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Health Factory

Health Factory Governments apply models taken from business corporations in order to improve our health care systems. Do choice, competition and capitalist models improve health care?
Onanya

Onanya Onanya is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of an Amazonian tribe that has stood the test of time. The Shipibo are indigenous gatekeepers of the natural kingdom and its medicinal plants whose way of life is under threat.
Playing for Keeps

Playing for Keeps PLAYING FOR KEEPS examines the value of play through a health-focused lens.
Slow Food Story

Slow Food Story The Slow Food Story is the essential one-stop critical guide to the history, ideas, structure, and membership of the Slow Food movement. Trailer
Week 23

Week 23 How far can one go based purely on maternal instincts
Weed the People

Weed the People Discover the powerful anti-cancer properties of cannabis oil in 'Weed the People.' Follow desperate parents fighting for their children's survival.
I’m Doing My Job

I’m Doing My Job I’m Doing My Job follows 6 young, female South Asian & Black emergency medical physicians’ lives throughout the pandemic in NYC.
Born Free: Birth in America

Born Free: Birth in America If birth and pregnancy are a lens on how society values its women, why has it become a fight that American women are losing?
Anxious Nation

Anxious Nation Anxious Nation looks deeply into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America, especially its crippling impact on kids and families
The Invisible Extinction

The Invisible Extinction Two renowned globetrotting scientist microbiologists race to save our vanishing microbes before it's too late
The 8th

The 8th The 8th traces Ireland’s campaign to remove the 8th Amendment – a constitutional ban on abortion, forging a new progressive path when reproductive rights are threatened all over the world
How to Survive a Pandemic

How to Survive a Pandemic A deadly virus. A world on its knees. A race to save humanity.
White Coat Rebels

White Coat Rebels A true story about the state of healthcare in America.
Here. Is. Better.

Here. Is. Better. Hope makes the mission possible.
The Human Trial

The Human Trial Would you go first?
The Disruptors

The Disruptors A definitive, comprehensive documentary film on ADHD
Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops – ABA

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops – ABA A rare 360 degree portrait, Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops follows two police officers with the San Antonio Texas Police Department who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment, one emergency call at a time
Behind the Swedish Model

Behind the Swedish Model A unique behind the scenes documentary from deep within the Swedish Government, following the decision-makers behind their controversial fight against the Covid-19 pandemic
Not Going Quietly

Not Going Quietly Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement
Against the Tides

Against the Tides A woman’s ambition, to swim all seven of the world’s most harrowing sea channels in a single year, tests both her athletic limits and her personal relationships
Perfect

Perfect Asaf, paralyzed on his left side, is going on a journey to accept his disability, during which he meets other disabled people. together, they discuss their daily lives with incredible honesty.
Clean Hands

Clean Hands What happens when your wildest dreams come true? From living on a garbage dump, a philanthropist builds them a house and farm. Shot over the course of seven years, ‘Clean Hands’ is an award-winning account of family, extreme poverty and the hope and innocence of children.
The Curve

The Curve An investigative documentary thriller covering America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, tracing the decisions and mistakes made by the U.S. government over a crucial three-month period, using a creative blend of interviews, archival material and original music.
The First Wave

The First Wave A moving testament to the power of the human spirit, THE FIRST WAVE spotlights the experiences of New York City healthcare workers at the epicenter of COVID-19, as they come together to fight one of the greatest threats the world has ever encountered
The Big Scary “S” Word

The Big Scary “S” Word THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD delves into the rich history of the American socialist movement and journeys with the people striving to build a socialist future today
Wake Up

Wake Up Stories from the frontlines of suicide prevention
Mission: JOY

Mission: JOY Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu share science-backed wisdom of how to live with joy in troubled times in Mission: JOY.
Who’s afraid of Alice Miller?

Who’s afraid of Alice Miller? Martin is beaten by his father and rejected by his mother - and she looked away. This could be an example from the bestseller “The drama of the gifted child“ by psychoanalyst Alice Miller. Except Martin is Alice Millers son
No Man’s Zone

No Man’s Zone The 40 year old nuclear power station on the coast of Fukushima went into crisis after being struck by the tsunami on March 11th 2011. Within 24 hours, evacuation order was proclaimed to the surrounding 20 Km area
Like an Open Sky

Like an Open Sky On the French-Belgian border, there’s a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to understand the enigma that each one of them represents and invent the solutions that will help them to live in peace
I’ll Come to You with Deaf Eyes

I’ll Come to You with Deaf Eyes The film examines the roots of the distress that plagues the Deaf, and explores a rich and fascinating world, a people that struggles to preserve its Sign Language and Culture
Each and Every Moment

Each and Every Moment Every year, thousands of students embark upon courses that will lead them to become nurses. It is a difficult process during which they will have to acquire a great deal of knowledge, master numerous technical procedures and prepare themselves for heavy responsibilities.
Almost There

Almost There Three men who embark on a journey in search of meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives.
Golden Age

Golden Age Old age can still be fun - and a good business, too!
The Good Death

The Good Death One woman's journey to her final goal.
Once Upon a Boy

Once Upon a Boy The film gives us a rare and intimate view of family life, while navigating the universal experiences of a family, which have a unique experience of raising a child with special needs
Third Person

