Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil Borges and Kevin Tomlinson reveal a growing movement of professionals and survivors who are forging alternative treatments that focus on recovery and turning mental “illness” into a positive transformative experience.
The incredible story of Bruno Lüdke (1908-44), the alleged worst mass murderer in German criminal hi...
After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and kill...
In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuse...
A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand a...
Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two ...
Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of ...
A personal, scientific, mystical exploration of Amazonian curanderismo, focus on Ayahuasca and Maste...
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that...
In the form of a poetic love letter to its nation, this short film reveals a strong community and th...
María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She ...
This documentary follows Dawn Murphy, or “Princess Delta Dawn”, who rose to fame in the 1980s and ea...
Documentary about the kolla people living in North Western Argentina.
The lives of Jeff, Lauren and Lloyd—three very different people who share one common experience—have...
For millennia, Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of...
Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped ...
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...
Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the fut...
Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigat...
Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture...
In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ ...