Anthropology

This enduring documentary from Yemen's first female director aligns its gaze to the experiences of Yemeni children amidst the worst humanitarian crisis of our time.

This pressing British documentary critically explores invisible threads behind contemporary media coverage in a new era of mass migration and refugee crisis - and the profound ethical conflicts facing the international press.

This documentary chronicles the cultural phenomenon known as Queercore - tracing its underground origins in the 80's as a punk subculture aimed at radical artistic and political expression and its growth into a global activist movement for queer youth.

This highly acclaimed and ultimately disturbing documentary explores China's extreme forms of cyber escapism - and the omnipresent platform that caters to the isolation and ennui plaguing China's youth.

This distinguished portrait of Berlin's historic Tempelhof Airport - a Nazi icon that has been repurposed as Germany's largest emergency shelter for asylum seekers - is an study of the institutional reconstitution of human lives.

This film goes deep into the Amazon rainforests of Brazil to find critical proof of an indigenous tribe dwelling outside modern society. This evidence amounts to perhaps the only legal barrier saving what remains of their rainforests from destruction.

A nuanced study of rural China - this visually stunning film flows poetically around the daily lives of three generations in a secluded mountain village that is nevertheless under the pull of China's monumental transition.

Revealing the 1970's phenomenon of how young Muslim men seduced vacationing European women as practical means to get by - this film constructs a nuanced account of contemporary Muslim life and its relationship to the West.

A reflective essay film about the Syrian Civil War's fracturing of family relationships and the fragility of existence.

This comprehensive ethnographic film ventures into the vast of Western China as depicted in the eternal photographs of Zhuang Xueben - one of the most important Chinese visual anthropologists of his age.

A meditation on the socially-stratified city of Hong Kong - this crafty essay film reflects on the alienation and social dislocation of its residents produced by the undercurrents of change to its political economy.