Ten years after her acclaimed 2016 documentary 13th, Ava DuVernay views the long historical arc from Jim Crow to Donald Trump through the lens of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

A well-known Algerian journalist sees the jacaranda trees of Algiers as an encouragement to keep the imagination alive in a country where that is not always easy for intellectuals. His son filmed this loving tribute.

The artistic career of Czech rock icon Bára Basiková, along with her turbulent life as a mother and a woman in show business, unfolds against the backdrop of a changing Czech Republic in an intimate film project spanning several decades.

With patience and precision, filmmaker Jan van IJken captured the embryonic development of a chick. The result is a film as astonishing as it is forthright about the emergence and fragility of life.

The wooden sailing yachts built at Brooklin Boat Yard are works of pure craftsmanship. This warm portrait of a companionable boatyard on the coast of Maine draws you into the life in and around the harbor.

When 16-year-old Chris goes missing near Warsaw, his father Daniel embarks on an all-consuming search along the Vistula River. This immersive film follows him closely as he combs the river, suspended between hope and fear.

An exuberant wedding in France, a ritual for the dead in Guinea-Bissau: what do these two worlds have to do with each other? Everything, as we come to understand through Gloria and her daughter Nour in this vibrant evocation of the flow of life.

How should prisoners be treated? And to what extent does reality correspond to what you are taught at school? Trainees at the Administration Pénitentiaire school in France learn more and more about the moral minefield of their work.

Iran’s history is marked by bloody invasive wars and constant internal repression. The violence goes hand in hand with an endless war of imagery, one the regime understands all too well.

Actors recreate the experiences of former members of the Danish Faderhuset cult. Former members appear on-screen as advisers, sharing their experiences of the intimidation and manipulation they suffered at the hands of cult leaders.

This exploration of the meaning of flamenco connects the expressive Spanish dance and music form with the avant-garde and politics, modernity and emotion—all captured in a whirling collage of archival material.

At a boarding school for blind and partially sighted teenagers in Paris, students use their own video footage to share remarkably upbeat perspectives on their disability. Abstract, sometimes disorientating images provide a moving testament to the power of our senses.

Apart from a half-hearted cultural boycott, the Iranian opposition against the Shah was left to fend for itself. This film essay draws on feature films, news footage, and poetry to interweave international, national, and personal histories.

The Palestinian filmmaker visits his family home, where a television report shows relief workers in Gaza, where some of his relatives live. He records the almost unimaginable scenes of a devastated society and the survival of its people.

Based on a Japanese writer’s text and local testimonies, using hypnotic imagery and an eerie soundscape, experimental Brazilian filmmaker Ana Vaz attempts to capture the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

After water and concrete, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky now turns his camera to wood, from the dying pine forests in the Alps to the industrial cultivation of millions of Christmas trees every year.

Scenes of protests being brutally suppressed and testimonies from people persecuted for political reasons paint a compelling picture of the ruthlessness with which Aleksandr Lukashenko’s dictatorial regime in Belarus suppresses dissent.

French-Chilean filmmaker, writer, and political activist Carmen Castillo breaks a 50-year silence surrounding the political and personal events that profoundly shaped her life and that of her children.

Filmmaker and revolutionary Masao Adachi, now in his eighties, is trying to get his passport back. He has the photo taken at the nostalgic studio of the elderly widow Ikuyo Shida. Two worlds meet without preconceptions in an elegant double portrait.

This monumental portrait plunges you into the lives of a group of passionate young women who rank among Russia’s last independent journalists. They may now have fled the country, but no one can silence them.

This posthumous masterpiece by William Greaves, completed by his son David, captures a unique gathering at Duke Ellington’s home in 1972. It is a rare privilege to be present as the surviving icons of the Harlem Renaissance converse, laugh, and reminisce.

Shepherds belonging to a small group of nomadic Berbers in a desert in central Morocco are forced to give up their way of life to make way for a vast sustainable energy park. To them, it all feels reminiscent of earlier colonial practices.

At a once-sparkling resort, a conference is being held against a universal enemy: death. Gurus preach, snake oil salesmen sell false promises. A fascinating meditation on the pursuit of immortality, from the director of The Act of Killing.

Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi enters into dialogue with the militant films made by Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab (1948–2019) in countries including Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran. In them, he rediscovers the hope he thought he had lost.

To protest American interference in South America, Camilo Restrepo stole and re-edited a 1961 promotional film in which three Chevrolets take on the impenetrable rainforest of the Darién Gap. Today, however, most of the traffic moves north.

Chilling account of the show of force by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis. Rachel Lauren Mueller and acclaimed filmmaker Laura Poitras capture residents' defiance.

How do you write a eulogy for a melted glacier? An Icelandic writer explores his family’s love of glaciers and the memory of his grandparents and the natural phenomena that connected them.

Besides being a tireless fighter against apartheid, Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) was a joker and family man with an unshakeable belief in forgiveness. Sam Pollard paints an intensely human portrait of a giant of 20th-century history.

Oscar winner Barbara Kopple follows delivery and warehouse workers at companies like UPS and Amazon, as they fight for better pay and decent working conditions in America’s union stronghold, New York.

Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi and his Palestinian friend Ali Al-Azhari visit what remains of Ali’s birthplace, the village from which he was expelled during the Nakba in 1948. Melancholy and humor punctuate their walk through this highly charged landscape.