The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 triggered a tsunami, nuclear meltdown and mass evacuations in Fukushima Prefecture. Today, as part of a Government push to encourage resettlement, local hunters have been enlisted to dispose of radiated Wild Boars that now roam the abandoned streets and buildings.
Fighting the law, rogue managers and bad boyfriends, on the peripheries of Pakistani society three women risk everything to make a living dancing on stage.
Welcome to the world of Sakawa where voodoo, e-waste, and internet scamming intersect in Ghana as con artists cheat Westerners to escape poverty.
Rapper Yung Lean was on top of the world, but behind the scenes he struggled with fame, drug addiction, and mental health issues. This is his coming-of-age story told with unparalleled access on his road to recovery.
The story of a radical movement that sought to end heroin addiction in communities of color with acupuncture, led by Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the step father of Tupac.
Religion. Cults. Aliens. Follow Raelians from Burkina Faso to Japan as we meet the charismatic Frenchman who is the leader of their faith — the world’s largest UFO religion.
An intensely cinematic portrait of male friendship and mentorhood. In Newark, NJ a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer brings two young men under his wing to teach them how to live better lives
An intimate and darkly comedic look at what it takes to be Musa Hadid, the beloved Mayor of Ramallah, during the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Donut King tells the unlikely story of a Cambodian refugee arriving in America in 1975 and building a multi-million-dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, the donut.
A fiercely political, unapologetically queer artist, David Wojnarowicz was especially critical of mainstream indifference to AIDS, the epidemic that would take his life at age 37. Exclusive access to his breathtaking body of work – including paintings, journals, and films – reveals how Wojnarowicz emptied his life into his art and activism. Rediscovered answering machine tape recordings and intimate recollections from Fran Lebowitz, Gracie Mansion, Peter Hujar, and other friends and family help present a stirring portrait of this fiercely political, unapologetically queer artist.
The final feasts of death row inmates serve as the entrée to a salivating investigation of capital punishment.
How to Kill a Cloud is a documentary of a Finnish female scientist trying to create rain in the United Arab Emirates desert. Can ambition be measured in rain?
Faceless is an intimate portrayal of four young protestors in Hong Kong struggling to protect their freedom and way of life under the shadow of authoritarianism. Following characters simply known as the Daughter, the Believer, the Student and the Artist, the film documents the stories of the individuals whose lives are upended as protests against a controversial extradition bill engulf Hong Kong.
In the mid-80's the Swedish mining giant Boliden dumped 20000 tonnes of hazardous waste in Arica in Northern Chile. Thousands of 'Ariqueños' were affected with cancers and other serious illness. Now a group of survivors are seeking justice.
Houston, Texas. A city which has seen Beyoncé, Chamillionaire and DJ Screw rise from its ashes – though it is never far from chaos.
The Bubble examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community. Leisurely retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine, however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as viewers may imagine.
A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence in a Salvadoran evangelical prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay.
A Russian scientist – part genius, part madman, a vanished ice age ecosystem, a climatic time bomb, and a crazy plan to save the world.
