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Duane Andersen

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3000 Cups of Tea is the story of Greg Mortenson, his mission to bring about peace through education, his meteoric rise, and the scandal that brought him to his knees.

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306 Hollywood uses humor, fantasy, and drama to transform the story of an old lady into an epic tale of what remains after life ends.

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Directors:

Elan Bogarin & Jonathan Bogarin

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 Boston’s traditional old-school politics are challenged when the top candidates in the historic 2021 mayoral race are four non-white women.The film traces Mel King’s 1983 mayoral run and Boston’s busing crisis of the 1970s, setting the stage for candidates who never envisioned themselves in decision-making positions; elections that will be increasingly decided by Americans inspired to vote for the first time; and resistance from those uncomfortable with anything that threatens the status quo.

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Director:

Daphne McWilliams

A Crime on the Bayou

Black teenager Gary Duncan is arrested for touching a white boy’s arm. He stands up to the most powerful white supremacist in 1960s Louisiana with the aid of a young Jewish attorney. Systemic racism meets its match in decisive courtroom battles including a landmark case in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Director:

Nancy Buirski

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Longing to fulfill a childhood promise made to her family, scientist Nita Patel races to develop a life saving vaccine during the height of a global pandemic. As Nita and her team of all women scientists face mounting pressures, both personal and professional, their commitment, passion and drive is tested in their quest to make an impact.

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Director:

Erika Cohn

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Chesang (13) asks the god of the wind for help escaping marriage arranged to an old man. It sends her to find a secret flower full of poison, for her to use however she chooses. A Song That Slays is a tragedy based on the legend of a young girl who uses the mystery of nature to overcome the violence of man.

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Director:

Mo Scarpelli

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Afghan Cycles is a feature-length documentary about women fighting for cultural change in an unlikely place: on bicycles.

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AFTER TILLER

After Tiller follows four doctors who perform late term abortions as they confront a host of obstacles—from moral and personal dilemmas to restrictions placed on their practices by state legislation.

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Directors:

Lana Wilson & Martha Shane

Afterward

As a member of the first generation born in Israel in the aftermath of the Holocast, Ofra Bloch was saturated with collective memories of a deeply traumatic, recent past. The film follows her journey to free herself from the hatred of the “Other”.

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Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. An immersive portrait told in his own words and through the creation of a new commission inspired by his life, Ailey fully profiles this brilliant and enigmatic man who—when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him—was determined to build one that would.

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Director:

Jamila Wignot

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In the heart of the great Pacific, a story is taking place that may change the way you see everything.

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Director:

Chris Jordan

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Alive Inside chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.

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A rebellious, queer reform Rabbi activist and a passionate Baptist Pastor decide to take action by breaking outside of their respective religious bubbles and setting in motion a plan to trade pulpits and bring their congregations together to worship and break bread over two years.

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Director:

Ondi Timoner

Allen v. Farrow

Allen v. Farrow is a four-part documentary series that reveals the scandal involving Woody Allen Mia Farrow’s then 7 year old daughter, the following custody trial, Allen’s future relationship with Farrow’s daughter, Soon-Yi; and the following years.

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Director:

Kirby Dick

ALWAYS IN SEASON

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.

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Director:

Jacqueline Olive

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Tucked against the border to Canada, the resilient people who live in the sparsely populated Montana Hi-Line are uniquely affected with what America was, is, and will be. Even in such remoteness the Montana Hi-Line is a microcosm with a clear division between the haves and the have-nots, where systemic racism runs deep, and organized crime profits.

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Director:

Neil Gelinas

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An Insignificant Man chronicles the journey of the Aam Aadami (or Common Man’s Party) party from its formation in December 2012 to the Delhi state elections in December 2013.

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Directors:

Khushboo Ranka & Vinay Shukla

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A boy caught between the ancient and the new navigates modernization on his own terms. By becoming a lion (Anbessa) he can fight back against the forces outside of his control.

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Director:

Mo Scarpelli

Anchor Point

Female wildland firefighters working in a system of power-abuse and harassment must choose between staying silent and accepting the status quo or becoming their own advocates for change.

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Director:

Holly Tuckett

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Lilah is completely alone. She hasn’t seen another living thing in years. The only person she has left isn’t one she particularly likes: herself. Kiah ekes out a solitary existence at a family cabin in the woods. Getting by. Surviving. Struggling to stay alive in the face of threats from without and within. And the terror of not knowing which is which.

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Director:

Lane Russell

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Another Body follows a college student’s search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.

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Director:

Sophie Compton & Reuben Hamlyn

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Apayauq Reitan’s journey of gender, mental health, and purpose on her way to become the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska.

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Director:

Zeppelin Zeerip

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Three special needs friends ruminate on life, love, and the extenuating circumstances of one fateful day.

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Director:

Bernie Garcia

Stanford professor Ben Barres stands in his office on the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, Calif. on Tuesday July 11, 2006. Barres is using his experiences as a transgendered scientist to try and debunk Larry Summers' famous speech about women in science. (Photo by Jakub Mosur/For Boston Globe)

A biopic about a transgender scientist who revolutionized neuroscience and fought for women, LGBTQ+, and the disadvantaged in STEM.

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Director:

Pamela Green

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True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean leader. The film follows the trial of the two female assassins, probing the question: Were the women trained killers or innocent pawns of North Korea?

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Director:

Ryan White

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A small number of unpopular pro-nuclear advocates have positioned themselves in a David and Goliath battle to save the climate, with a proven yet completely misunderstood and mythicized solution; carbon free nuclear power. But these individuals are losing, struggling with their own mutual conflicts, while clashing with environmentalists across the globe, and constantly seeking new methods to communicate their unwelcome message – that nuclear is the only solution.

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Director:

Frankie Fenton

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The story of Alice Guy-Blanche, a pioneer in the art of cinema.

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Belly of the Beast

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.

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Director:

Erika Cohn

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Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas White began a movement in the 1980s that changed global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story.