Third Person Suzan isn’t either-or. Suzan isn’t both. Not quite male, not quite female. At 35 years old Suzan discovers this for the first time
Exit Music

Exit Music A rare invitation into the world of a young artist dying of cystic fibrosis as he navigates the ominous, sacred, and unmapped journey at the end of life
Voices from El Sayed

Voices from El Sayed El Sayed village has the highest percentage of deaf in the world. Deafness is accepted as one’s fate. Allowing modern medical technology of Cochlear Implant to change the destiny of 3 years’ old Muhammed challenges tradition in this conservative community
Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops A rare 360 degree portrait, Ernie and Joe: Crisis Cops follows two police officers with the San Antonio Texas Police Department who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment, one emergency call at a time
Varvilla

Varvilla An illustration of a small mountain cooperative community at 1000 meters elevation
Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob?

Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob? A film about both farewells and reunion
Eat, Grow, Love

Eat, Grow, Love We often ask ourselves, how can I contribute to a more sustainable society? 'Eat, Grow, Love' travels across the globe to find that permaculture could well hold some of the answers. Trailer
Self Portrait

Self Portrait Lene Marie Fossen, a world class photographer, suffers from anorexia. She stopped eating at the age of ten. Intent on exposing the shame around anorexia and confronting her disease, her art is naked and honest
Bending the Arc

Bending the Arc In the 1980s, three young people barely out of their teens began a movement that would change global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story.
Angels in the Dust

Angels in the Dust Angels In the Dust is the story of a courageous, self-sacrificing, fiercely loving woman who chooses a spiritual path over a material one; it tells of the life-changing power of one compassionate heart.
Bedlam

Bedlam An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
Resilience

Resilience A one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent toxic stress
Paper Tigers

Paper Tigers One high school’s unlikely success story.
Human Nature

Human Nature The story of CRISPR. The most important scientific discovery of the 21st century.
The World According to Sesame Street

The World According to Sesame Street The World According To Sesame Street explores the drama, challenges, and rewarding outcome as dedicated Sesame producers and local producers bring to life the world’s most watched children’s television program in Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa.
The First Patient

The First Patient First year medical students on the ultimate expedition to explore the inside of the human body
House Call – Vika

House Call – Vika We follow the medical team aiding Vika, a single mother with cancer, during her final days.
The Price of Free

The Price of Free Opening our eyes to the injustice of child labour, this film tell the true stories of child labourers rescued by Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi.
Do You Trust This Computer

Do You Trust This Computer From the director of WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
Congo in 4 Acts

Congo in 4 Acts A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Broken Places

Broken Places “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
The Islands and the Whales

The Islands and the Whales An Interpid Cinema film
What Lies Upstream

What Lies Upstream The truth has been spilled, in this classic detective story where investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels to West Virginia to uncover the truth behind a massive chemical spill that left 300,000 people without drinking water for months.
Not Alone

Not Alone In a world that is so connected, why do we feel so alone? Jacqueline Monetta asks teens to share their struggles with mental illness and suicide.
Burning Out

Burning Out Doctors in a Parisian hospital are fighting a life-and-death battle. Everything’s got to be cheaper, quicker and more efficient. A glimpse of imminent burnout in the healthcare system.
Unseen Enemy

Unseen Enemy Examining the recent epidemics of Ebola, Influenza and Zika, Unseen Enemy makes it clear that epidemics bring out the best and worst of human behavior, and that their effect goes far beyond the terrible tolls of sickness and death.
Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta)

Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta) With their parents' divorce, a family is divided between the two conflicting worlds: that of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and of the secular
The C Word

The C Word Reveals the forces at play keeping us sick and dares to ask: if up to 70% of cancer deaths are preventable... what are we waiting for? It's time for cancer to be afraid of us
Toxic Hot Seat

Toxic Hot Seat A searing exposé on the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products. Are chemical flame retardants making us sick?
Time to Choose

Time to Choose Climate change is the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced – and is also our greatest opportunity. TIME TO CHOOSE leaves audiences understanding what can be done to fix this global threat.
Life, Animated

Life, Animated A documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams based on a book by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ron Suskind.
Good Things Await

Good Things Await Neil is an ageing farmer who's produce is prized by Copenhagen's famed NOMA restaurant. Will new regulations threaten his way of life?
Placebo

Placebo With an acceptance rate of just 0.1%, India’s most prestigious medical school is much more competitive than any Ivy League university. Getting in, however, is the easy part.
Little People Big Dreams

Little People Big Dreams Behind the curtains of the most unlikely kingdom on earth. This is China's Dwarves Empires, where little people stand tall. Or do they?
Leaving Africa

Leaving Africa A film about the quest for gender equality in Africa, told through the eyes of a Finish Aid worker in Uganga experiencing homophobic blackmail.
Breathing Underwater

Breathing Underwater Women of the sea have to hold their breath to survive. The documentary reveals a closed community of women whose lives are bound to the oceans surrounding them.
Thank You For Playing

