“The Cherán Way" captures the compelling story of Cherán, a P'urhépecha indigenous town in Mexico, rising against illegal logging to achieve self-determination and environmental revival.
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The Healing Journey
The Healing Journey is a docuseries that examines the role adverse childhood experiences plays in adult health, and what some are doing to heal.
This Is Not an Apple
The life of three Palestinian siblings in Norway is turned upside down by a knife attack, and they try to recover through an apple farming initiative
The Sound of Hope
A diplomat, a teacher, and a musician declare war on poverty, ignorance, and crime, using an unorthodox weapon: classical music education.
Healing Wounded Knee
How do we begin to heal national trauma? How does the heart navigate the terrain of forgiveness?
All of the Above
Students from different faiths come together in a World Religions class at a public high school in the Midwest.
Life in the Shadows
Years after K's classmates were massacred in his school, he records the lives of Machid, who attends the same school, and Khatima, who works in the cemetery where the dead students are buried.
Magic Town
For nearly 90 summers a tiny village in rural Michigan, dubbed “The Magic Capital of the World,” has attracted thousands of magicians for an annual magic convention.
Saving the City: Remaking the American Metropolis
Saving the City is a multi-part documentary series with related educational material highlighting successful and unsuccessful examples of urban development throughout the US and Canada so that we c
The Color Of Pain
Research shows that doctors are more likely to dismiss or trivialize the pain complaints of black women.
The Sewing Girl's Tale
The Sewing Girl’s Tale presents a gripping documentary recounting America’s first published rape trial.
Weed & Wine (Part II)
The 2020 feature WEED & WINE followed a year in the life of two farming families: one growing biodynamic grapes in France; the other growing organic cannabis in California.
Alien: American Dream Denied
Alien: American Dream Denied spotlights the emotional journey of high-skilled, documented immigrants as they seek permanence in a country that benefits from their talent, but denies them a home.
Beyond the Cliff: Navigating Autistic Adulthood
"Beyond the Cliff: Navigating Autistic Adulthood", a feature-length documentary, follows the stories of adults on the autism spectrum and explores the various challenges each face during their tran
Still Judy
Still Judy tells the life story of juggler Judy Finelli who played a significant role in the American New Circus Movement, and narrates the artistic relevance of San Francisco's Pickle Family Circu
The Sharp Edge of Peace
After decades of violence, the stakes at the Afghanistan peace talks are high for everyone. For women, they are immeasurable.
REFUGE
REFUGE is an award-winning feature-length documentary that follows a leader in a white nationalist hate group who finds healing from the people he once hated - a Muslim heart doctor and his town of
UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality
LOGLINE: UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality is searing expose of the affordable housing crisis in America told through the prism of one zip code's struggle with the growing housing divid
Within the Box
Eight decades after being smuggled out of Poland, a box of photographs sparks a filmmaker’s journey to confront his family’s past and the haunted silence that lingers in their present.
UNAFF
UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) is an international documentary film festival held in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and at Stanford University each year around the UN Da
KITÁ
Burgeoning young dancers, from The Juilliard School, leave their New York City lives to teach students in the Philippine Islands.
Martins Beach
When a popular beach spot is closed to the public by a Silicon Valley billionaire, one family vows to fight back to protect their cherished generational connection to the coast.
About Time
Two mothers fight for justice and accountability when their daughters are found dead in a California women's prison.
Happy Campers
Every summer, hard-working families escape their ordinary routines to live like kings in a scrappy seasonal trailer park.
Trouble Finds Me
Trelin and Alex are seniors at Free LA high school, a juvenile courthouse turned high school for students pushed out of Los Angeles’ public education system.
Pride & Honor
A veteran battling stage 4 cancer leads a historic lawsuit against the Department of Defense to restore pride and honor for themselves and other LGTBQI+ veterans before they die.
Hard Twist: Through the Lens of Barbara Van Cleve
The feature documentary BARBARA VAN CLEVE'S AMERICAN WEST recounts her family’s settling to Montana in the early 19th century, her youth on a working ranch and tourist destination as a young woman
Beyond Barriers | Sacred Earth
This is the urgent story of WATER: It speaks through Hopi and Navajo grassroots leaders, who strive to preserve what remains on their tribal lands in NE Arizona – after a coal-mining operation depl
Finding Má
A family shattered by the foster care & prison systems reunite to heal old wounds & rebuild their family, starting with finding their houseless mom.
Athenia's Last Voyage
At sunset on the first day of WWII the British passenger ship Athenia was bound for Canada in the North Atlantic, and nearly everyone aboard believed they had sailed beyond the reach of the newly d
First Quarterback
In a time when anti-Semitism is again raising its ugly head around the world, "The First Quarterback" looks back to an era of even greater intolerance, when an unlikely Jewish hero gave hope and pr
Haunted by Helen Liu Fong
Investigating the disappearance of visionary designer Helen Liu Fong from American design history, architect Mina Chow is haunted by her own fears of being forgotten.
The Women of Ukraine
The Women of Ukraine is a 90-minute documentary project that explores and celebrates the efforts and achievements of Ukrainian women who have dedicated their lives, often at great risk, to answerin
Hong Kong Documentary
Personal stories of the women fighting for Hong Kong’s freedom
and democracy against communsist China, who stormed the streets to demand justice.