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Director:

Kief Davidson

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Bias is a film that challenges us to confront our hidden biases and understand what we risk when we follow our gut. Through exposing her own biases, award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser  highlights the nature of implicit bias, the grip it holds on our social and professional lives, and what it will take to induce change

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Director:

Robin Hauser

Bitterbrush

In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate the future as they work alone herding cattle.

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Director:

Emelie Mahdavian

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Seeking to buck the white male status quo, a group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch a news startup asking who has been omitted from mainstream coverage, and how to include them.

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Directors:

Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston, Chelsea Hernandez

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The Bridge Poem. Directed by Lucy Walker, It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.

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BRIGHT SPARK

Artist Trevor Southey dreams of becoming a Michelangelo for the Mormon Church but it all comes crashing down when his homosexuality is discovered.

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Directors:

Matt Black & Nathan Florence

Bring Your Own Brigade

In the documentary Bring Your Own Brigade, Lucy Walker captures the heroism and horror of the 2018 California wildfires. Embedded with a team of firefighters during the deadliest week of fires in the state’s history, Walker’s film takes viewers on an eyewitness journey into the very heart of the inferno.

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Director:

Lucy Walker

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16 year-old Caity and her newly sober father, Paul, are co-operating their family business: a locally-beloved haunted house. When Paul relapses, Caity tries to cover it up but struggles to manage as she tests the limits of her own relationship to substances and falls for a new employee, Hannah.

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Director:

Lindsay Calleran

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This Cinema-Verite film follows prominent American political consultant, James Carville, as he tries to bring hope back to politics.

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Casey is the story of two men bringing their lives together while haunted by the shadow of a former partner gone missing five years before.

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Director:

Rylee Syme

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Master cellist, Ansel Evans, has been diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). As his body shuts down, he makes the difficult decision to minimize the suffering for his closest loved ones by planning one last concert.

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Director:

Angie Su

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Using the lens of archetypal astrology, we paint a sweeping journey into “the arc of the moral universe” across world-changing revolutionary epochs that epitomize the quest for liberation, freedom and justice. We land in “the fierce urgency of now” at this epic moment of revolutionary transformation.

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Directors:

Louie Schwartzberg & Kenny Ausubel

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Changing the Game takes us into the lives of three high school athletes—all at different stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and unique paths as transgender teens.

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Director:

Michael Barnett

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Cipher is an audio-visual live show about a young man that suffers from schizophrenia.

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Director:

Cam Goold

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Arthur Ashe shook the sporting world by becoming the first and only Black man to win the U.S. Open. Citizen Ashe uncovers the complex man behind the outwardly cool and enigmatic tennis legend.

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Directors:

Rex Miller, Sam Pollard

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The day to day activities of the operation of Boston city government with particular emphasis on the work of the Mayor and his cabinet and senior staff.

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Director:

Frederick Wiseman

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Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

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Director:

Chinonye Chukwu

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An unexpectedly funny and joyful love story, poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley navigate life and mortality in the face of an incurable diagnosis.

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Director:

Ryan White

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Comic Relief is the story of a woman in her early 40s determined to chase her dreams while battling ever-increasing social alcoholism and depression. 

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Director:

Koura Linda

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Coming Clean examines addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts and political leaders, as they come together to bring the profiteers to justice and rebuild in the wake of the deadliest drug epidemic in our history.

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Director:

Ondi Timoner

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Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank provides a look behind the scenes at one of America’s most controversial and captivating public figures, former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank during his last year in office.

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Directors:

Sheila Canavan & Mike Chandler

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In the fall of 2016, the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service, the four members of the indie folk band The Infamous Flapjack Affair set out on a journey through the public lands of the Colorado River Basin. Their goal: to meet people who have crafted their lives in the Basin; to hear their stories about the places they love and the challenges that face those places; and to write music inspired by those encounters. 

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Directors:

Amy Marquis & Dana Romanoff

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Cortina is a global narrative with three interrelated yet separate storylines and timeframes set in Argentina, Jordan, and Korea.  Cortina, Spanish for curtain, is a Tango term used to signal change and transition with music. The stories of  Cortina are journeys of transformation using the unifying language of dance. The TV series is a procedural serial episodic series.

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Director:

Harper Klay

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Cracked Up is the story of Darrell Hammond and his experience with the complexities of trauma, recovery, and survival of his life.

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Director:

Michelle Esrick

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In a Texas military town, three teenage girls confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of a fever dream summer.

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Directors:

Parker Hill & Isabel Bethencourt

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Dante Alighieri, poet and politician, is exiled from his beloved home in Medieval Florence on pain of death by burning at the stake, and spends the remainder of his life, impoverished, wandering, and writing – one of the greatest works in all of literature – The Divine Comedy.

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Director:

Ric Burns

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Did a desperate, unemployed local man really track down and capture the serial killer known as Zip-Tie, all to impress his ex-wife, or does he just have an innocent man tied up in his basement?

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Kohl Glass

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When 21-year-old hippie-millionaire Michael Brody Jr. decided to give away his $ 25 million fortune to anyone in need, he ignited a psychedelic spiral of events. Fifty years later, an enormous cache of these letters are discovered, unopened. Award-winning director Keith Maitland reveals the incredible story of Michael Brody Jr. and the countless struggling Americans who sought his help to create a deeply moving meditation on desire, need, philanthropy, and love.

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Director:

Keith Maitland

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Four years after a former classmate with an AR15 shoots Samantha in her Holocaust Studies class, she and surviving classmates now face a harrowing sentencing trial that will determine his fate of life or death. They are forced to reckon with re-traumatization and existential questions of intolerance and justice.
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Director:

Kim A Snyder

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Carolina returns to Venezuela after 20 years to sell her father’s cacao plantation. Soon she discovers the plantation is occupied by its former workers, who are determined to stay at all costs. A game of manipulation ensues. No one will escape the death that rules this land.

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Director:

Jorge Thielen Armand

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This film is about the rise of openly gay writers and gay liberation and it’s about the coming of age of Hollywood – the eclipse of the old studio system and the rise of the new one, a time when original, risk-taking movies flourished, old rules were shattered, and a new breed of filmmakers took on adult themes and characters who had never been seen in mainstream films before.

