Asia

An Open Door: Jewish Rescue in the Philippines

An Open Door is a feature-length documentary on the uplifting story of how a small Asian nation was able to save over 1,300 Jews as they fled...

Badass Beauty Queen

The story behind Miss World contestant Anastasia Lin using her most powerful weapon, her beauty to stand up to an oppressive regime.

Chau, Beyond the Lines

Chau, a teenager living in a Vietnamese care center for kids disabled by Agent Orange, struggles with the reality of his dream to become an artist....

Daughters of Wisdom

In remote, rural Tibet, Buddhist nuns live as nomadic subsistence farmers and herders as they struggle to eat and survive. The nuns of Kala...

Family Inc.

When filmmaker Emily Ting was asked by her father to return to Asia and take over the family business, she didnâ€™t exactly know how to...

Hippie Masala

In the 1960s and 1970s thousands of hippies journeyed East in the search for enlightenment, free drugs or a 'pure' life. Indian peasants assumed...

My Brothers and Sisters in the North

Sung-Hyung Cho was the first South Korean director allowed to film in North Korea, while accompanying residents during their everyday routines......

North Korea: A Day in the Life

In this verite documentary the family of Hong Sun Hui, a female worker in a textile factory, takes us through an ordinary day in the country...

Persona Non Grata

Against orders, a Japanese diplomat issued visas to 6,000 Jewish refugees during WWII.

Resilience

Resilience follows a Korean birth mother and her American son as they reunite and attempt to build a relationship after 30 years apart.

Sugihara Survivors: Jewish and Japanese, Past and Present

The little known story of a Japanese diplomat who issued 2,139 visas and saved thousands of lives from the Holocaust.

Transit

Transit 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.

What Remains of Us

Kalsang Dolma, a young Tibetan refugee in Quebec, crosses the Himalayas. Into the largest prison in the world, she carries a video message recorded...