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Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the...

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Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history,...

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Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their...

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Cast: Amy Ackerman

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and...

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Cast: Idris Brewster

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his...

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An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.

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Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at...

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Cast: Michael York

When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become...

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Cast: Deloris 'Nunu' Hogan

Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents' emigration from...

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The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...

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A turbulent newsroom drama that intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiraling world of...

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Cast: Ravish Kumar

The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm...

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Cast: Jennifer Caroll Foy

Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored...

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Cast: Assia Boundaoui

When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s...

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For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease....

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Cast: Ryan Green

The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...

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Cast: Fannie Lou Hamer