In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family to come to terms with the inevitable death that it faces. Hopelessness and desperation are confronted through the collaborative effort of remembering and recording, a process that inspires unexpected strength and even solace in the face of death.

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

A fine documentary that details the sordid life of 1970s pornographic actor John Holmes, from the st...

The Kitades run a butcher shop in Kaizuka City outside Osaka, raising and slaughtering cattle to sel...

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

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

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past ...
German iconoclast filmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa vonPraunheim examines his own life and care...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

A journey into the lives of the famed Vachon wrestling family through the eyes of Paul “The Butcher”...

St. Ives and the painters based in the town, and the surrounding areas, are showcased in this fascin...

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

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French lan...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dang...

A young trans woman travels back to places she visited as a child with her mother, reflecting on mem...

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