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.

The action is placed in a cramped flat in Warsaw’s district of Ochota. A father and a son, both bedr...
The Kitades run a butcher shop in Kaizuka City outside Osaka, raising and slaughtering cattle to sel...

One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness every year. Suicide is the second most commo...

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

The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the pas...

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

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

A film about longstanding relationships, family, and the deep consequences of falling in love. While...

In the short film 'Jennifer', filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his mother t...

Barred from racing for breaking stride, a trotting horse finds a new career as a police officer's mo...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...

Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in a marginal environment, are finding ways to get sti...
Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This...

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

65 years of marriage, four systems, two people, one love: Ilse and Wolfgang Gutsche have gotten alon...

John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.

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

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