The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection, and greater meaning. Featuring insights from trauma experts and others, the film challenges the widespread idea that mental illness should be understood purely in biological terms, revealing the myriad ways that madness has meaning beyond brain chemistry.

7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gende...

Behind the closed doors of the Copenhagen-based women's shelter, the women and children are slowly r...

We had a comfortable life until my father went bankrupt and I blamed him for our misfortune. Being 3...

"My mother is spending all her time with her dying father. I’m spending all my time filming her. As ...

A nuanced portrait of a new generation, Dear Thirteen is a cinematic time capsule of coming of age i...

IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard work...

In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they c...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantl...
Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three fa...

The story of a six year old boy from Phoenix, Arizona whose dreams of becoming a Kungfu master lead ...

After learning to 'write what you know,' in film school, Half-Filipino and Half-White aspiring filmm...

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff fil...

A son films his elderly mother as she cares for his ailing father on his deathbed.

Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of ...

The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French lan...