Human Interest Movies

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking pass...

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, a...

An elderly man and a youngster, fight over a much-coveted parking spot, let their egos get the better of them and the clash brings out their ugliest s...

Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos,...

Following a tragic plane crash, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder happens upon a hastily-written note that was from one of the passengers onboard....

Atlantis is known across the world as a myth. But is this really the truth? No matter what cultural history we explore, we discover a story very simil...

A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the...

In a darkened classroom, the white cracked walls serve as a movie screen. We are in a remote mountain village in Georgia. The light from the projector...

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.

As the healthcare system in Venezuela comes crashing down and millions of people flee the country, a doctor, a pharmacist, an activist and two cancer...

Haunted by his violent past, the ambitious lawyer Anuol returns to his homeland, South Sudan, committed to serve his country and hold accountable thos...

Heddy Honigmann returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru to reacquaint herself with a place and people dear to her heart. It is about a forgotten city,...

Amidst the horror and chaos of war, two enemies are forced into an unholy alliance in the battle for survival.

At the consulting service for immigrants at the Avicenne Hospital in suburban Paris, we observe the sorrow and powerlessness of the immigrants who com...

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living i...

Saar is an HIV positive gay man living in London, where he found refuge from the religious kibbutz where he grew up in Israel. Ever since he was diagn...

Somewhere in Myanmar is a forest rich in amber and controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Most of its inhabitants work in a mine, digging t...