Documentaries, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
In the small Himalayan country of Bhutan, Happiness Agents are working for the Ministry of Gross National Happiness (GNH). They are collecting data for the Happiness Survey in order to…
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, New American Perspectives, YES
An inspirational film that captures a moment in time when the lithe and self-aware Ashima Shiraishi, who at 13 was considered one of the best rock climber in the sport,…
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…
Documentaries, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Spotlight on China
Former nightclub dancer Coby Yee decides to get back on stage again after joining the senior dance troupe Grant Avenue Follies. In their heyday, they were all part of the…
Documentaries
From 2004-10, O’ahu was a stand-in location for a mysterious island that was a pivotal point of an episodic sci-fi television series that captured the pop culture zeitgeist internationally and…
Documentaries, Spotlight on Japan
The story of a legendary Taiwanese-style home cooking restaurant in Tokyo called Fumin, where patrons not only fall in love with the food, but also the character of Chef Sai…
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
Weaving together interviews, performances, and rare archival footage spanning over 70 years, this documentary follows the life and artistry of Nobuko Miyamoto, a Japanese American multidisciplinary dancer, singer, performer, and…
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
An impassioned surfer, Taylor Lane, creates a functional surfboard with 10,000 littered cigarette butts collected from California beaches. The Cigarette Surfboard takes Taylor around the world to learn from professional…
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…
Documentaries, Spotlight on Korea
In THE LAST OF THE SEA WOMEN, an extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors wage a spirited battle against vast oceanic threats. Often called real-life mermaids, the haenyeo divers of…
Documentaries
For Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer who suffered from a degenerative muscular disease, his time spent playing World of Warcraft gave him a powerful way to connect with a community…
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…