Documentaries, New American Perspectives
A follow-up to her award-winning documentary on the trials and tribulations of Philippine journalist Maria Ressa (who also won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize), director Ramona Diaz looks at the…
Documentaries, Spotlight on Japan
Journalist Shiori Itō turns the camera on herself in a breathtakingly courageous investigation of her own sexual assault, which resulted in a landmark case for the Me Too movement in…
Spotlight on Hong Kong
Rising filmmaker Sasha Chuk wrote, directed, and co-stars in this award-winning feature debut adapted from her own semi-autobiographical novella. She plays the wife of a Hunanese man who she reunites…
Documentaries, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
The film is an unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other. Three right-wing activists—a newly politicized father-to-be in New Jersey, an Air Force veteran organizing conservatives in New…
Documentaries
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community''s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta,…
Documentaries
In the early 20th century, before the height of the Harlem Renaissance, the New York neighborhood San Juan Hill was a center of cultural innovation. Musical phenomena like bebop and…
Documentaries, Indigenous Lens
In collaboration with Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami people, THE FALLING SKY follows the Yanomami leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa as he fights to return the world to balance in closely observed…
Panorama
Despite constant repression in his home country, which has already led him to be imprisoned twice, exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof continues to make hard-hitting films. His latest one is…
Documentaries, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
The case is named after plaintiff Amanda Zurawski, who was denied an emergency abortion and went into septic shock, having to spend three days in the ICU. As a result…