Directed by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe • Documentary • 1997 • 56 minutes

AFFLUENZA is a groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease—caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism—that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment....

Directed by Meghan Shea, Michael Rogers • Documentary • 2020 • 87 minutes

How I Live' chronicles the journeys of four children with cancer, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Egypt and Myanmar, as they and their families confront the realities of accessing care and treatment.

Following their journeys f...

Directed by Léa Fehner • Drama • 2024 • 100 minutes

After five years of dedicated learning in the noble profession of midwifery – often hailed as “the most beautiful job in the world” – Louise (Héloïse Janjaud) and Sofia (Khadija Kouyaté) are embarking on their professional journey, bracing them...

Directed by Joanna Rudnick • Documentary • With Rick Guidotti • 2014 • 31 minutes

ON BEAUTY is the latest film from award-winning filmmaker Joanna Rudnick and Chicago’s Kartemquin Films. The film looks at beauty through the lens of fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who highlights vibrant indiv...

Directed by Joanna Rudnick • Documentary • With Joanna Rudnick • 2008 • 83 minutes

In the Family is a documentary film about predicting breast and ovarian cancer, the consequences of knowing, and the women who live with the risk. Beginning with her story of testing positive for the familial brea...

Directed by Benoit Rossel, Dorothée Frénot • Documentary • 2021 • 85 minutes

Diabetes will affect one adult in 10 by 2040. It is ruining lives and weighing heavily on public finances. The disease is still not being treated properly. A whole system has gone off track because patients either take ...

Directed by Manfred Becker • Documentary • 2021 • 78 minutes

THE DIVIDED BRAIN is a mind-altering odyssey about one man's quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains, and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental and social ...

Directed by Anna Moot-Levin, Laura Green • Documentary • 2019 • 82 minutes

Set against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, THE PROVIDERS follows three healthcare providers in northern New Mexico. They work at El Centro, a group of safety-net clinics that ...

Directed by Anne Georget • Documentary • 2016 • 82 minutes

For more than six decades, doctors, nutritionists, and public health officials have been waging a war against high cholesterol in an effort to fight heart disease. It’s a war that has seen the demonization of saturated fats, the rise and...

Directed by Charles Burnett and Daniel Loewenthal • Documentary • 2018 • 56 minutes

POWER TO HEAL tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was u...

Directed by Louise Detlefsen • Documentary • 2021 • 94 minutes

At the small retirement home Dagmarsminde, the founding nurse May Bjerre Eiby has no interest in specific dementia diagnoses or medicine, since neither is improving the quality of life for the 11 residents. Instead, May and her staff...

Directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel • Documentary • 1973 • 89 minutes

Shot in Paris in 1973, this feminist film on the fight for abortion rights was banned as soon it was released. A large-scale game of hide-and-seek ensued, as activists created an underground distribution network,...

Directed by Kyle Henry • Documentary • With Kyle Henry, Elaine Henry, Richard Henry • 2024 • 86 minutes

In the final months of his mother Elaine’s late-stage dementia, as a pandemic rages across the globe, filmmaker Kyle Henry time travels via his family archive and his own memories to heal past...

Directed by Danny Abel • Documentary • With Laureen Wanguba, Evelyn Nyaaga, Florence Kabuga • 2024 • 16 minutes

Rollout is a journey alongside residents of a tight-knit Kenyan community, as they face mounting pressure from a government they don’t trust, to get a Covid-19 vaccine they fear may ca...

Directed by Aicha Macky • Documentary • 2016 • 52 minutes

Married but childless, Aicha finds herself in a situation that is totally “out of the ordinary” in her country, Niger. Just like everywhere else in the world today, Niger also experiences problems with infertility.

Relying on her pers...

Directed by Cheryl Green and Cynthia Lopez • Documentary • With Dani Sanderson, Kris Haas, Brandon Scarth • 2016 • 86 minutes

Who Am I To Stop It is a documentary about the traumatic brain injury community made by a filmmaker with disabilities from brain injury. It follows three artists as they ...

Directed by Gabriela Chaim Tumax • Documentary • 2022 • 28 minutes

Four Paths to Dignity profiles the pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives. The midwives confront challenges, as they battle racism and a health establishment that strives to prevent them from providing care that is culturally...

Directed by Maria Finitzo • Documentary • 2020 • 118 minutes

THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE is a provocative new film helping to normalize dialogue about female sexuality. The film follows diverse, intergenerational stories of women who are shattering lies about female sexual desire, bodies and power. Ar...

Directed by Mary Sue Connolly • Documentary • With Breanne McUlty, Kelly Beazley • 2019 • 76 minutes

The troubling turmoil of the deadly American opioid crisis unfolds in the small rural town of Petersburg, West Virginia, the state hardest hit by this epidemic. Through interviews with former dru...

Directed by Debra Granik • Documentary • 2016 • 102 minutes

From Debra Granik, director of the Oscar-nominated 'Winter's Bone', comes this portrait of a motorcycle-riding, freedom-loving, Vietnam veteran cast in the mold of an outlaw biker. But there's much more to burly, bearded Ronnie 'Stray D...

Directed by Thomas Lilti • Drama • With Vincent Lacoste, Jacques Gamblin, Reda Kateb • 2015 • 101 minutes

HIPPOCRATES: DIARY OF A FRENCH DOCTOR is a darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern, Benjamin, played by Vincent Lacoste (Eden), who begins his in...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • With Dr. Kimberly Looney, Anonymous Driver • 12 minutes

In the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade, “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. We listen to an ob...

Directed by Coline Grando • Documentary • 2017 • 58 minutes

"I've always liked to be in charge. Suddenly, I wasn’t in charge at all."

The film starts with an empty chair and a simple, monochromatic background. Over the next hour, five men ranging in age from their twenties to fifties sit in the...

Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2014 • 88 minutes

"Rocks In My Pockets" is a story of mystery and redemption. The film is based on true events involving five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and suicide. It raises questions of how much...