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.

That smelly, pale yellow liquid that people flush down the toilet every day is an industrial fertili...

As obesity progresses inexorably, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade investigate the causes of th...

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

This documentary offers a deeply intimate look at extraordinary teenager Billie Eilish. Award-winnin...

A young trans woman travels back to places she visited as a child with her mother, reflecting on mem...

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

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Gaza Is Our Home" is a profoundly personal documentary that peels back the layers of devastation wi...