Authentic voices. Essential films.

A story of community, perseverance, and defiance of a deportation.

In 2032, two environmental refugees discover friendship in a world devastated by climate change.

Cuban troubador Silvio Rodriguez recounts his experience as a 1961 Literacy Campaign brigadista.

In a world gone crazy, a young woman discovers that her madness is a fierce and powerful gift that makes her more fully human.

Dedicated to the future memory of white supremacy

An instigator for social change, Krzysztof Wodiczko’s powerful public art interventions disrupt the valorization of state-sanctioned aggression and challenge our complacency towards war, xenophobia and displacement.

The college admissions frenzy at San Francisco’s iconic Lowell High School

Explores the myth and intersections with anti-Asian violence.

Inspiring Change for a Healthy Ocean

A four-century struggle to seek repair and atonement for slavery in the United States.

Inclusion Shouldn’t be a Lottery

A man's searches for beauty in a post-apocalyptic world.

An expedition into the polar night to discover how melting sea ice is leading to changes in underwater light that may be radically altering the Arctic Ecosystem.

A conversation between a decommissioned vessel and her shipbreakers.

Vigilantes, heroines, or criminals? Find out what really happened during the bloody labor revolt of 1878 on the island of Saint Croix.

Finding Freedom In Servitude

The film explores the complexities, repression, and criminalization of social movements fighting for land and ecological restitution in Eswatini (formally known as Swaziland), Mozambique, and Zambia.

Re-released for a new generation: the first film to document the klezmer music revival.

A woman’s quest to solve a family mystery reveals a forgotten humanitarian tragedy.