What does beer do to people? It creates an atmosphere of acceptance.

An 8-year old boy's struggle to survive the Haitian earthquake of 2010.

Her wilderness adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing 200 miles along California's John Muir Trail, Jean faces death from a mountaineering accident on Mount Whitney. Broken and bleeding on the highest peak in the continental United States, she vows to realize her greatest dreams if she l...

High in the hills of Thailand are villages where selling children for profit - not for survival - is commonplace. While the government would prefer to say that no such problem exists - one organization stands in their way.
The Children's Organization of Southeast Asia (COSA) is working on a new m...

Orquesta Tipica is a feature-length documentary chronicling the rise of Argentina’s newest and most popular tango orchestra: Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro. The movie follows the band’s 12 members as they tour Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Austria, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. It has screen ...

Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level, it can be both beautiful and brutal -- one player describes it as 'like boxing, except with a ball.' For more than 50 years, the National One Wall Handball Championship has been played at the Seaside Courts in Coney Island. One Wall...

How to save the world.

Just months after the 2008/9 Israeli assault that killed 1,390 Palestinians, filmmaker Jen Marlowe visited Gaza. Among dozens of painful stories, one family stood out. She spent several days with Kamal and Wafaa Awajah, playing with their children, sleeping in the tent they were living in, and fi...

One Day Tafo is a film which, from the unique personal perspective of the Ghanaian born mulatto filmmaker Erik Knudsen, explores the changes that have taken place in Ghana since independence in 1957.

ONE BAD CAT is about the transformative role art plays in the tumultuous life of 82 year-old, African-American, renowned "outsider" artist Reverend Albert Wagner. He has been a lightening rod for controversy his entire life. Racism, ego and lust led him to the brink of ruin. Miraculously turned o...

This is the true story of Jeff as told by Jeff, who faces the repercussions of his choices, and learns from his mistakes.

The nature of 'hotness' is explained in 9 minutes via one man's sexual and spiritual awakening. The film uses a variety of story telling techniques including animation, montage, narrative, and lecture. The truth is funny. Dr. Richard Snyder examines the way people are evaluated for attractiveness...

Poetic film on the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Dip into the history of the ocean.

Farming is hard work, be it tomatoes, wheat or cannabis. The Oberfelder family are cannabis farmers dealing with all the challenges of farming, but with the added bias, morals and ever-changing regulations they enter a league of their own. This documentary gives us an insight into the growing pai...

Three Ultrarunners attempt to run a 453-mile-long trail in record time.

For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.

A look at the trials of Nazi leaders.

When we’re absorbed by the love of our craft we're often carried away by it. For Philip, this happens when he rides saddle buck. His experience is shaped by his Cheyenne heritage.

A blank set. A woman holds a sign with a question while a hooded character resists to answer it. This question turns into other questions. A family stages for a family portrait surrounding the father figure. Venus stares at her reflection in the looking glass, asks for herself. An omnipresent voi...

Four friends embark on a 10,000km journey to find the nomadic tribes of Mongolia.

This film explores the mystery behind local celebrity, Joel Romeo.

Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only between the kitchen, computer, TV and bed. Discovered old videotapes show her previous life as a man 25 years ago: the GDR no longer exists, but not everyone manages to gain a f...

History has shown us that torture is inevitable. All over the world cruelty is breeding and feeding off of poverty, and fear. We hear and read about torture. We see tiny clips on the news but we’re disconnected from it, we’re unable to fully comprehend it exists because our lives revolve around a...