With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean-Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she's always known. She begins staying away from home, starts skipping school, and risks losing her shot at the college track career she had always dreamed of. But when Avery decides to pick up the pieces of her life and make sense of her identity, the results are inspiring. OFF AND RUNNING follows Avery to the brink of adulthood, exploring the strength of family bonds and the lengths people must go to become themselves.

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together whi...

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Gr...

Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American l...

ALLIES is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke’s unequivocal embrace of t...

A Mexican flower seller’s story of personal tragedy is delicately illuminated in an intimate and mov...
Re-framing the U.S. gun violence debate from Second Amendment rights to public health prevention.

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A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
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A wry look at the effects of sexual repression on lesbian and gays in former Czechoslovakia. After t...

A charismatic activist leads a globally-regarded NGO that provides shelter and education for girls r...

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...

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A documentary portrait of International Chrysis, a New York “show girl” and drag queen. Surreal hers...

Every Wednesday at noon, women who were kidnapped for sexual purpose by the Japanese army during its...

Portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal ...

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The Purity Ball symbolizes a father's protection over his daughter's virginity, but how does this re...

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...