist and former MIT professor Joseph Gibbons leaves prison, re-enters the art world, and tries to go straight for the very first time.
Pleistocene Park
Luke Griswold-Tergis
An eccentric Russian scientists' quixotic quest to recreate a vanished ice age ecosystem and save the world from a catastrophic global warming feedback loop.
The Bones
Jeremy Xido
Stephanie Levy
Two scientists attempt to undermine the international dinosaur bone trade — one by returning fossils to the place from where they were stolen, the other by literally bringing dinosaurs back to life.
The Oslo Diaries
Mor Loushy
Daniel Sivan
Hilla Medalia
The Oslo Diaries provides new insights as why peace has not been achieved in the longest ongoing conflict of our times. Personal diaries written by Israeli and Palestinian participants of the secret peace talks and archival footage create a dramatic journey into the backstage of Oslo accord.
The Raft
Marcus Lindeen
Julie Goldman
In 1973 five men and six women went on a dramatic raft expedition across the Atlantic Ocean for 101 days to study human aggression and sexuality. This documentary reunites them forty years later to reveal what actually happened during one of history's strangest group experiments.
Wild, Wild Country
Chapman Way
Maclain Way
Julie Lembi
On a quiet day in 1981, disciples of an obscenely wealthy religious guru named Bhagwan Rajneesh suddenly appear in the small, conservative Oregon town of Antelope, dressed in all red and with portraits of their leader hanging from their necks. This, of course, makes the townsfolk uneasy.
A Baby For Sarah
Tracy Tragos
Spanning eight years, this film is the story of Sarah, as she grows from a 14-year-old girl to a young woman of 21, living on the edge of poverty in the heartland of America - chronicling her hopes, ambitions, challenges and compromises as a teenage parent.
Atomic Homefront
Rebecca Cammisa
Atomic Homefront reveals St. Louis, Missouri's past as a uranium processing center for the atomic bomb and the governmental and corporate negligence that led to the illegal dumping of Manhattan film radioactive waste throughout North County neighborhoods. The film is a case study of how citizens are confronting state and federal agencies to uncover the truth about the extent of the contamination and are fighting to keep their families safe.
Kirsten Johnson
Mariyln Ness
Exposing her role behind the camera, Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
Dream Away
Marouan Omara
Dream Away follows a generation of young Egyptians to the surreal tourist hub Sharm El Sheikh on their search for a new identity.
Left on Purpose
Justin Schein
Left on Purpose is a documentary film about the friendship between an aging anti-war activist who has decided that his last political act will be to take his own life and the filmmaker struggling to tell his story.
Mad as Hell!
Jason Cohn
Mad as Hell! tells the story of Howard Jarvis and his landmark California ballot measure, Proposition 13, which launched a "permanent" national tax revolt and fundamentally altered the course of American politics to the current day.
Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. For adult learners Greg, Melissa and Shynika, finally earning their high school diplomas could be a life-changing achievement.
Pieces of a Man - Gil Scott-Heron Documentary
Orlando Bagwell
As the 1960s fade, Gil Scott Heron emerges as a voice of truth through poetry and song. His art is liberating for many, yet, he can't free himself from a life at odds with an enduring legacy.
Andre Hörmann
Ingmar Trost
Carolyn Hepburn
Vincent Assmann
Tom Bergmann
RINGSIDE looks at the dangerous, volatile world of Chicago's South Side from the perspective of two remarkably gifted young boxers and the fathers who train them; as one begins a rising career in the ring, the other serves an eight-year-prison sentence for criminal trespass and burglary.
Arthur Pratt
Banker White
Anna Fitch
Lansana Mansaray
Through the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmakers, Survivors presents a heart-connected portrait of their country during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the socio-political turmoil that lies in its wake.
Tashi and the Monk
Andrew Hinton
Johnny Burke
Tashi and the Monk is the story of a remarkable community in the Himalayas created to heal trauma and give its young members the joys of childhood.
The Last Year of Congo Mirador
Anabel Rodriguez
Sepp R. Brudermann
Swimming in oil, sinking in violence, one village, one country.
The Reagan Show
Pacho Velez
The President struggles to win the Cold War. His weapon of choice is television.
Unlocking the Cage
Chris Hegedus
D.A. Pennebaker
Unlocking the Cage follows attorney Steve Wise as he mounts what is perhaps the most revolutionary lawsuit for animal rights: the first lawsuits demanding legal personhood for four chimpanzees in New York State.
Rolling the dice for a family.
Josh Kriegman
Elyse Steinberg
With unrestricted access to Anthony Weiner's New York City mayoral campaign, this film reveals the human story behind the scenes of a high-profile political scandal as it unfolds, and offers an unfiltered look at how much today's politics is driven by an appetite for spectacle.
When God Sleeps
Till Schauder
When God Sleeps depicts the journey of Iranian musician Shahin Najafi who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, incensed by a rap song that focuses on the oppression of women, sexism and human rights abuses.
Alex Jablonski
Kahlil Hudson
The film follows three young men – all part of a single wildland firefighting crew – as they wrestle with loyalty, fear, courage, love and defeat; all in the face of nature's most elemental force.
Ask the Sexpert
Vaishali Sinha
A long time sex advice columnist gains popularity against the backdrop of a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools in several states in India.
May Abdalla
Elhum Shakerifar
Cold Rush is set at the front line of the fast changing Arctic. As the UN decides how to divide up state sovereignty into the High North we travel into the lives of American entrepreneurs, Danish scientists and Russian priests who are investing in the thawing ice and the young island man who is trying to stop them. A timely documentary about the race for the last frontier.
