How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of being diagnosed with the chronic autoimmune condition Myasthenia Gravis. It's the third installment in FIGURES, a new series of portrait films. Shot on a mix of 16mm film, VHS and digital.

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...

"Who is Weary Willie?" explores the life of the once-famous circus character Weary Willie and his st...

Portrait of a French mercenary working in Libya, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War le...

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when s...

7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gende...

As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...

In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she...

Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the m...

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the mo...

Fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeli...

While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches ...

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between...

A portrait of the Director’s maternal grandmother, Eliane, a French woman who lived her entire life ...

Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...
Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborho...