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After 11 years of being locked away from the outside world, Adelina, a young trans woman from a Georgian village, flees to Vienna in search of freedom.

It all began with a heavy burden on my young shoulders—a weight I carried for years, convinced I was to blame for my father's untimely death.

VIVA VERDI!

After Seventh Grade: Clinton, 1996 is a feature documentary about memory, education, and the long shadow of childhood in a small American town.

Combining intimate verité scenes with the raw emotion of visual poetic fiction, QUEER CHRISTIANS follows three queer Christian women of color as they struggle to reconcile their intersecting identi

How do you know a community of immigrants has finally established itself in its new home? They build a place of worship, often one that looks like those they left behind.

Sustaining Documentary Film in Ecuador

At seven years old, Emmanuel Harerimana's life was saved by the mountain gorillas during the Rwandan genocide.

This documentary chronicles the deeply personal journey of LtCmdr Peter Steinhauer, an American Vietnam War veteran who found a unique path to healing the wounds caused by war.

Fears over rising crime in cities across the country lead to a backlash against policing and criminal justice reforms.

THE SOUND OF TOYS is a film about how Casio keyboards sparked a digital music revolution in the 1980s weaving together personal stories of amateur and professional musicians to show how these affor

The Manhattan Project was conducted in secret.
The Space Race was documented for propaganda.
We'll film The Last Renaissance for everyone.

Your Pain Was Born Here is a non-linear docu-narrative highlighting the stories of anti-Blackness, Black love, and community.

Ana and Pedro, an indigenous Chuj-Maya aunt and uncle from the highlands of Guatemala, cross Mexico to free their niece, Juanita, who has been unjustly detained for over seven years, tortured into a false confession in a language she did not speak.

STEALING A LIBRARY documents a community battle to protect their Public Library from censorship and privatization - and winning!

Ron Shapiro, also known as Ronzo, was a cultural icon and the ‘unofficial cultural ambassador’ to the south.

Years after K's classmates were massacred in his school, he records the lives of Machid, who attends the same school, and Khatima, who works in the cemetery where the dead students are buried.

Feature documentary about Nigeria's first female international singer. And one of the pioneers of Afrobeat music that was coined by the king Fela Kuti.

With a dream to turn 20 acres of barren land into a thriving flower farm, we embarked on a journey of regeneration—and now we’re documenting the entire process.

After decades of violence, the stakes at the Afghanistan peace talks are high for everyone. For women, they are immeasurable.

Eight former political prisoners reunite fifty years after their detention in one large room together during Argentina’s last military dictatorship.

Kamayan explores the cultural and culinary history of the Philippine archipelago—and the evolution of the practices and ingredients from the pre-colonial Philippines through Spanish and American co

Amidst a global debate on immigration, Yves — a Congolese refugee and newly naturalized American citizen — takes a roadtrip across Texas to discover his new homeland.

Camp 6ixx is an hour-long documentary, filmed over the course of two years, showing the growing tide of homelessness in America, and the obstacles faced by cities trying to solve it.

Georg is an Austrian retiree whose mother witnessed the crash of an Allied B-17 near their home during World War II.

This authorized documentary feature will provide a fresh lens on the inner workings of the Nonviolence Movement of America through the untold story of Rev. James Lawson

TIME OF MY LIFE is a new feature documentary that follows a group of medically fragile young adults as they come of age in a world where life is short and the obstacles are many.

A tenacious fashion photographer turned literary sleuth unravels the hidden web of influences behind Shakespeare's genius.

A single shirt travels from cotton fields in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan through dye works and factories to Chile’s Atacama Desert, revealing how human lives and the natural resources that sustain th

Silent Shelter is a documentary feature that exposes the country's broken animal sheltering system, which is seen through the eyes of those in the trenches, the volunteers.

Journey into the soul-stirring world of Zydeco music as a group of talented musicians defy conventions, confront personal struggles, and navigate the ever-changing music industry.

Everest Dark is a feature documentary that takes us on a daring expedition with world-renowned Nepalese mountaineer Mingma Tsiri Sherpa.

A feature documentary about the life and music of Michael Hedges. The eldest son of Midwestern musicians/educators, Michael Hedges was a young musical prodigy – with an emerging talent that would take him from small-town Oklahoma to Grammy award-winning artist. He was a once-in-a-generation force that would revolutionize the acoustic guitar and inspire a generation of musicians.

In Los Angeles, formerly incarcerated individuals discover purpose through jobs in film and television, and escape the cycle of reoffending.

Activist Iesha Sekou and her team of violence interrupters fight gun violence in New York City, guiding young people to peaceful resolutions in their Harlem neighborhood.

For A Million Years is a universal story about humanism, unity and a romantic belief that music can change the world.