In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death reigns, places where everything is already lost, where appeal is not possible. A walk in search of the meaning of death that is actually a celebration of life and the living.

The lives of Jeff, Lauren and Lloyd—three very different people who share one common experience—have...

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challeng...
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), an...

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its jou...

An unflinching documentary of those dealing with mental illness in the criminal justice system and a...

When Kit Vincent, a young filmmaker, receives a terminal diagnosis aged 24, his first instinct is to...

This story follows the history of the most over buried commercial cemetery in America. It comes full...

When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother's well-being in a retirement home, private invest...

Every morning, Marcel confides in his tape recorder. It is from his reflections on life that this fi...
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art...

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality bega...

The tombs of the grand lords of Moche civilization - one of Peru's most important pre-Hispanic civil...

Tucked away in northern Indiana, the city of Peru, Indiana is the circus capitol of the world. Thous...

Five subjects from Gen-Z take the PHQ-9 - a survey to assess the degree of one's depression severity...

Every two weeks, the world loses a language and with it, a piece of human history. Ese Eja is one of...
Every now and then, we get a teacher who doesn't just connect with us -- they make us a better perso...