Spotlight: Global Documentaries

Invisible Beauty

Bethann Hardison is the fashion icon and cultural force you didn’t realize you already revered. As one of the first Black supermodels and an outspoken…
Joan Baez I Am a Noise

In her 20s, Joan Baez was the undisputed queen of folk music, one of the first people to recognize Bob Dylan’s talent and record his…
Hummingbirds

During a stifling summer in Laredo, Texas, two adolescents stargaze from a car’s rooftop, share worries that they could be deported, and fret over their…
Confessions of a Good Samaritan

Am I a good person? What does it mean to be a good person anyway? These are questions at the heart of what might be…
Being Mary Tyler Moore

“Who can turn the world on with her smile?” Those theme-song words describing Mary Richards, the TV news producer who broke sitcom ground as a…
The Tuba Thieves

It’s true that a rash of tuba thefts have plagued Los Angeles high schools, but the mystery behind the loss of the oompah instruments is…
Mel Novikoff Award: Firelight Media + “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”

The 2023 Mel Novikoff Award celebrates Firelight Media, a nonprofit that supports filmmakers of color. Join us a for a conversation with founders Stanley Nelson…
The Deepest Breath

Italian Alessia Zecchini is one of the best freedivers in the world, engaging in a breathtaking and perilous sport in which incredible athletes dive without…
La Bonga

With Colombia’s right-wing paramilitary forces closing in, the Afro-Colombian inhabitants of La Bonga fled their farming community, leaving the jungle to reclaim it. Sebastian Pinzón…
Mariupolis 2

Seeds of hope thrive amidst great tragedy in this visually remarkable documentary. Shot in March 2022, only weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the…
Community Screening: Land of Gold

Soprano Julia Bullock mesmerizes in this entrancing documentary that brings to vivid life John Adams’ and Peter Sellars’ opera Girls of the Golden West and…
The Janes

Timely and fascinating, this examination of a 1960s-era underground abortion collective is a meditation on national anxieties and a capsule of unsung heroes.