Filmmaker Judith Helfand documents her life as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother and as an “old new mom”, single parenting an adopted baby girl at 50+. This multigenerational love story asks: what do we really need to leave our children?

A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity – khat, a euphoria-inducing plant – holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures intimate moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife.

Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?

Stories on home and how it shapes us.

Explore how Christine works to assure dignified lives for herself and her brother Peter, born with multiple disabilities, while she faces uncertainties about becoming his primary caregiver.

In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first steps towards economic renewal and political sovereignty.

Inter-generational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance to defend the land and water at Manzanar, site of the WWII concentration camp the foot of California’s snow-capped Sierras.

Through the stories of front line medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens, this film provides a human face to the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city where the virus was first discovered.

Two conversations on identity and connection centered on the LGBTQ+ experience around the world.

On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American engineer, with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.