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Warwick

Set against a music world profoundly divided between black and white, Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over tells the dramatic story of Dionne Warwick’s meteoric rise from New Jersey gospel choirs to international cross-over superstardom.

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Directors:

Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner

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Distance is a short narrative film about the power of place and the nature of power in the modern American West.

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Directors:

Anson Fogel & Alexandra Fuller

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The film chronicles American cultural and political life through the rise and fall of Roger Ailes.

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Dog Valley is a feature-length documentary about the 1988 murder of gay Mormon, Gordon Church, and the legacy he left behind.

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Director:

Dave Lindsay

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Dogtown Redemption is the intimate story of recyclers in West Oakland—a journey through a landscape of love and loss, devotion and addiction, prejudice and poverty.

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Directors:

Amir Soltani & Chihiro Wimbush

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Down the Fence profiles horse trainers on their journey to compete for one of the most challenging equestrian championships in Reno, NV, revealing their challenges and a rare glimpse into their unique lifestyle along the way.

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Directors:

MJ Isakson & Lori Adamski Peek

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Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world through the eyes of one of its survivors: Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage sex worker who worked the streets of Chicago, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community.

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Director:

Kim Longinotto

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Dying in Vein is an intimate and deeply personal exploration of heroin addiction in three young adults who, as young children, seem to have it all.

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Director:

Jenny Mackenzie

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Earth Camp One integrates first-person storytelling, humor, archive, character, animation, and performance. This longitudinal film spans 50 years of life, so that time itself is itself a kind of character of the narrator’s experience with loss, hope, and healing.

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Director:

Jennie Livingston

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A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.

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Director:

Mo Scarpelli

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An American woman’s chance encounter with Fidel Castro leads her on a personal journey to uncover truths behind the tumultuous and often clandestine relationship marking a half-century of rancorous foreign policy between two nations only 90 miles apart.

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Director:

Jeri Rice

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 Eternal You accompanies people from around the globe who use artificial intelligence (AI) to connect with the dead. Joshua chats day and night with the digital clone of his deceased first love and lets her take part in his everyday life. Numerous competitors hope for a lucrative market, as religious and collective forms of mourning are losing relevance. Is this the beginning of the end of finitude?

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Directors:

Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck

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A feature documentary about the life of Ethel Kennedy- her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy, and raising their children after his death.

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Director:

Rory Kennedy

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Ex Libris– The New York Public Library, goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a place of welcome, cultural exchange and learning.

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Director:

Frederick Wiseman

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Eye of the Storm, a laugh-filled biopic that steamrolls through five decades of American comedy, with tales from vaudeville, the mob-ruled era of nightclubs,  and the sitcoms of the 70s and 80s all the while incorporating the spontaneous antics of a young Robin Williams performing at his improvisational best. Storm exuberantly recalls his experiences, sharing personal anecdotes about a small galaxy of stars.

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Director:

Brooke Harris Wolff

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Two dozen girls have run away from their families, and now live together in an abandoned schoolhouse. They are linked by their histories, their dreams, and a film project they are making to transcend the violence and sorrow of the world around them. Faith is a meditation on sisterhood, escape, and using cinema to convey what consumes and strengthens the heart.

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Director:

Mo Scarpelli

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Cartoonist Matt Furie battles to reclaim his beloved creation, Pepe the Frog, from internet trolls who co-opted it as an emblem for far-right politics. Feels Good Man documents the confusing world of memes and online message boards and explains how a cartoon of a stoned frog became the new swastika.

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Arthur Jones

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Three teenagers leave home for one year to test themselves in the wilds of northern Norway at a traditional “Folk High School.” Dropped in the arctic wilderness, they must rely on themselves and a ragtag pack of loyal sled dogs to make the scary step from childhood to adulthood.

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Directors:

Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady

FOLLOWING HARRY

Following Harry joins Harry Belafonte on his quest to uncover the voices of young activists today working so passionately to change our social justice landscape.

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Director:

Susanne Rostock

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From the Director of Step, Amanda Lipitz, with Executive Producer, Reese Witherspoon, this feature documentary tells the story of four young Chinese American cousins, navigating milestones and culminating with the girls’ trip to China as they visit the places where they were born,

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Director:

Amanda Lipitz

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After decades of war and an oppressive Taliban regime, four Afghan photojournalists face the realities of building a free press in a country left to stand on its own – reframing Afghanistan for the world and for themselves.

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Directors:

Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli

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An intimate portrait of Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue.

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Director:

Francesco Carrozzini

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Ashes in tow, Anne and Babs ditch a “celebration of life,” steal a car, and take to the road to honor the dearly departed with one last adventure.

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Director:

Celeste Chaney

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GAUCHOS is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of the South American cowboy as their age-old way of life collides with the modern world.

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Directors:

Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw

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Generation Wealth is a 25-year investigation into how the ideas of wealth and the American Dream have been productized and exported around the world.

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Director:

Lauren Greenfield

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This short experimental lyrical film takes a peek inside an extraordinary mind as we rediscover Genevieve Bahrenburg after a traumatic brain injury.

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Director:

Jill Goldman

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Every year, thousands of students from twelve cities perform a monologue of Wilson’s in competition for a chance to perform at the August Wilson Theater on Broadway. Through following this competition, Giving Voice examines how Wilson, a singular talent and artist, provides a lens for a new generation to understand the world they live in and inspires them to find their own voice to survive and persevere in their increasingly complicated world.

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Directors:

James D. Stern & Fernando Villena

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As 2024 begins, the school board leases the Nelson Brothers 1,200 acres, giving them the chance to farm more land than they have ever had. With climate change, equipment failures, rising costs, threats of flooding and drought, and brotherly tension, the brothers must find a way to push through. This year will be make or break for the Nelson brothers. Will their determination and passion pull them through, or will their ambition backfire?

