In 1999, 9-year-old Emmanuel Sanford-Durant and his Washington, D.C., family began to film their daily lives in America's most dangerous…
Policing/Criminal Justice
Brian Schodorf
Much is said about the violence that plagues Chicago’s hyper-segregated communities. But what is known about the systems that created them, the…
Chinonye Chukwu
In Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “Clemency,” years of carrying out death-row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams (…
A wide-ranging program of films that explore science, technology, and cyberspace.
Kevin McKiernan
“From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock” tells the intertwined stories of Willard Carlson, a Yurok Indian fisherman who fought at Wounded Knee, S.D.,…
Jesús del Cerro
In 1988 — before the fall of the Iron Curtain — Andrei and his father, Vasile, live in Romania, whose impoverished citizens suffer under the…
Destin Daniel Cretton
A powerful and thought-provoking true story, "Just Mercy" follows young civil-rights attorney Bryan Stevenson (“Black Panther’s” Michael B. Jordan…
Lisa Rhoden Boyd
In “The Voice Within,” inmates at the women’s prison in Vandalia, Mo., participate in a two-week Prison Performing Arts (PPA) workshop and take an…
Bernard Attal
In 2014, Geovane, a young man from a poor neighborhood in Brazil, was arrested by the military police and never seen again. Assisted by the local…
Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan's much-lauded short documentary (U.S., 2019, 28 min.) — which debuted at Tribeca and is one of the first films from…
Ben Scholle
In July 2002, Johnny Johnson was arrested and charged with the abduction and murder of 6-year-old Cassandra Williamson in Valley Park, Mo., and…
Roberto Minervini
In the summer of 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African-American men sends shock waves throughout the country. In New Orleans,…