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.

Homelessness in the United States takes many forms. For Elizabeth Herrera, David Lima and their four...

Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate ...

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

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

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incura...

‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...
SauAcker depicts the obstacles faced by Philipp, a young farmer determined to modernize his father's...
A family gathering around what used to be an everyday activity.

Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deep...

In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and th...
Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

The Sykora family are only four people out of millions of Venezuelans that have recently escaped the...

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