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Directors:

Natalie Baszile & Hyacinth Parker

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Topics in the 14th season of Healing Quest will include plant medicine, quantum and remote healing, biological dentistry, infrared technologies, sound, music and vibrational healing, regenerative agriculture and leadership. Healing Moments will continue to be featured, with world-class nature footage from Louie Schwartzberg and high vibrational music from Gary Malkin and Olivia Newton John who co-hosted for six seasons. 

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Director:

Judy Brooks

HERE I AM

A documentary about love, death and grief , following musician Rayya Elias, and author Elizabeth Gilbert (‘Eat, Pray, Love’) during the final days of their relationship.

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Director:

Marc J. Francis

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Holy Hell is the story of a young filmmaker who finds himself drawn into a secretive spiritual community headed by a charismatic leader in 1980’s West Hollywood.

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Director:

Will Allen

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Once a safe and effective product has made its way into arms around the globe, this will be the dispositive inside story – the historical record, with unprecedented access, of an extraordinary race against time.

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Director:

David France

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The story of women who are living with metastatic breast cancer, the researchers and physicians who are trying to cure it, and the youngest generation that is at risk and are fighting for more funding and better treatment.

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Director:

Jenny Mackenzie

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An intimate, poetic journey into the soul of the Colorado River, as she flows, rages and teems with life at an unprecedented time when her relationship with humans has pushed her survival to the edge.

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Director:

Mara Tasker

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I Am We follows the life of an individual or individuals (and their family) as they navigate life with this fascinating, highly controversial and vastly misunderstood disorder – Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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In Football We Trust is an insightful and moving documentary feature film exploring in rich detail the remarkable story behind the Polynesian Pipeline to the NFL.

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Directors:

Tony Vainuku & Erika Cohn

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In Jackson Heights is about the racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York.

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Director:

Frederick Wiseman

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A love story between a Jewish woman and a German Officer in the 1930s and 1940s as the Nazis come to power and implement the Holocaust. From the novel by Richard Condon.

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Director:

Edoardo Ponti

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Into the Weeds follows the story of Lee Johnson and his fight for justice against agrochemical giant, Monsanto (now Bayer), the manufacturer of Roundup herbicide. Blending interviews, testimonials, trial footage, news coverage, and vérité, the film follows the progression of Johnson’s groundbreaking lawsuit, while also considering the systemic impact of glyphosate-based herbicides on our reality.

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Invisible Nation

Invisible Nation is a living account of Tsai’s tightrope walk as she balances the hopes and dreams of her nation between the colossal geopolitical forces of the U.S. and China.

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Director:

Vanessa Hope

Jacinta

As a child, Jacinta became entangled in her mother’s world of drugs and crime and has followed her in and out of the system since she was a teenager. Despite her desire to rebuild her life for her daughter, Jacinta continually struggles against the forces that first led to her addiction.

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Director:

Jessica Earnshaw

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Biography of rock icon and goddess of sound, Janis Joplin.

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Director:

Amy Berg

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A 24-year-old American student mysteriously disappears in China, leading his relentless orthodox Mormon family on a faith-driven quest for the truth, defying government statements, and venturing into a dangerous underworld until a South Korean spy runner claims he has evidence of the student being abducted by North Korean spies and living in North Korea, for which he demands $100,000 as proof.

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Director:

Scott Christopherson

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A strange tale of dictator Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos’ creation of a safari park on a Philippine island.
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Director:

Lauren Greenfield

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Local Utahns advocate for imprisoned exotic animals in a well-known amusement park.

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Director:

Bernie Garcia

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Last Flight Home follows the intentional death of Eli Timoner and the emotional turmoil his family faces as they grapple with his decision to end his own life, while helping him work through the doubts and insecurities he held onto throughout his life in his final days. In the end, this film is a discovery of the grace and serenity that can emerge when death is understood and embraced.

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Director:

Ondi Timoner

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Twelve diverse Christian leaders find hope and fellowship at a series of boundary-breaking retreats in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The divisions between them become apparent and test both their common belief in the universal importance of love and kindness and the bonds they build over the course of a year. Leap of Faith explores whether we can disagree and still belong to each other in a divided world.

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Director:

Nicholas Ma

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Leftover Women explores the journey of three women in their twenties, contending with the stigma of “Sheng nü” a stigma rooted in traditional Chinese values and attitudes. The film follows three remarkable women on their quest to find Mr. Right before society deems them Leftover.

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Directors:

Hilla Medalia & Shosh Shlam

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Follow the daily lives of Danny Robertshaw, Ron Danta and their non-profit organization which has rescued and found homes for upwards of 10,000 dogs since 2005.

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Director:

Ron Davis

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Like a Rolling Stone is a feature documentary film about the life and groundbreaking work of legendary editor and rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres, who ran the music section at Rolling Stone magazine.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) fights to defend American democracy during Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial while coping with a personal tragedy.

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Director:

Madeleine Carter

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Max is a fourteen-year-old who likes to play guitar with his dad, jump on the trampoline in the backyard, and go to church with his family. Max was born a girl, but from the age of two, he knew he was a boy.
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Directors:

Tanya Selvaratnam & Rose Bush

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Anthony Marquez fulfilled his dream of joining the Marine Corps in  2011 and was sent Sangin, Afghanistan. His unit lost 17 Marines on the deployment. Anthony returned home, but nothing was the same. What could he do to let the men who died families know that their son would not be forgotten? He made a vow to create a “Battlefield Cross” for every Gold Star family from the deployment, and deliver it. 

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Director:

Manny Marquez

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The remarkable story of Maxima Acuna, a subsistence farmer in Cajamarca, located in the Peruvian Andes standing up to Newmont Mining Corporation and fearlessly fighting for her rights to live her life the way her family has for hundreds of years

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Director:

Claudia Sparrow

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Maya and the Wave tells the extraordinary story of Maya Gabeira, the first woman to attempt to surf the giant wave in Nazaré, Portugal. She nearly drowns – and is ridiculed and ostracized by the male big wave surfers who dominate the sport. Three spine surgeries and five years later, she surfs the biggest wave a woman has ever surfed. Maya becomes the first female surfer honored with a Guinness World Record.

