Our collective imagination of homelessness is shaped by the idea of someone who is single and lonely. Roy and Morag explode that myth and take in companionship, humor and love, alongside the dirt, noi...
Although overtly 'about sex', the film is really about what individual freedom means. Initially inspired by a video art installation, the piece reveals the complexities of pornography, old age and ind...
For 15 years, Carroll Pickett ministered to 95 inmates in the final moments of their lives on Death Row in a Texas penitentiary. He watched as Billy Wayne White helped with his own execution. Directed...
In 2007, the Achilles Track Club of New York brought a young Chechen runner to the city to join in its 5-kilometer race of Hope and Possibility. Running on crutches, Adam’s presence capped a three-y...
Sometimes, an entire lifetime is decided in a moment. At least it was for Isaiah Zagar, whose mother’s scream when he was three set him on the road to becoming an artist. In this striking, dream-lik...
“Wait for me. Wait for me and I will return.” Thus begins an extraordinary film that began a few years ago when a friend of filmmaker Ross Kauffman casually mentioned in conversation the disappear...
David Rose holds one of the most intriguing, touching and amusing positions in journalism: editor of the Personals column of the London Review of Books. Not many jobs offer as much insight into the hu...
Filmmaker Floyd Webb first met John Keehan, aka Count Dante, in 1964. Then 11, Webb came to admire the "crown prince of death" - respected karate master voodoo priest and martial arts promoter made fa...
Where exactly do babies come from? And how are they really made?<br />
Mixing humorous animation and interviews, Oscar winner Jessica Yu poses these questions to a variety of adults and youngsters wh...
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more unusual circus, or father-daughter performing duo. The Moscow Cat Theatre is just that: a travelling show of cats that perform amazing tricks for the owners who...