Thank You For Playing How can a video game address the universal complexity of grief? THANK YOU FOR PLAYING explores how the fusion of art and technology can document profound human experiences in the modern age.
Trapped

Trapped With U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive, what remains of a woman's right to choose?
The Crash Reel

The Crash Reel The Mind Has Mountains. Kevin Pearce is an unforgettable athlete with a comeback story with a difference.
Escape Fire

Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare. Tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system?
A Place At The Table

A Place At The Table One nation. Underfed. Examining the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity.
Awake: The Life of Yogananda

Awake: The Life of Yogananda Filmed over three years with the participation of 30 countries around the world, the documentary examines the world of yoga and explores why millions today have turned their attention inwards, bucking the limitations of the material world in pursuit of self-realization.
Connected

Connected An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology. This is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century.
Like The Others

Like The Others A rare insight into daily life at a child and adolescent psychiatric centre. We meet dedicated therapists, parents and patients with very different problems.
Dust. The great Asbestos Trial

Dust. The great Asbestos Trial The great asbestos trial recounts the first degree criminal trial of Turin, which should decide of the responsibilities of the biggest leaders in the social aftermath of the company's activities, related to both his own employees and the community.
Health Factory

Health Factory Governments apply models taken from business corporations in order to improve our health care systems. Do choice, competition and capitalist models improve health care?
Lost Down Memory Lane

Lost Down Memory Lane The first documentary about living with Alzheimer’s, as seen through the eyes of the people who suffer from it.
Karla’s Arrival

Karla’s Arrival Teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Mother and baby struggle to reach the little one’s first birthday.
The Optimists

The Optimists Many of us fear age. Youth is our modern world's ideal. These ballplaying ladies might change our ideas, and possibly make us realize that those who do get to experience old age are actually the lucky ones.
My Toxic Baby

My Toxic Baby This is a personal essay that aims to broaden the options that are made available to parents in the context of the chemical world we live in today.
My Barefoot Friend

My Barefoot Friend Shallim is a rickshaw puller, an ordinary man with an old and tired rickshaw. He runs endless miles with it each day to allow him to support his family.
Open Heart

Open Heart Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life or death journey seeking high-risk but potentially life-saving heart surgery in Sudan.
I Am a Woman Now

I Am a Woman Now The story of the first generation of transsexuals, as told by five women who underwent surgical reassignment procedures in 1950s Casablanca.
Big Tobacco, Young Targets

Big Tobacco, Young Targets Tobacco will continue to kill 8 million people each year and yet the dangers of smoking are well known. The very survival of the industry is at stake and they will do what it takes to remain profitable.
A Mi Lado (By My Side)

A Mi Lado (By My Side) Some mothers put their children first. Some don’t. To survive in the trash of the Chureca, three young women will have to determine whether their mothers are their best allies or unexpected foes.
A Stranger’s Skin

A Stranger’s Skin How does a young man become obese? Arnaud is 20 and severely overweight. Whatmade him overeat and why does he now decide to turn to surgery to solve his weight problem?
Bicycle, Spoon, Apple

Bicycle, Spoon, Apple Pasqual Maragall is a well known and well liked Spanish politician. When he is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, he decides to use his position as a platform to advocate for research into this disease.
White Black Boy

White Black Boy In Tanzania, albinos are threatened by witch doctors who use their body parts to create magic potions. For their own protection, albino children are sent to boarding schools, far away from their families.
The Age Of Aluminium

The Age Of Aluminium Aluminium has found its way into every facet of our lives: deodorants, sunlotions, vaccines or filtered drinking water. But this light metal comes with heavy consequences. ...
LoveMEATender

LoveMEATender This documentary is a fierce indictment of the industrialized meat industry. The objective is to demonstrate the consequences of our excessive meat consumption: for the animals, for the earth, but also for our own bodies.
A Diary of Healing

A Diary of Healing The director learns she has breast cancer. Her life is turned upside down. Her journey through the medical world, part of an artistic and personal quest, achieves unprecedented intimacy with the disease.
Danube Hospital

Danube Hospital DANUBE HOSPITAL, a portrait of one of Europe’s largest hospitals, shows the daily routines and work processes at a powerful and highly complex institution.
Toxic Playground

Toxic Playground Toxic waste was sent from Sweden to Chile in the 80's. Children began to play amongst the waste; when they get sick where does the finger of blame point?
Matthew’s Laws

Matthew’s Laws Director Marc Schmidt films his childhood friend Matthew, who, due to his autistic disorder, desperately tries to create order in the chaos around him.
Lone Twin

Lone Twin At the age of 20, director Anna Van der Wee lost her twin brother. By investigating the bond between twins, she hopes to understand what it means to be a twin, and what one looses when one of them dies.
The Punk Syndrome

The Punk Syndrome A film about Finland's most kick-ass punk rock band with Down Syndrome.
Luxuries

Luxuries A critical look at the Israeli control of the flow of goods into Gaza , revealing the absurdity and cruelty of a policy that attempts to distinguish between necessity and luxury.
Family Matters (Mishpuche)

Family Matters (Mishpuche) A single hetrosexual woman teams up with a gay couple to form an alternative family cell.

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