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Director:

Stephanie Johnes

2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and husband Chasten share an intimate moment in "Mayor Pete."

Mayor Pete brings viewers inside Pete Buttigieg’s campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, providing an unprecedented intimacy with the candidate, his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team. This film reveals what really goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land and ways it changes the lives of those at its center.

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Director:

Jesse Moss

Meet the Patels

Meet the Patels is a laugh-out-loud real-life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams … and his parents.

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Director:

Geeta V. Patel, Ravi V. Patel

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Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman, a scientist, and an East German – became the de facto leader of the Free World, told for the first time for an international audience.

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Director:

Eva Weber

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After the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Wiseman dissects Monrovia, Indiana, A town of 1,400 as a pulse for the political landscape of the nation.

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Director:

Frederick Wiseman

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Moonlight Sonata is a deeply personal memoir about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. Their lives weave a story about what we discover when we push beyond loss.

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Director:

Irene Taylor Brodsky

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Women in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory between Azerbaijan and Armenia, courageously work to clear land mines in the wake of a brutal ethnic war, combating traditional gender roles and forming close bonds in the process.

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Feature documentary about one of the most controversial nights in music history – Disco Demolition Night –when a culture war would ignite a bonfire of records by black artists.

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Director:

Elegance Bratton

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A crusading constitutional lawyer and reforming Senator, Mary Robinson detonated an electoral earthquake by winning the Irish Presidential vote in 1990. To this day, she exerts enormous power as the Chair of The Elders; the independent group of global leaders who work for peace, justice, and human rights. This iconic change-maker is in the midst of the greatest battle of her life; the fight for a meaningful reversal of global warming.

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Director:

Aoife Kellher

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Murder Among the Mormons is a 2021 Netflix documentary series that explores the 1985 bombing homicides in Salt Lake City, Utah, that killed two members of the Latter-day Saints community. The series also examines the investigation into the bombings, the life of the convicted bomber, Mark Hofmann, and his relationship to the Mormon church.

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Director:

Tyler Measom

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Years after Lee Ed Frazier’s death, his daughter Jan made a discovery that rocked her world forever: in 1937 in Mississippi, her father had participated in the lynching of two men. Now she must grapple with what to do with that horrifying revelation about someone she loved.

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Director:

Susanna Styron

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My Sister Liv is the heart wrenching story of a young girl, Liv, who battles with depression, body dysmorphia, and suicidal thoughts. Through the lens of her older sister, Tess, we journey to uncover the shocking reality of the current teen mental health crisis.

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Director:

Alan Hicks

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Newtown documents a traumatized community fractured by grief and driven toward a sense of purpose. Joining the ranks of a growing club to which no one wants to belong, a cast of characters interconnect to weave an intimate story of community resilience.

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Director:

Kim A. Snyder

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A documentary film about the Carol Coronado infanticide case reveals the secret world of postpartum psychosis through the prism of the Carol Coronado murder case.

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Director:

Eamon Harrington

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In the late 70s and early 80s, when the concept of an LGBTQ+ family was inconceivable to most, Ry Russo-Youngand and her sister Cade were born to two lesbian mothers through sperm donors. Ry’s idyllic childhood was threatened by an unexpected lawsuit that sent shockwaves through her family’s lives and continues to reverberate today.

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Director:

Ry Russo-Young

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Of Medicine and Miracles follows Dr. Carl June as he attempts to find a cure for cancer using the HIV virus. All of June’s research and work are on the line when 5-year-old Emily Whitehead, who has run out of options to beat her Leukemia, becomes the first child to enroll in his experimental trial.

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Director:

Ross Kauffman

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Of Night and Light tells the astounding unknown story of what might be the scientific discovery of our generation. The root bark of a West African Shrub, ibogaine, can treat problems including traumatic brain injury, depression, anxiety, PTSD, addictions, and physical disabilities.

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When a media interview links the immigration crisis at the USA-Mexico border with Japanese-American incarceration camps of WWII, Kishi Bashi goes on a mission to learn about the Japanese incarceration and compose an album bringing diverse people together in conversation.

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Directors:

Kishi Bashi & Justin Taylor Smith

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Once Was Water seeks to bring a fundamental understanding to diverse audiences, of the global water crisis and possible solutions. Our goal is to bring an awareness of the efforts, technological, physical and political, that are being made to better equip us to face the future.

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Director:

Christopher Beaver

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A look at the cloistered Hasidic community of New York focusing mainly on three individuals seeking to exit the community.

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Directors:

Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady

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One Planet is a beautifully-shot panorama of the earth and all of the damage done to it by humanity since the industrial revolution.

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Director:

Bambi Lynn Blitz

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This feature-length documentary will present a global picture, from the vantage point of critical countries – those embracing change, those resisting it, and those most perilously threatened by climate change – through the lens of their respective governmental climate teams. Negotiating the global path to zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will be the single most complex and difficult diplomatic feat ever attempted.

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Directors:

Alexandra Kerry and Tanaz Eshaghian

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The story of Teal Swan, her tale of inner strength, challenging fear and trauma, and rising from the ashes.

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Director:

Paola Marino

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The year is 1992, and Israeli-Palestinian relations are at an all-time low. In an attempt to stop the bloodshed, a small group of Israelis and Palestinians meet in Oslo- secretly and against the law. The unsanctioned meetings that changed the Middle East forever are chronicled only by the negotiators’ diaries.

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Directors:

Mor Loushy & Daniel Sivan

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Out and Around is a feature length documentary that focuses on one lesbian couple’s journey to travel to fifteen countries through Asia, Africa and South America in search of the people who are leading the movement for LGBT equality across the developing world.

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Directors:

Lauren Fash & Ryan Suffern

Pandora's Promise

Pandora’s Promise asks whether the one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty.

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Paper and Glue is about the process of making and discussing unique projects and elevating the best qualities in people – qualities that we all can recognize, share, and celebrate regardless of our differences.

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Director:

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Plan C

Plan C is a feature documentary that chronicles the urgent battle against reproductive oppression in the United States, revealing an underground network of activist women who refuse to accept restrictive laws and the clinic paradigm.

