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...

The life of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash — the inspiration for ...

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

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

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

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

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...
A film about the rescue of newborns endangered by an incompatible combination of parents' blood, whi...

Honduran immigrants living in Mexico, teenage siblings Rocío and Ale must take over care of their tw...

John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.

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

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

Echo is a youngster who can't quite decide if it's time to grow up and take on new responsibilities-...

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

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...

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

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

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

A year after Thadd and Shannon gave birth to their son, A Conversation Between Parents highlights a ...