Anthropology

This crucial exposé offers rare dispatches from the proxy war in Yemen - cutting through the politics to contextualize its convoluted nature and its catastrophic toll on the Middle East's most vulnerable population.

This conscientious documentary focuses on marginalized youth of Mexican descent in East Los Angeles - whose basic human concerns remain in the shadows of a public debate dominated by anti-immigration rhetoric and discrimination.

This acclaimed profile of an elderly Chinese couple facing the twilight of lucidity offers an intimate reflection on life vulnerable to a new generational crisis - as traditional notions of caregiving are being eroded by modernization.

A brilliant take on the global revival of far-right ideologies - this profile of a Czech white supremacist explores the tragicomically mundane conditions of provincial distress and how internet culture has been reshaping the psychology of hatred.

This visual essay traces California’s oldest freeway as it courses from the San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific Ocean - defining and dividing the communities it is designed to serve.

This documentary offers a timely exposé of contemporary American life at the frontier of the border with Mexico through a myriad of perspectives - and what emerges is an endearing and nuanced profile of a society gradually faltering toward schism.

This compelling account follows a group of therapeutic clowns in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos to reflect on the emotional undercurrents of the refugee experience - and the precarious state of children in times of displacement.

A searing and sobering exposé from the depths of the war against ISIS in Syria - this film sheds light on the accounts of western volunteers who join Kurdish YPG forces to fight on the front lines of the most brutal armed conflict of our time.

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 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.