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Director:

Tracy Droz Tragos

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Planet Z is a feature-length documentary capturing the youth-led climate movement in the USA surrounding a pivotal election year, amidst the coronavirus.

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Director:

Tom Donahue

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Possible Selves looks at a broken foster care system from two angles: on one hand, the lived experience of current and former foster children; on the other, insightful and heartfelt analysis by people who understand the complexities of the system and how it can be improved.

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Director:

Shaun Kadlec

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On the run after abandoning his post, a Confederate soldier takes shelter in the isolated cabin of two women who now find themselves at his mercy. Praying Mantis is Mack Breeden’s directorial debut under her production banner Ginger Tits Productions, which she co-founded with her producing and writing partner Riley Scott.

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Director:

Mack Breeden

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Six Survivors of childhood sexual abuse by Catholic priests become a makeshift family as they collaborate to create staged scenes depicting rituals of power in the church.

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Project Coexistence is the incredible true story of the wildest birth control on the planet and follows two women on the front lines of conservation and science implementing PZP with horses in the American West and with elephants in South Africa.

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Prophet’s Play is a disturbing and shocking examination of Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints.

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Director:

Amy Berg

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Character-driven historical documentary chronicling the unwavering fight of two infectious disease medical pioneers to provide world-class care for HIV/AIDS patients against the backdrop of conservative, Mormon Utah in the 1980s, despite criticism, ostracism and threats from the community at large.

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Director:

Jenny Mackenzie

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Rafea, a Bedouin woman from Jordan, travels to India to attend the Barefoot College, where illiterate grandmothers from around the world are trained in 6 months to be solar engineers.

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Rebel Hearts tells the story of an order of nuns formed in the 1960s who believed that educating girls and young women would change the world for the better.

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Director:

Pedro Kos

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Set to the backdrop of the most diverse square mile in America – Clarkston, Georgia – the film uncovers what is possible when we leave the security of our tribes and what is at stake for our country if we don’t.

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Directors:

Erin Bernhardt & Din Blankenship

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A Cuban-American director travels to his exiled parents’ homeland to mount a stage production of the musical RENT, discovering an inspiring artistic family and embarking on a personal journey to reclaim his complicated heritage.

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Directors:

Victor Patrick Alvarez & Andy Senor Jr.

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This longitudinal documentary explores Sarah’s life- one of seven siblings in rural Missouri- bearing witness to her Journey from adolescence to a young mother. Do the cycles of poverty repeat, generation after generation, even when there is such strong hope for more?

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Director:

Tracy Droz Tragos

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Reeling from boarding school expulsion, an ambitious 16-year-old boy seeks sanctuary and adventure with rebellious twin sisters.

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Director:

Weston Razooli

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Roll Red Roll is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys will be boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.

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Director:

Nancy Schwartzman

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A struggling Afro-LatinX actor falls into a nightmarish world on the set of her latest and most disarming, dead-end gig.

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Director:

Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz

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Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure was a secret. Sally’s life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, tells the story of their hidden romance and the sacrifices that accompanied their 27 years together.

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Director:

Cristina Costantini

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Same Sex Attracted is a documentary about the LGBTQ and SSA (Same-Sex Attracted) community at Brigham Young University, a private institution owned and operated by the historically conservative Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints.

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Directors:

Maddy Purves & Zoie Young

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Satisfied takes viewers through Renée Elise Goldsberry’s emotional journey through her work in Hamilton providing an intimate look at Goldsberry’s path as she grapples with fertility and the desire to have a family, all while balancing her growing career against the backdrop of the hit musical Hamilton. 

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Directors:

Chris Bolan & Melissa Haizlip

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Nestled in the rice fields of the Philippines, the Laniohan family faces the life-inhibiting consequences of blindness until a group of doctors visit the village and give the gift of sight in under five minutes.

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Director:

Cole Sax

Seeking Asylum

Seeking Asylum is an award-winning feature documentary that bears witness to the endless deterrents migrants face when petitioning for asylum in the United States. In a dismantled system that has been designed for failure, we follow one woman’s journey as she searches for protection for her and kids. 

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Director:

Rae Ceretto

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Shooting the Mafia weaves together Letizia Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and the now 84-year-old’s own memories, to paint a portrait of a remarkable woman whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.

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Director:

Kim Longinotto

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A former child bride from a notorious polygamous sect in Utah escapes her painful past by creating a magical fantasy realm she calls Snowland. Within this artistic endeavor, which spans decades, is a metaphorical journey of lost innocence, survival, and self-discovery, and maybe even a portal of hope for others in this secretive American cult.

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Director:

Jill Orschel

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An intimate look at the professional life of Rex Lee, the 39th Solicitor General of the United States. His life was cut short due to cancer but his impact and legacy on the high court and the rule of law is still felt today.

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Director:

Dodge Billingsley

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Someday is the story of Michael Donaldson, an 84-year-old Marine veteran, gay man, and free-speech legal maverick who, after a lifetime of mental, emotional, and physical battles, has chosen to pursue the world record for under-ice distance swimming in Lake Weissensee, Austria. Michael’s pursuit of a world record, and his personal reckoning.

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Directors:

Matthew & Jaron Halmy

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Song of Lahore is a documentary following an ensemble of traditional Pakistani musicians as they strive to preserve their nation’s musical roots amidst a tattered and narrowing cultural landscape.

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Directors:

Andy Schocken & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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In 1991 a group of countercultural visionaries built an enormous replica of earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2. When eight “Biospherians” lived sealed inside, they faced ecological calamities and cult accusations. Their epic adventure is a cautionary tale and a testament to the power of small groups reimagining the world.

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Director:

Matt Wolf

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Splinters of a Nation tells the story of roughly 8,000 German Prisoners of War who were sent to Utah during WWII.

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Director:

Scott Porter

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Step follows the inner-city Balitmore girls Step Team, BLSYW, as they navigate their senior year, compete in a competition and apply to colleges.

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Sugar Babies: Two Epidemics of Diabetes in Our Children is a compelling documentary that examines the public health epidemic of diabetic children in America.