Cynthia Wade
Sasha Friedlander
Mudflow chronicles a community's response to one of the word's largest man-made environmental disasters: a giant unstoppable mud volcano in Indonesia that has displaced 50,000 people.
Ramona Diaz
Motherland takes us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital in one of the world's poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. It tells the story of the devastating toll on poor women as the country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative Catholic ideology, exposing the harsh consequences of reproductive injustice.
The Arrivals
Heidi Ewing
The Arrivals tells the story of two Latino men who migrated to the U.S. both for economic opportunity and to live openly as a gay couple. They operate a successful business but remain undocumented, with no clear path to legalize their status.
The Force
Peter Nicks
This is a film about police power and restraint, unfolding deep inside the famously troubled Oakland Police Department. We observe in intimate detail the rare perspective of beleaguered officers who are often viewed as oppressors in the community they serve, even as they and their young chief struggle to rebuild trust in the face of mass protests, budget cuts, and more violent crimes per officer than any city in America.
Dawn Porter
U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to remain open. Since 2010, hundreds of laws regulating abortion clinics have been passed by conservative state legislatures, particularly in the South.
Bei Bei
Rose Rosenblatt and Marion Lipschutz
State vs. Shuai, a behind the scenes documentary, weaves an intimate personal narrative with the dramatic intensity of a high stakes criminal case, raising questions about "personhood laws", immigrants' rights, and the criminal justice system's treatment of the mentally ill.
E-TEAM
Ross Kauffman
The E-Team follows the intense and courageous work of three intrepid human rights workers on the frontlines of identifying international human rights abuses. Dramatic and crucial, Human Rights Watch's Emergency Team work is custom-made for a compelling documentary film with a global perspective.
Ivy Meeropol
Indian Point looks at nuclear power by going inside the core activities at an aging nuclear plant and posing the simple question: is this safe?
Remote Area Medical
Jeff Reichert
Farihah Zaman
Over one weekend in Bristol, TN, thousands of uninsured line up to receive, for free, the healthcare they desperately need.
Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison
Kristi Jacobson
Solitary is a daring exploration of the lives of inmates and corrections officers in one of America's most notorious supermax prisons, built to hold inmates in 8x10 cells, 23-hours-a-day, for months, years and sometimes decades.
Jesse Moss
Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.
Shimon Dotan
In one of the world's most volatile regions Israeli settlers threaten to ignite the powder keg created by a half-century of Israeli settlement and political lock-in in the occupied West Bank.
Ashley York
Kristina Goolsby
Comedian Tig Notaro announced her cancer diagnosis at what became a legendary stand-up set in 2012. Follow her search for humor amid devastating news.
True Conviction
Jamie Meltzer
There's a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by three exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them.
Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
Freida Mock
The story is about a game changer who Spoke Truth to Power. This film is about the life and times of Anita Hill whose graphic, sensational testimony about sexual harassment in the 1991 Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill Supreme Court confirmation Hearings altered the trajectory of her life and our country's policies on sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, on college campuses and the military.
Jennifer Grausman
Sam Cullman
When one of the most prolific art forgers in US history is finally exposed, he must confront the legacy of his 30-year con.
One Bullet Afghanistan
Carol Dysinger
Part two of Dysinger's Nation Building trilogy, One Bullet, Afghanistan concerns the rule of law in a time of war.
The Ballad of Fred Hersch
Charlotte Lagarde
Carrie Lozano
The Ballad of Fred Hersch is an intimate portrait of one of today's foremost jazz pianists and his unlikely musical journey as an AIDS and coma survivor.
The Kill Team
When a young soldier attempts to alert the military to war crimes his fellow soldiers have committed, his pleas go unheeded. Weeks later, he makes a decision that will change his life forever.
The Last Season
Sara Dosa
Told through the personal stories of two former soldiers turned wild mushroom hunters, The Last Season is a journey into the woods, into the memory of war and survival, telling a story of family from an unexpected place.
Senain Kheshgi
The former barber to Prime Minister of Pakistan singlehandedly aids women and children who have escaped from sexual trafficking, slavery and threats of "honor killing."
Almudena Carracedo
Robert Bahar
For the first time in history, in a groundbreaking international lawsuit, survivors of crimes of Spain's 40-year dictatorship seek justice and attempt to prosecute perpetrators.
Jacqueline Olive
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.
Call Me Kuchu
Malika Zouhali-Worrall
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato, Uganda's first openly gay man, and retired Anglican Bishop Christopher Senyonjo work against the clock to defeat state-sanctioned homophobia while combatting vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
Hannah Rosenzweig
Jesse Erica Epstein
A trio of Hungarian astrophysicists, who normally search the universe for black holes, try to stop the world's most dangerous animal – with lasers. Mosquito follows these and other quirky, passionate mosquito warriors trying to win an age-old battle against man's deadliest foe.
Sandi DuBowski
Rabbi follows 13 years in the dramatic life of Amichai Lau-Lavie, a 21st century rabbi who has achieved renown in reaching today's skeptical, secular, digital generation, reimagining the role of spirituality in our lives, and showing how religion, when radically reinvented for the modern world, can be a powerful force for human rights and global tolerance.
Ruins of Lifta
Menachem Daum
Oren Rudavsky
The mega-narratives underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Holocaust and Nakba, are pitted against each other in the ruins of an Arab village emptied in 1948.
Carl Deal
Tia Lessin
The Americans tells the stories of families and communities caught in the immigrant detention and deportation dragnet -- collateral damage in a political battle where politicians and media pundits exploit the worst fears and racism of voters.
The Genius of Marian
The Genius of Marian follows Pam White in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease as her son, the filmmaker, documents her struggles to retain a sense of self.