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Finding Christa

Finding Christa

Finding Christa

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A Dream Is What You Wake Up From

A Dream Is What You Wake Up From

A Dream Is What You Wake Up From

A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role of Black families in American society.
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Suzanne, Suzanne

Suzanne, Suzanne

Suzanne, Suzanne

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In a Perfect World…

In a Perfect World…

In a Perfect World…

A documentary film about men raised by single mothers.
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Grandmother's Flower

Grandmother's Flower

Grandmother's Flower

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Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides

Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides

Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides

Three journalists trace their mothers’ tumultuous journey in new film about WWII Japanese war brides.
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A String of Pearls

A String of Pearls

A String of Pearls

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Homes Apart: Korea

Homes Apart: Korea

Homes Apart: Korea

When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart.
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NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina

NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina

NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina

NEGRITA—a Spanish term meaning “little Black girl”—is a personal and probing documentary exploring how anti-Blackness in American and Latino cultures shapes the identities of Afro-Latina women.
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North Korea: Beyond the DMZ

North Korea: Beyond the DMZ

North Korea: Beyond the DMZ

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Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California

Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California

Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California

INVISIBLE ROOTS is an intimate look at Afro-Mexicans living in Southern California as they discuss complex issues of racial, national and cultural identities.
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Fresh Seeds in The Big Apple

Fresh Seeds in The Big Apple

Fresh Seeds in The Big Apple

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Voces de Fillmore

Voces de Fillmore

Voces de Fillmore

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If You Could Walk In My Shoes

If You Could Walk In My Shoes

If You Could Walk In My Shoes

IF YOU COULD WALK IN MY SHOES documents the struggle of an Ecuadorian-American family as they transforms their lives from workers to business owners.
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Fuori/Outside

Fuori/Outside

Fuori/Outside

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Foster Care Film Series: Volume 1

Foster Care Film Series: Volume 1

Foster Care Film Series: Volume 1

In this award-winning collection, Charell, Ashley, and Camilla share their deeply personal stories about their experiences in foster care and how it impacted their lives.
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Chircales

Chircales

Chircales

This film portrays the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, documenting the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Chircales offers the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.
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Vintage: Families of Value

Vintage: Families of Value

Vintage: Families of Value

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Before David

Before David

Before David

A short film about pre-partum depression, its symptoms, and the difficulties it poses when a woman is going through extreme physical and emotional changes.
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Keep Saray Home

Keep Saray Home

Keep Saray Home

In the outskirts of Boston, three Southeast Asian families face the impending threat of deportation.
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Loving Each Other in the Shadows

Loving Each Other in the Shadows

Loving Each Other in the Shadows

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Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor

Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor

Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor

A street vendor, mother and activist from Guatemala makes $40 a day in New york City, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
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A Family Called Abrew

A Family Called Abrew

A Family Called Abrew

The Abrew family has been based in Scotland since the end of the 19th century and worked in Vaudeville, theater, and later, in film made throughout Europe where they faced racial discrimination and exoticization as performers for primarily white audiences.
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A Letter for My Grandson (Una Carta Para Mi Nieto/Ma qilqa allchijataki)

A Letter for My Grandson (Una Carta Para Mi Nieto/Ma qilqa allchijataki)

Aymara filmmaker Lourdes Rivas fears that her sole grandson will forget their Indigenous language and tradition.
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Silhouettes of people and animals against a sunset sky with plants.

Our Big House (Nuestra Casa Grande)

Our Big House (Nuestra Casa Grande)

In this animated short, a grandmother from the indigenous Guarayo community remembers her rural village and forest before the arrival of lumber companies that profit from the deforestation of the Amazons in Bolivia.
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The Keepsake

The Keepsake

The Keepsake

After living with relatives in fast-paced Lagos City, Nigeria, 14-year-old Amarachi returns to her home village to live with her mother Ikechi for the first time in eight years. When Ikechi learns Amarachi is pregnant due to rape, the pair begins an emotional journey to heal from their individual and collective traumas, save what is left of their estranged relationship, and learn to live as a family.
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Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

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Repatriation

Repatriation

Repatriation

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Mommy, What's Wrong?

