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.

A "Chinese" father reflects on the changing relationship of China and US during his trip to Beijing ...

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality bega...

Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys find empowerment by creating short films...

Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his l...

During the pandemic, living under an extreme right-wing government, filmmakers Bel Bechara and Sandr...
THEY HEARD VOICES is a documentary film exploring the Hearing Voices Movement, chronic psychosis, an...

The Kitades run a butcher shop in Kaizuka City outside Osaka, raising and slaughtering cattle to sel...

In 1973, eleven year old Miguelito was discovered singing in the San Juan airport by the legendary N...
Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This...

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

A group of people with schizophrenia meet to discuss their daily lives with the voices in their head...

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A...

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

Documentary about brother and sister duo The Carpenters, one of the biggest-selling pop acts of the ...

After four years away, Huiju returns home to South Korea. Exchanges with her loved ones are awkward ...

A journey into the lives of the famed Vachon wrestling family through the eyes of Paul “The Butcher”...

A poetic and intimate look at the life and work of photographer Luis Humberto.