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.

Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture o...

An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the fathe...

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

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

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

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

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

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

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantl...

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

Somewhere on the coast of the Bering Sea, a father and son make a living fishing in a community that...

This documentary is about Carlitos, a young man with mental disability who has a particular vision o...

British artist Kim Noble talks about the reality of living with dissociative identity disorder and s...

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

Despite the homeopathic doctors studying medicine, they treat their patients against the basis of sc...

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

An uplifting insight into the lives of seven-year-old conjoined twins, who weren’t expected to live ...

For the Frigons, hunting is a family affair that forges and solidifies the bonds between generations...