Legendary and award-winning comic book artist Steve "The Dude" Rude confronts the extreme suffering he experiences caused by his bi-polar disorder and decides at age 53 to leave the industry that made him famous to pursue a new and quieter lifestyle, out of the comic book limelight, as a fine art...

The Japanese Kunizo Matsumoto cannot read nor write, yet he has invented a form of writing that is both
beautiful and enigmatic.

The American George Widener, who is capable of memorizing events of the last 1,500 years, can also predict the
future, which he inscribes in his “magic squares.“

Fern...

Women who worked during WWII as part of the war effort, or Rosie the Riveters as they became known, recount stories and talk about their experiences. These women took on jobs traditionally reserved for men out of necessity, and in the process, challenged gender roles that ultimately changed the m...

An approximation to the magnetic figure of the recently deceased Spanish painter Roca Bon.

River of Bears is about the legendary McNeil River Alaska State Game Sanctuary. During the summertime it hosts the largest congregation of brown bears in the world. Bears come from hundreds of miles to the sanctuary to mate, raise cubs, and dine on the abundant sedge grass and salmon. On a typica...

Filmmaker Colin Stryker journeys to Washington state, where he chronicles the lives of everyday citizens struggling on either side of a divisive issue: whether to remove a series of hydroelectric dams from the Snake River. While groups of American Indians, environmentalists and fishermen advocate...

Filmed over a 17-year period, this deeply personal film is an intimate look at the contemporary Asian American immigrant experience. Fraught with betrayal, economic strife, and familial communication meltdowns, director Alvin Tsang illuminates his family's migration from Hong Kong to Los Angeles ...

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb...Daesh...Boko Haram. So many extremist movements, of which Africa has become a breeding ground, have declared war against Western values and people.
Beyond the misunderstandings that often paralyze us, we have to ask ourselves the real question: how did we get her...

WW II veteran, Leon Cooper travels to the Philippines to relive Macarthur's return and appeals for renewed efforts to bring MIA's back to their families.

"Repetitive Motion" illustrates the process and philosophy behind Sky Cubacub's body art work.

Every day is a performance; I wake up and decide what I feel like. I put on an armful of chain-mail bracelets. The chain-mail leaks down to my hips along with an array plastic army men and dinosaurs. I...

When the war is over, the battle to save the land begins.

"Remembering Cuba" follows the story of one Cuban-American family, tracing how the experiences of Cuban immigrants themselves have shaped their first and second generation relatives over time.

Raised by Krump is a 22-minute documentary film that explores the Compton/South Central, Los Angeles-born dance movement called “Krumping”, and the lives of some of the area’s most influential and prolific dancers.

Compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both documentary and fictional sources, set to music, illustrating the huge changes in LGBTQ life in Britain (mainly England) over the 20th century.

In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted their lives in the village and changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespear...

The documentary investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody: tensions between Islam, modernization in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and an urban dictatorship.

In August 2017, a team of 3 women aged 25 to 30 embarked on a quest to discover their own boundaries in an immense, wild and remote territory. They covered 100 km in a few days through the Kuururjuaq National Park, along Mont d'Iberville and crossing the famous Koroc River.

THE MISSION
To deepen...

Pussy Riot: The Movie briefly reviews the events that led to the harsh two-year sentences of Pussy Riot members for singing a punk rock song in Moscow's most important cathedral. Their message about the growing repression in Russia by Putin's regime caught the world's attention like no other diss...

A stockbroker from Texas battles eastern bankers, railroads and government.

"Pro Wrestler" is a documentary about the unique subculture surrounding Independent Professional Wrestling. The piece follows 5 Wrestlers at different points in their careers. Filmmaker Kenny Johnson embedded himself in the 'fake' world of wrestling and filmed over 50 hours of footage. Yes, wrest...

Four young Egyptian women with different social background smartly fight for their ideals and rights. For almost two years we follow their everyday lives and their struggle in post-revolutionary Egypt.

Jack is not your typical 10-year-old boy. His closet is jam-packed with dresses, his room stacked with hats and wigs, and every surface is covered with makeup. Princess Jack is a short documentary that gives a glimpse into Jack’s world, an autistic boy whose life is filled with fairytales. The st...

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Created conceptually by Lynsey Dyer.

Released in 2014 complete with an all-female cast, this award-winning ski documentary film celebrates women who thrive in the snow.

In Lynsey’s words: “I want to give young girls something positive to look up to. I want to give them thei...

Living centrally in the middle of nowhere.