The Chimney Sweeper
Markus—whose great-great-great-grandfather invented the nutcracker doll—makes nutcrackers for a living, as did each of his forefathers who descended from the great inventor. Markus discusses his life decisions.
The Dwellers
An intimate look at the lives of eight homeless and housing challenged congregants of The Dwelling as they participate in Authoring Action’s innovative approach to the creative writing process, which gives these writers the tools they need to tell their stories.
The Great Experiment
What holds a people together when the story they tell about themselves begins to fracture? The Great Experiment is an epic poem in documentary form—a mirror held to a nation at war with its own reflection, asking not who is right, but whether the experiment itself can survive.
The Hotline
The Hotline is a haunting, meditative look at opioid users connected through an anonymous phone line that acts as a fragile tether between life and death.
The Librarians
As part of our year-round screening partnership with ITVS Indie Lens, we are thrilled to bring our audiences this powerful documentary about librarians who unite to combat book banning and defend intellectual freedom on democracy’s frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond.
The Nest
Inside Bronx International High School, a sanctuary for New York’s most vulnerable youth, an immigrant community bands together to create a better future through mentorship, perseverance, and the power of hope.
The True Cost of Power
When the small town of Carrboro dares to sue Duke Energy Corp. for decades of climate deception, a damning pattern emerges of corporate power run amok.
To Hold a Mountain
In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.
Totality
A group of people, mostly women, witness a total eclipse of the sun on the roof of a former lodge of the Odds Fellows in Texas, a secret society that was the forerunner of the Syndicate, a women’s lodge in the 19th century under the name of the Rebekahs.
Trapped
Venus fly trap poachers face felony charges for trying to make a living, while huge real-estate developers go unpunished.
Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong
As America’s aging wastewater systems begin to fail, one plant and its motley crew of unlikely heroes do all they can to stay afloat.
Us Being Epic
Enmeshed within the panoramic history of photography, an epic memoir unfolds, pictorializing the cultural and political imprint of an American Chinese family and tracing their diasporic journey through time.
We Are, Because We Were
Inside the Winston-Salem African American Archive, two dedicated guardians work to preserve nearly two centuries of Black history to reconnect a community with stories that were forgotten, and some that were never told.
Women Laughing
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly draws and laughs with her colleagues as they demonstrate the power of women’s humor.
Wood Street
Two unhoused men turned community leaders—John and LaMonté—organize their neighbors in the face of displacement, addiction, and a failing social system.