DocuDay LA

Composed of intimate moments of a community in Alabama’s Black Belt, Hale County This Morning, This Evening offers an emotive impression of the Historic South. Daniel Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Quincy Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son. RaMell Ross' film trumpets the beauty of life and consequences of race, while existing as a testament to dreaming. (76 minutes)

At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now. (97 minutes)

End Game: End Game weaves together the stories of two San Francisco Bay Area medical facilities working on the cutting edge of life and death. For most people, the words "hospice" and "palliative care" are code words for giving up, but this group of caregivers are dedicated to helping terminally ill patients and their loved ones face end of life decisions with grace. (40 minutes)

Period. End of Sentence: In a village outside Delhi, India, women lead a revolution. For generations, these women didn’t have access to pads. But when a sanitary pad machine is installed in the village, they learn to manufacture their own pads. Their flight is partly enabled by high-school girls in California, who raised the initial money for the machine and created a non-profit called "The Pad Project." (26 minutes)

The Academy Award-nominated film FREE SOLO, from award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned filmmaker, photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, follows free soloist climber Alex Honnold as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock ... the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park … without a rope. (100 minutes)

Black Sheep: Everything changed for Cornelius Walker when his mother, scared for her son’s safety, moved their family out of London. Cornelius suddenly found himself living on a white estate run by racists. Cornelius decided to become more like the people who hated him. As the violence and racism continued, Cornelius struggled to marry his real identity with the one he'd acquired. (27 minutes)

Lifeboat: Volunteers from a German non-profit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pull refugees from sinking rafts pushing off from Libya in the middle of the night. LIFEBOAT puts a human face on one of the world’s greatest contemporary, global crises and provides a spark of hope surrounding how civil society can intervene in the refugee crisis in a meaningful way. (40 minutes)

A Night at the Garden: "In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York's Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism -- an event largely forgotten from American history. A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN, made entirely from archival footage filmed that night, transports audiences to this chilling gathering and shines a light on the power of demagoguery and anti-Semitism in the United States." (7 minutes)

Compiling over 12 years of footage shot in his hometown of Rockford, IL, in MINDING THE GAP, Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends’ turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity. Liu weaves a story of generational forgiveness while exploring the precarious gap between childhood and adulthood. (100 minutes)

Talal Derki's Of Fathers and Sons takes him back to Syria where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. (99 minutes)