Mommy, What's Wrong?

Mommy, What's Wrong?

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Inbetween

Inbetween

Inbetween

Experimental docudrama evokes Sri Lanka's colonial history and the experiences of the post-colonial subject in the diaspora.
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The Amerindians

The Amerindians

The Amerindians

In this documentary, filmmaker Tracy Assing makes a personal exploration of her roots as a member of the Santa Rosa Carib Community based in Arima.
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Living in Half Tones

Living in Half Tones

Living in Half Tones

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In the Name of our Coca Leaves a.k.a. In the Name of our Coca

In the Name of our Coca Leaves a.k.a. In the Name of our Coca

In the Name of our Coca Leaves a.k.a. In the Name of our Coca

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I'm Free Now, You Are Free

I'm Free Now, You Are Free

I'm Free Now, You Are Free

A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9.
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Her Uprooting Plants Her

Her Uprooting Plants Her

Her Uprooting Plants Her

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E Minha Cara a.k.a. That's My Face

E Minha Cara a.k.a. That's My Face

E Minha Cara a.k.a. That's My Face

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Missing Relations

Missing Relations

Missing Relations

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Frankie & Jocie

Frankie & Jocie

Frankie & Jocie

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Anomaly: A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

Anomaly: A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

Anomaly: A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity
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Soraya, Love Is Not Forgotten

Soraya, Love Is Not Forgotten

Soraya, Love Is Not Forgotten

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The Mseyas

The Mseyas

The Mseyas

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Mute Love

Mute Love

Mute Love

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Mother's Hands

Mother's Hands

Mother's Hands

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Marriage

Marriage

Marriage

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Two Months to Home

Two Months to Home

Two Months to Home

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Ma/baap

Ma/baap

Ma/baap

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Promise and Unrest

Promise and Unrest

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Promise and Unrest

An intimate portrayal of a migrant woman performing global care work and long-distance motherhood in her role as sole provider for an extended family back in the Philippines.
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Little Immigrants

Little Immigrants

Little Immigrants

LITTLE IMMIGRANTS is an insider's look into child smuggling captured from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Leaving Bakul Bagan

Leaving Bakul Bagan

Leaving Bakul Bagan

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La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx

La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx

La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx

Art, labor, and family blend in this intimate film about Latina performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as ‘La Bruja’.
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Invisible

Invisible

Invisible

Children Living with HIV / AIDS.
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In Whose Name?

In Whose Name?

In Whose Name?

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Human Touch: Pain and Power

Human Touch: Pain and Power

Human Touch: Pain and Power

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Frozen Happiness: Impunity, Elections and Hope in Oaxaca

Frozen Happiness: Impunity, Elections and Hope in Oaxaca

Frozen Happiness: Impunity, Elections and Hope in Oaxaca

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Homecoming

Homecoming

Homecoming

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Family Portrait in Black and White

Family Portrait in Black and White

Family Portrait in Black and White

Olga Nenya is a foster mother to sixteen Black orphans in Ukraine - where 99.9% of the population is white and where race matters.
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Fathers, Sons & Unholy Ghosts

Fathers, Sons & Unholy Ghosts

Fathers, Sons & Unholy Ghosts

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Extra Change

Extra Change

Extra Change

A realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love.
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Excuse My Gangsta Ways

Excuse My Gangsta Ways

Excuse My Gangsta Ways

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Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life

Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life

Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life

A moving video essay about motherhood and mourning.
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Praise House

Praise House

Praise House

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Dreaming Rivers

Dreaming Rivers

Dreaming Rivers

This short fiction piece explores the thoughts and dreams of a middle-aged Afro-Caribbean immgrant in England on her deathbed.
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A Week with Azar

A Week with Azar

A Week with Azar

Azar, an Iranian computer engineer living in the United States, failed to see her ill sister in Isfahan (Iran) for the last time because of the Executive Order 13769.
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A Nice Arrangement

A Nice Arrangement

A Nice Arrangement

Set in the London home of an Indian family on the morning of their daughter's wedding, this film is a wry depiction of one of the most central of Indian traditions -- the arranged marriage.
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