Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

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When artist Maggie Barrett (75) breaks her femur, her husband Joel Meyerowitz (84), a world-famous photographer, becomes her caregiver. In the shadow of mortality, each with a long and dramatic life behind them, the hard truths of life together provoke in Maggie and Joel an attempt to find a shared inner-peace while there is still […]

Homegrown

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Homegrown is an unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other. Three right-wing activists—a newly politicized father-to-be in New Jersey, an Air Force veteran organizing conservatives in New York City, and a charismatic activist from Texas—crisscross the country in the summer of 2020, campaigning for Donald Trump and building a movement they hope will […]

Black Snow

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When residents of a remote Siberian coal mining city discover that an abandoned mine has caught fire, pushing toxic gas into their homes, they turn to homemaker-turned-journalist Natalia Zubkova for help. But after her news coverage of the coal fire goes viral, the government launches a massive effort to cover up the truth. In the […]

A Photographic Memory

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Thirty years after her mother’s death, photographer Rachel Elizabeth Seed discovers her mother’s work — more than 50 hours of interviews with the greatest photographers of the 20th Century, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Cornell Capa, Cecil Beaton, and Bruce Davidson. When Rachel threads in the audio reels and presses play, she hears […]

A New Kind of Wilderness

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On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Payne family seeks a wild and free existence. Maria and Nik, along with their four children Ulv, Falk, Freja, and Ronja are self sufficient, they practice home schooling and strive for a closely knit family dynamic in harmony with nature. However, when tragedy strikes the family, […]

Master of Light

CEH 2023 Nominee: Master of Light

George Anthony Morton is a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison for dealing drugs. While incarcerated, he nurtured his craft and unique artistic ability. Since his release, he is doing everything he can to defy society’s unlevel playing field and tackle the white-dominant art world. Now, he is on a journey back […]

Into the Ice

CEH 2023 Nominee: Into the Ice

Despite many years of research, we still do not know exactly how fast the Greenland ice sheet is melting. This is the question director Lars Henrik Ostenfeld hopes to answer when he set outs on an expedition with three of the world’s leading glaciologists. The journey will take them 180 metres into one of the […]

Hidden Letters

CEH 2023 Nominee: Hidden Letters

Two Chinese millennial women must save an ancient secret treasure from falling into the wrong hands, but don’t expect it will save them too.

Brotherhood

CEH 2023 Nominee: Brotherhood

Jabir, Usama and Useir are three young Bosnian brothers, born into a family of shepherds. They grew up in the shadow of their father, Ibrahim, a strict, radical Islamist preacher. When Ibrahim gets sentenced to two years in prison for war participation and terrorism, the three brothers are suddenly left on their own.

After Sherman

CEH 2023 Nominee: aAfter Sherman

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