Directed by Mark Cousins • Documentary • 2021 • 87 minutes

On the day before an operation to save his eyesight, filmmaker Mark Cousins explores what looking means to him, and the role our visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives. In a deeply personal meditation on the power...

Directed by Dario Doria • Animation • 2020 • 69 minutes

A film as necessary as it is beautiful, Vicenta explores the struggle for the right to a legal, safe, and free abortion.

Through small clay figurines and live-action news clips, the documentary narrates the real human rights story of Vicen...

Directed by Rivkah Beth Medow, Brad Marshland • Documentary • 2019 • 57 minutes

Allergies, obesity, asthma, diabetes, auto-immune and intestinal disorders are all on the rise, with the incidence of some diseases doubling every ten years. New research points to changes in the ecosystem of microbe...

Directed by Shelley Lee Davies & Or Shlomi • Documentary • 2011 • 72 minutes

Where have we gone wrong? Why has the death rate from heart disease and cancer exploded in recent times? Why are the ice caps melting, the oceans dying and the forests being cut down as we produce the food necessary to ...

Directed by Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn • Documentary • With Ava Breuer, Faith Quinn, Julia Weinberg • 2023 • 80 minutes

A college student searches for answers and justice after discovering deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.

Directed by Julie Bertuccelli • Documentary • 2016 • 85 minutes

Despite being nearly 30, Helene still looks like a teenager. She writes powerful, physical texts with a caustic humour. As she herself says, she was part of a 'miscalibrated batch that doesn't fit in anywhere.' A visionary author, t...

Directed by Daniel Hymanson • Documentary • With Jackie Seiden, Don Seiden • 2020 • 71 minutes

Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is consta...

Directed by Karina Epperlein • Documentary • 2006 • 22 minutes

A heroic journey of transformation and healing, Phoenix Dance challenges our expectations of what it means to be 'disabled.' In March, 2001, renowned dancer Homer Avila discovered that the pain in his hip was cancer. A month later, h...

Directed by Marie Ashton • Drama • With Sigrid Wurschmidt, Tom Dahlgren, Susan Lynch • 1989 • 14 minutes

This short dramatic film brings to life the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman story of the same name, which has become an important addition to American literature course curricula. Set in the...

Directed by Michael T Workman  • Documentary • 2022 • 19 minutes

After Tim’s work-related stroke leads to troubling health complications, his son Michael returns home to Montana. As they spend the most time together since Michael’s childhood, they reckon with the past that haunts Tim.

Meanti...

Directed by Suzanne Osten • Drama • With Esther Quigley, Maria Sundbom Lörelius • 2016 • 0 minutes

Siri, a single and psychotic mother, locks herself and her daughter Ti in their apartment where Siri’s demons are in charge. Ti can neither see nor hear the demons that have clearly taken control o...

Directed by Brad Lichtenstein • Documentary • With Claudaire Motley, Victoria Davison, Nathan King • 2021 • 94 minutes

This unscripted feature follows five years in the life of Claude Motley as he tries to recover mentally and physically from being shot in the face by carjacker Nathan King, a 15...

Directed by Dario Guerrero • Documentary • 2022 • 60 minutes

Weaving together footage from over a quarter of a century, Rocío follows the family of undocumented Mexican immigrant and Harvard University student Dario Guerrero as they struggle to stay together in the face of his mother's terminal ...

Directed by Claudio Capanna • Documentary • 2016 • 74 minutes

Twins Eden and Léandro were born prematurely. Once out of the belly of their mother, they are propelled into the hostile and worrying world of the hospital. The familiy lives to the rhythm of the twins, caught between the hope for imp...

Directed by Visa Koiso-Kanttila • Documentary • 2004 • 70 minutes

How can you be a good father? How often and to what extent do we repeat the behavioral patterns of our fathers; can we change or break these patterns or is repeating them inescapable, and how many generations is needed for change ...

Directed by Maasja OomsIngrid Wender • Documentary • 2011 • 59 minutes

Getting a complete overview of all the important moments in your life in a single moment; experiencing an indescribable lightness and getting a complete overview of all the important moments in your life in a single moment; e...

Directed by Sabrina Avilés • Documentary • 2022 • 30 minutes

In spring 2020, a global pandemic sent the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts, spiraling into chaos. Chelsea’s frontline workers risked their lives to help others, while its essential workers’ incomes dropped to zero overnight. Hundreds of...

Directed by Alexander Kuznetsov • Documentary • 2016 • 80 minutes

In Sibera, Russia, 18-year-old girls Julia, Ina, Olga and Katia are transferred directly from orphanages to neuropsychiatric institutions and are deprived of their rights as citizens: no freedom, no work, and no family. On the bas...

Directed by Olivia Luengas • Documentary • 2020 • 88 minutes

When Liliana was three years old, she suffered from viral encephalitis. As a consequence, she began to experience borderline personality disorder years later. Along with her family, she devotes herself to managing and coping with emoti...

Directed by Silvana Ceschi • Documentary • With Jesús Jiménez Escobar, Daniel Jiménez Krause • 2008 • 76 minutes

This tells the incredible story of Monika Krause, a former East German citizen, who became Fidel Castro's Sexual Education Minister. After 20 years in Cuba, Krause set the Cuban sexua...

Directed by Elizabeth Horn • Documentary • 2020 • 67 minutes

In Our Own Hands: How Patients Are Reinventing Medicine opens with an urgent question posed by desperate patients and their families: can new technologies help us treat and prevent the most alarming and perhaps understated health threa...

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...