Anthropology

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 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.