Documentaries, New American Perspectives
When the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits paintings by the acclaimed artist Nicky Nodjoumi shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, religious hardliners ambush the work sparking a family journey…
Documentaries, Green Screen
ABOVE AND BELOW THE GROUND tells the story of Indigenous punk rock pastors in Myanmar who team up with women activists to protect a sacred river from a Chinese-built megadam.…
Asian|American, Documentaries
Alan Chong Lau is the epitome of the blue collar artist. Aside from working in produce at Seattle's iconic Asian supermarket Uwajimaya for three decades, Alan has been hard at…
Documentaries
Throughout cult film director Albert Pyun''s incredible 40-year career, his bizarre, fantastical films were often criticized and parodied but even now the incredible worlds he brought to life continue to…
Documentaries, Panorama
Wim Wenders’ portrait of the artist Anselm Kiefer is a mesmerizing cinematic experience in 3D and a stunning exploration of Kiefer’s life, work and methodology. One of the most innovative…
Documentaries, New American Perspectives
In 1984, eccentric guru Shoko Asahara founded a yoga school in Japan’s capital. Ten years later, the school has morphed into the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult which manufactured nerve gas…
Documentaries, Indigenous Lens, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler's BAD PRESS, which world premiered at Sundance, chronicles a political battle over media freedom that resonates well beyond the Native American communities depicted. When the…
Documentaries, Green Screen
Directed by Matthieu Rytz (ANOTE’S ARK, HIFF 2018), this exquisite fly-on-the-wall environmental doc is also a gripping and up-to-the-minute tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue that exposes the destructive…
Documentaries
When Bruce Lee died in 1974 at the peak of his superstardom, he had completed only four feature films. But within hours of his funeral, Hong Kong movie studios began…
Documentaries, New American Perspectives
You may not know his name, but his art is everywhere. It’s on your Apple watch, splashed on the sides of buildings, exhibited in countless galleries around the world, in…
Documentaries, Made In Hawaii
HOMETOWN LEGENDS, from local filmmakers Nainoa Langer and Kolby Akamu Moser, documents five legendary Native Hawaiian kūpuna (elders) who are masters of their craft. These Hawai‘i Island legends represent paniolo…
Documentaries, Green Screen
As an island community, with limited resources that are impacted by climate, Hawai‘i has a greater urgency to find a sustainable way to use our natural resources without exploiting them.…
Documentaries, Made In Hawaii
ISLAND COWGIRLS shares the stories of two Hawaiian cowgirls on opposite sides of Hawai‘i Island, dedicated to caring for their family ranches. Laʻi Bertelmann grapples with accepting a mainland scholarship…
Documentaries, Film For Thought
JOIN OR DIE is a film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America depends on it. In this feature documentary, follow the half-century…
Documentaries, Green Screen
Growing up following in the footsteps of her kūpuna (ancestors), Cindi Punihaole learned to live in harmony with nature. As outside development, industrialization, and tourism rose, Cindi saw Hawai‘i islands’…
Documentaries, Pacific Showcase
It is a fight for history, for identity. A fight for future generations; a fight for humanity. This is the fight of the Marquesas Islands. For more than 40 years,…
Documentaries, Film For Thought, Pacific Showcase
Many Pakeha (Europeans) in Aotearoa/New Zealand have long prided themselves on the country''s supposed positive history of race relations. They cite the Treaty of Waitangi signed by Māori chiefs and…
Documentaries, Pacific Showcase
When freedivers Sachiko Fukumoto and William Trubridge are unable to access the natural water-birth they passionately want for the birth of their first child in Japan, they travel to Aotearoa…
Documentaries, Green Screen, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the Liberty Square public-housing community learn about a $300 million revitalization project in 2015, they know that this sudden interest comes from…
Documentaries, Made In Hawaii
REEL WĀHINE OF HAWAI‘I is a film series that redresses gender inequity in the film industry by documenting the real-life stories of Hawai‘i women filmmakers through a female gaze. Filmed…
Asian|American, Documentaries, Made In Hawaii
December 7, 1941. The nation of Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. The United States enters World War II. Fueled by unfounded suspicions of disloyalty and wartime hysteria, over 2,200 Americans of…
Documentaries, New American Perspectives
A poetic and personal exploration of displacement, inequality and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol on a journey tracing the parallels between the collapse of her family…
Asian|American, Documentaries, Made In Hawaii
Embark on a mesmerizing musical journey through the multi-faceted history of Korean American immigrants in Hawaiʻi with SONGS OF LOVE, a captivating reverie of song and history. This film weaves…
Documentaries, Film For Thought, Pacific Showcase
In 1972, the planting of a beach umbrella by young Aboriginal activists in the lawns opposite Parliament House sparked passion across the country. Sitting strong and proud on Ngunnawal country,…