Knock Down the House
When tragedy struck her family in the midst of the financial crisis, Bronx-born Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had to work double shifts in a restaurant to save her home from foreclosure. After losing a loved one to a preventable medical condition, Amy Vilela didn’t know what to do with the anger she felt about America’s broken health […]
Honeyland
Nestled in an isolated mountain region deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in a village without roads, electricity or running water. She’s the last in a long line of Macedonian wild beekeepers, eking out a living farming honey in small batches to be sold in the closest city – a […]
The Disappearance of My Mother
Benedetta wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she becomes fed up with all the roles that life has imposed […]
Advocate
Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel is a force that won’t be deterred. Having defended Palestinians against a host of criminal charges in Israeli courts for nearly five decades, she is a staunch supporter of compassion within the court system. Frequently subjected to harsh criticism in the press and in the public view, Tsemel remains optimistically […]
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary begins as a profile on a uniquely deranged magician who built a career out of shock and deception in the 1980s, but becomes the bizarre story about the unravelling of his documentarian. ’The Amazing Johnathan’, with his irreverent magic act, rose to popularity landing one of the longest residencies in Las […]
América
For Diego, life is easygoing, full of circus tricks and marijuana, while he works by day at a surf shop along a stretch of tourist beaches in Mexico. When his grandmother América falls from her bed, Diego’s father is jailed for elder neglect and Diego moves home to Colima to assume responsibility for her care […]
Minding the Gap
Free Solo
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
RBG