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This unique VR project is an in-depth look at the personal journey of Xate Singali: from her roots as a famous singer in Kurdistan and to her new life as a soldier on the front lines as she starts a female-only Iraqi fighting unit

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Swift Current is a devastating portrait of Sheldon Kennedy, a National Hockey League player,  grappling with brutal childhood trauma as he strives to educate communities and advocate for fellow victims.

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An intimate look at The 5 Browns, a group of classically trained sibling pianists who experienced a meteoric rise to stardom only to be devastated years later by the tragic revelation that all three sisters, Desirae, Deondra and Melody, had been sexually abused by their father during childhood.

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The Apollo chronicles the unique history and contemporary legacy of New York City’s landmark Apollo Theater.

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Director:

Roger Ross Williams

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An investigative look into America’s critically flawed healthcare system by the team that produced The Invisible War and The Hunting Ground.

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The Breadwinner is an animated feature sharing the universal tale of girl empowerment and the potential of imagination to transform one’s circumstances.

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Director:

Nora Twomey

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Physician, scientist, author, and cancer survivor Dr. David Servan-Schreiber guides this documentary exploring the connection between lifestyle and illness and advocating that lifestyle changes rather than drug protocols can not only produce better overall health outcomes but also transform the current Western health care paradigm.

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Director:

Meghan O'Hara

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The first commercial album ever recorded by a prison inmate proved to be both a blessing and curse for this soul musician with a life sentence.

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Director:

Daniel Vernon

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The Condor & The Eagle offers a glimpse into a developing spiritual renaissance as four indigenous leaders learn from each other’s long legacy of resistance to colonialism and its extractive economy. Their path through the jungle takes them on an unexpectedly challenging and liberating journey, which will forever change their attachment to the Earth and one another.

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Directors:

Clement & Sophie Guerra

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Hollywood’s infamous flop, The Conqueror, stars John Wayne as Genghis Khan, embodying a slew of racist and sexist problems. Its enduring notoriety stems from the tragic fact that nearly half its cast and crew developed cancer, revealing a tale of government deception and negligent production choices, highlighting the devastating impact of nuclear fallout.

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Director:

William Nunez

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The dramatic story of one unforgettable athlete, Kevin Pearce; one eye-popping sport, snowboarding; and one explosive issue, Traumatic Brain Injury. Through 20 years of astounding action and verité footage, The Crash Reel chronicles the epic rise of snowboarder Kevin Pearce, which culminates in a life-changing crash and a comeback story with a difference. Directed by Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker.

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Director:

Lucy Walker

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The untold story of American women who volunteered to go to Vietnam on an impossible mission: Help the troops forget about the war for a little while.

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Director:

Norm Anderson

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This spellbinding documentary follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old nomadic Mongolian girl who is fighting an ingrained culture of misogyny to become the first female Eagle Hunter in 2,000 years of male-dominated history.

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There’s a documentary about Rolling Stone Magazine. The New York Times has been chronicled in Page One and The Fourth Estate. There have been more than fifteen documentaries about the Playboy empire. But there has never been a documentary about the first and greatest black publishing empire. We’re calling it: The Empire of Ebony.

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Director:

Lisa Cortes

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When an image-conscious wild child unwittingly takes a new drug specifically developed to introduce foreign DNA into the human genome, she struggles with the physiological and psychological shock of radical transformation she is forced to re-examine her perceptions of the world… And herself.

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Director:

Kelsey Egan

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A feature film about the international womens’ movement as told through the lens of Gloria Steinem’s life and her relationships with remarkable activists over the years. Based on her memoir My Life on the Road.

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Director:

Julie Taymor

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The Grand Rescue recounts one of the most infamous rescues on the North Face of the Grand Teton in 1967.

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Directors:

William A. Kerig, Meredith Lavitt, Jenny Wilson

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The Great Divide is a film about gun violence in America and its connection to the history of violence in America and the trauma that this has caused on a local community level and as a society as a whole. The film seeks to bridge those divides and offer solutions to healing and reconciliation.

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Director:

Tom Donahue

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In 2016, Cambridge Analytica symbolized the troubling patterns brought to the spotlight after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

 

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Director:

Jehane Noujaim & Karim Amer

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The Ground Between Us presents these public lands debates alongside the day-to-day realities of three families who hold vastly different connections and perspectives on public lands.

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Directors:

Zeppelin Zeerip, Galen Knowles

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 The Here Now Project weaves together in-the-moment amateur footage from 2021 to create an unprecedented visual diary of the impact climate change. At once epic and intimate, the film is a wake-up call to the world from the world. The message: we’re all in this, together.

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Directors:

Jon Siskel & Greg Jacobs

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The Hunting Ground is a startling expose of sexual assault on U.S. university and college campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families.

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Director:

Kirby Dick

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Based in Salt Lake City, The Inn Between is the only place for the homeless population between the hospital and the street, or between life and death. Here, the commitment is, no one will be put out on the street again and no one will die alone. This is a model we hope will be replicated in every major city in America.

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Director:

Ondi Timoner

Invisible War

The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best-kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.

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Director:

Kirby Dick

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The Judge provides rare insight into Shari’a law, an often-misunderstood legal framework for Muslims, told through the eyes of the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s religious courts.

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Director:

Erika Cohn

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Librarians unite to combat book banning and to defend  democracy against a wave of censorship in Florida, Texas, and beyond.

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Director:

Kim A Snyder

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The Life Ahead, based on Romain Gary’s international best selling novel and set in current day Genova, Italy, tells the incredible story of Madame Rosa and Momo.

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Director:

Edoardo Ponti

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32-year-old Marianna Palka learns she has Huntington’s Disease and will start showing symptoms from the age of 39 and must decide how to live her life in light of this diagnosis.

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Director:

Lucy Walker

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The Man Who Saved the World tells the gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov — a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track before it is too late.

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Director:

Peter Anthony

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Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.

