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"I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm pretty good at running away, and this is my escape!" This is how Karina Hollekim describes her dedication...
Read moreFour women revisit the moment that changed their lives forever in the wake of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre.
Read moreDespite controversy and threats, Muslim singer/songwriter turned spiritual leader Ani Zonneveld takes a stand for justice through activism.
Read moreThis is a story of six men and women who established in the 70s a Jewish-Palestinian Marxist movement named "The Workers Alliance" and attempted...
Read moreThe story behind Miss World contestant Anastasia Lin using her most powerful weapon, her beauty to stand up to an oppressive regime.
Read moreBorn Again is a documentary by and about one woman’s 30-year search to come to terms with her true sexual identity while growing up in...
Read moreIna Pinkney is a Chicago legend of the tastiest kind. Known around town as the “Breakfast Queenâ€, she has been feeding Chicagoans...
Read moreFor ten years, Ann Murray Paige covered the news--but for the biggest story of her life she turned the camera on herself. When Murray-Paige,...
Read moreThe incredible story of the courageous women who for years stood at the checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank to safeguard human rights....
Read moreDamned to Heaven documents the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist religious sect on the Utah/Arizona border headed by Warren...
Read moreIn remote, rural Tibet, Buddhist nuns live as nomadic subsistence farmers and herders as they struggle to eat and survive. The nuns of Kala...
Read moreNo Jewish divorce is complete without the man literally giving the woman her freedom back. The film follows several such ‘chained’ women...
Read moreThis documentary will detail the intimate psychological journey of Norma Jeane Baker, calling on never-before-interviewed relatives and experts...
Read moreTHE EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN chronicles the last three months of Wanda Jean Allen's life, which culminated in her death by lethal injection on...
Read moreWhen filmmaker Emily Ting was asked by her father to return to Asia and take over the family business, she didn’t exactly know how to...
Read moreDaniela and Yotam, a young loving couple, arrive excitedly at the hospital, expecting the birth of their twin daughters. As the big moment arrives,...
Read moreIn this lyrical and moving documentary, four intersex women tell their stories with astonishing bravery and candour. Set against beautiful yet...
Read moreXAVIERA HOLLANDER, "THE HAPPY HOOKER": PORTRAIT OF A SEXUAL REVOLUTIONARY is about one of the world's most important sexual icons. Through interviews...
Read moreThe blood, sweat and tears that go into every bottle of wine.
Read moreAfter spending the first ten years of her life in a Catholic orphanage, the young and fiery Awet excitedly learns that she is soon to be reunited...
Read moreSix year old Krisel is a blind girl of Filipino origin. Born in the back room of a house in Israel, she was deserted by her birth mother. Together...
Read moreMeet Katie Lee, the 96-year-old activist who opposed the Glen Canyon Dam and has forever been its immutable warrior in this uplifting short.
Read moreA fascinating drama about a fascinating woman, skilled politician and resolute fighter for women's rights!
Read moreOne mother's search to find out why privileged children are the most unhappy leads her on a quest for understanding with her fifteen-year-old...
Read moreA former high-flying New York socialite turned Erin Brockovich-style campaigner is in a race against time to save her son’s life.
Read moreIn 1938 the Blumenthals began their journey to America as refugees from Nazi Germany. Just before departing from Rotterdam, the Germans invaded...
Read moreEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into the Jewish ghetto. Knowing she would become a...
Read moreThis documentary is about the importance of sisterhood and sports to overcome disease and despair. The “Pink Lionesses” live life to its...
Read moreProjecting the Body is an intimate look at Stephen Cummins’ life and career, bringing together his film and photographic work, rare home...
Read moreCharlotte Glynn moves home to chronicle her sister Rachel's last year in school. Rachel is developmentally disabled and Rachel Is documents the...
Read moreThis film reveals the feisty feminist icon Alice Shalvi at 90, looking back, but also forward, with contagious joy and unwavering honesty.
Read moreAn intimate portrait of surprisingly different women in a war stricken land.
Read moreNever too late to live your dream.
Read moreResilience follows a Korean birth mother and her American son as they reunite and attempt to build a relationship after 30 years apart.
Read moreHow do you build your identity when your past has been stripped away?
Read moreShe risks everything in order to save her daughter's life.
Read moreIn 1969, weary of the harsh way of life in the U.S. ghettos and motivated by a sense of lack of origin, a number of African-Americans moved to......
Read moreDirected, produced, and scored by Odette Springer, the film marks Springer's career in the B-movie industry and explores the conflicts and complexities...
Read moreA look at the do-it-yourself world of underground music from the perspective of those who make it happen. Inspired by a quote from late director...
Read moreAn Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary 2000, World premiere at Sundance 1999, SPEAKING IN STRINGS is a rhythmic, often humorous film about...
Read more1943: Holland is under Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party - a 20-year-old beauty...
Read moreThe story of the famed Lower East Side smoked fish emporium Russ & Daughters and the Jewish immigrant family who has run it for 100 years and...
Read moreA Jewish teenager and an injured soldier join a doomed plot to kill Hitler.
Read more"Bob Dylan may be the Shakespeare of our time," says BJ Rolfzen, Dylan's high school English teacher. Even Shakespeare had parents and a home...
Read moreWe are always told that love lasts forever like in children’s fairy tales, but the reality is that people change and relationships expire....
Read moreTransit examines what it means to be a family and what it means to be a stranger, within one's home and in a foreign land.
Read moreThis is the story of a promising young rider from San Diego who held the Israeli high jump record for 20 years.
Read moreSwedish Journalist and former refugee, Khazar Fatemi, returns to her childhood country of Afghanistan for the first time in 20 years.
Read moreTwo women's lives change when Zuhara, on her way to her sister's wedding even though she's estranged from her Orthodox family, picks up Neriman,...
Read moreWHY WE WAX is a hilarious look at modern culture’s obsession with hair removal. With a light touch, through countless interviews, including...
Read moreEtel, 9 years old, experiences her first period in a traditional Jewish family.
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