The summer holidays have just begun and 11 year-old Skunk’s afternoons are full of day dreams and curious wanderings around her neighborhood – with the exception that she must regularly give herself injections to combat [...]
In Baby, It’s You, filmmaker Anne Makepeace takes us on an intimate journey through the Kafkaesque world of fertility clinics, into the home of lesbian parents, to Christmas among Utah polygamists and New England Puritans, [...]
On June 2, 1958, a white man named Richard Loving and his part-black, part-Cherokee fiancee Mildred Jeter traveled from Caroline County, VA, to Washington, D.C. to be married. At the time, interracial marriage was illegal [...]
Richard is a popular HS graduate with a bright future, lots of friends and a beautiful girlfriend. But when a drunken brawl after a house party ends with deadly consequences, his perfect life is changed [...]
A wealthy Manhattan family’s inability to cope with the suicide of their eldest daughter sends them into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and sexual taboos that threatens to destroy them. Exploring the dynamics a [...]
One of the most powerfully intimate films ever made about the final stages of life, The End began as a bold experiment. In November 2001, director Kirby Dick invited terminal patients and their families in [...]
When married Sarita discovers she can’t have children, for the first time in their lives Reena can do something her perfect sister Sarita can’t: get pregnant. Obsessed with helping her sister and winning her mom’s [...]
What happens when someone dies and there’s no record of any next of kin? Pursuit of Loneliness looks at that deeply personal and interpersonal question when an elderly woman dies anonymously in a county hospital. [...]
The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a hotel worker in India, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts [...]