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Directors:

Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev

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The Return of Tanya Tucker is a rousing exploration of an intergenerational friendship built on the unexpected joy of a perfectly timed creative collaboration that takes stock of the past while remaining vitally alive in the present and keeping an eye on the future.

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Director:

Kathlyn Horan

Right to Read

The Right to Read shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.

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Director:

Jenny Mackenzie

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The Square is the inspirational story of young people claiming their rights and struggling through multiple forces in the fight to create a society of conscience during the Egyptian Revolution of 2013.

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Director:

Jehane Noujaim

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In the mysterious and magical forests of Northern Italy, a passionate group of truffle hunters struggles to hold onto a beloved centuries-old tradition in the face of environmental change, shifting generational values, and their own mortality.

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Directors:

Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

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This is Home is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in America and struggling to find their footing.  As they learn to adapt to challenges, including the newly imposed travel ban, their strength and resilience are tested. It is a universal story, highlighted by humor and heartbreak, about what it’s like to start over, no matter the obstacles.

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Director:

Alexandra Shiva

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Traffic Stop depicts how a 26 year-old black school teacher in Austin, Texas is traumatized by a violent police encounter.

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Director:

Kate Davis

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The inspirational story of Megan McJames’ six-year journey to become the first skier to qualify for the Winter Olympic Games after being cut from the U.S. Ski Team. A female athlete battling against all odds, Megan’s story of grit, perseverance, and self-determination is sure to inspire viewers to follow their dreams in the face of adversity!

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Director:

Chris Kitchen

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Unrest follows the story of Jennifer Brea and her husband, Omar, as they live and struggle with her chronic disease, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME).

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Director:

Jennifer Brea

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We follow Dr. Lucinda Bateman as she shares her lifelong work studying, researching, and treating patients suffering with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and Long COVID. We will look at the ME/CFS vs. Long COVID mentality and the push to coalesce their efforts as the numbers of people affected are in the tens of millions. And look at her legacy and who will continue the cause upon her retirement.

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Director:

Brannon Richardson

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The Untitled Sam and Omar Project is a documentary feature that tells the poignant story of a father and son who build a relationship that transcends the boundaries of prison walls. It follows Sam Bader, a former film producer serving a 24-year prison sentence, and his estranged son, Omar, an aspiring actor and musician. Reconnecting over their mutual love for film, Sam and Omar begin working on a short film script together. In the process, they retrace their past and begin to heal the estrangement that began with Sam’s prison sentence 14 years ago.

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Director:

Nadav Kurtz

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In the wake of the February 14, 2018’s school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the worst school shooting since Newtown, MSD students ignite the largest student movement since the 60s to address gun violence in America and demand change.

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As Corey grows increasingly uncomfortable with his gender identity, he and his girlfriend Mia struggle to redefine their relationship.

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Directors:

Beck Kitsis & Chris McNabb

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Inspired by The Rolling Stone article written by award-winning investigative journalist Paul Solotaroff, Vanish Mode takes a look at the fentanyl episodic, it’s past, present, and future and the lives affected.

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Director:

Steven Cantor

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Viktor, a young deaf man in Kharkiv, watches warily during the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A fan of samurai films and raised on stories of war, he dreams of becoming a warrior but is repeatedly denied when he tries to enlist. Eager to find purpose, Viktor embarks on a quest to find his place in the midst of a war he cannot hear.

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Director:

Olivier Sarbil

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Waterproof is the story of a passionate group of individuals striving to waterproof their community at the beaches and pools of East Hampton, Montauk and Amagansett, New York.

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We Are Pat is a feature doc using camp and humor to explore the evolution of gender identity through the lens of the iconic 90s SNL sketch It’s Pat.

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Director:

Ro Haber

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A coming-of-age story about three brothers growing up in an unsteady home.

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Director:

Jeremiah Zagar

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At 100 years old, Dr. Howard Tucker has been recognized by the Guinness World Records as the “Oldest Practicing Doctor.” Dr. Tucker begins to slow down and grapple with aging for the first time. Told through the eyes of his grandson, What’s Next? follows their journey through a changing medical landscape as their relationship deepens and dynamics shift.

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Director:

Taylor Taglianetti

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While visiting his hometown of Milwaukee, father of three and aspiring attorney, Claude Motley, is shot in the face by 15-year-old Nathan, during a carjacking gone wrong. Two nights later, Nathan attempts to rob Victoria, who fires her gun in self-defense, partially paralyzing Nathan from the waist down. When Claude Got Shot follows three strangers tragically bound together by a weekend of gun violence, and a five-year journey to navigate recovery and forgiveness.

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Director:

Brad Lichtenstein

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A portrait of struggle, transition, self-discovery and the great outdoors for a young woman in Wyoming as she discovers herself as a backcountry archery hunter and embarks on a journey to impact the narrative around conservation, hunting, and rural politics.
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Director:

Joe Van Eeckhout

ROY COHN

A feature documentary profiling Roy Cohn and exploring his impact on American politics, society, and world politics today.

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Director:

Matt Tyrnauer

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Why Religion? is a feature-length documentary in production about the remarkable work and personal life of Elaine Pagels, one of the first female scholars of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The film follows Elaine’s academic triumphs as she prepares to release her newest book, Miracles and Wonder, The Historical Mystery of Jesus . As a historian, she challenges conventional notions of religion and allows us to reconsider how divinity and human nature are addressed in early Western religion.

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Director:

Jenny Mackenzie

Won't You Be My Neighbor

Won’t You Be My Neighbor looks at the impact of Mr. Rogers’ vision on generations of citizens and neighbors and seeks to explore and rediscover the lessons, ethics and legacy of Fred Rogers and to understand his fundamental philosophies of empathy, acceptance, and social responsibility.

 

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Director:

Morgan Neville

WRENCHED

The film Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation which will carry Edward Abbey’s legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to sustain the last bastion of the American wilderness – the spirit of the West.

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Director:

ML Lincoln

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Cain, Abel and the Cowgirl experiences two terrorist attacks in France through the lives of four children all raised in the same Paris suburb using archive footage, fictional reconstruction, and verité to tell the story.

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Director:

Dina Amer