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.

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncerta...
A film about the rescue of newborns endangered by an incompatible combination of parents' blood, whi...

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...

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

Voices is an award-winning documentary that features the stark and intimate portraits of three very ...

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

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...

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

Keenly aware that his niece is going through a particularly rough time at home, Uncle James teaches ...

It is hard to find a family home where all the members have gone to live their separate lives in dif...

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

Born a conjoined twin due to the effects of Agent Orange used during the Vietnam War, Duc Nguyen, no...

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

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

Two old sisters, living in the same Warsaw apartment, sit on a bench and talk. The 87-year-old elder...

Jake Rademacher reconnects with his brothers and soldiers he embedded with in Iraq. He creates a uni...

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...

Katiana talks about her experiences as a woman in Haiti. As a woman, she faces many limitations and ...

Each year in the United States, unparalleled innovations in medical diagnostics, treatment, and tech...