A day in the life of four electronic monitoring devices.

Adrift, a short documentary, follows the story of astronaut Piers Sellers who accidentally dropped his spatula in space in 2006. His spatula became a deadly piece of space junk, travelling at 17,000 miles per second. 

A short documentary about the rise and fall of Presidents Park, and one man's quest to bring the giant presidential busts back into the public eye.

A 3-foot-something actor/comedian/disability advocate strives to retake the stage following a life-endangering diagnosis.

Activist Karen Topakian has been arrested dozens of times for using nonviolent civil disobedience to protest nuclear proliferation, human rights abuses, environmental issues, and war. What drives her to repeatedly put her body on the line?

In turn lighthearted and moving, Karen's story speaks to the need for Americans, now more than ever, to exercise this important First Amendment right.

Karen is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Greenpeace, Inc. She began protesting in New York City

Two hundred cows from the town of Ulle make the three-day journey up the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees mountains at the start of the summer.

A family of Ponderai Native Americans embark on a controversial journey through Yellowstone to exercise their treaty hunting rights - glimpsing into the continued marginalization of indigenous life in the American West, and challenging our expectations of what it means to assert a tribal heritage in the modern world.

The final days of the mythical rental house 'Mondo Macabro', located in Corrientes Avenue in the heart of Buenos Aires. Specialized in Authors and bizarro films Mondo Macabro was during 20 years a symbol of the under culture in Buenos Aires.

The Washington Post called Battle Mountain, Nevada the "armpit of America." So what would inspire a San Francisco attorney and a New York electrical engineer, to abandon comfortable lives for such a locale? An inextinguishable passion for consumer fireworks. Meet Steven and Earl Cassorla. Friends and family may have questioned their sanity, but never their spirit. Add a one-horse town with an abandoned Subway franchise, an open-minded city council, endless Interstate 80 traffic and you've got a recipe for the American Dream-come-true. Today the store and the brothers entertain and serve countless customers from around the world and from every walk of life, all fueled by a love of family, friends, freedom, and anything with a fuse. Despite a dizzying selection of items, they’re in "the memory business." And business is booming.

The spectacular rise and fall of the International Professional Volleyball Association, which existed between 1975–1980 complete with "party lifestyle," rocking arena matches and stars on the court and in the stands, is chronicled in this Michael Jacobs-directed film.

'Dirty Roses' is a humanitarian docudrama and deals with the power of the soul of the disabled persons and individuals or families who came from the Arab world in Greece as war or economic or political refugees. 

A sixteen-year-old girl must save her younger brother from the dangerous reality of their father's sudden mental breakdown.

A crowd gathers until the early morning at a boozy London pub to watch the US presidential election. As dawn breaks, emotions escalate and the evening takes a turn for the worse.

EXILED tells the stories of two deported US military veterans living in Tijuana.  Stuck in Mexico, Army combat veteran Mauricio Hernandez struggles to find adequate treatment for his severe PTSD, while former paratrooper Hector Barajas fights to reunite with his daughter in LA, and raise awareness about deported veterans.

In 2005, Tanya Vlach loses an eye in a horrific car accident. As an artist and photographer, she approaches the loss as an opportunity to explore the possibility of turning her prosthetic eye into an intraocular camera. Her exciting journey into the field of wearable tech changes her life, forever altering her perspective

On a Norwegian island high in the Arctic Circle, there is a small outpost of Russia. Barentsburg is home to about 500 people and a single, loss-making coal mine -- but Russia appears determined to keep it going. No economical profit, only political price and banner presence matter. Russian and Ukrainian miners work together, with no political debates.

Gotta Groove Records mission is to produce the highest quality vinyl records from both a sonic and aesthetic perspective. They believe that the vinyl record format is the last physical medium embodying sound recordings that will live for decades to come. 

Two recent medical school graduates in 1981 discover a high altitude gastrointestinal syndrome, coining an acronym for it and, for better or worse, cement their place in medical science history.

Handmade film is a rarely practiced craft in today's film industry. Lindsay McIntyre spends three days making the film emulsion she shoots on than develops herself.

Opaque Manifesto presents Hidden Glances, a documentary short about the life and oeuvre of Spanish master photographer Isabel Muñoz. Directed by Gonzalo Hergueta, this production is a portrait of Isabel and her search for beauty inside the stories of those who she photographs. 

An airport motel off of I-95 is an unlikely haven for asylum seekers during their first hours in America. And yet, after their long journeys, this is where many refugees will spend their very first night in this country, before taking connecting flights to their final point of resettlement. "Hotel USA" captures a group of newcomers during their first moments in the country, exploring the sense of loss and hope that pervades the refugee experience.

Millions of refugees vie for entry to the United States, but only the lucky few are approved for resettlement here. Their journeys, organized by the International Organization for Migration, a non-governmental agency, are long and exhausting. When they finally arrive on our shores, a new life filled with uncertainty lies ahead.

During the course of just one night at this motel, refugees get their first taste of life in the country. Some arrive after decades in a refugee camp, and learn how to use a TV or

Ichiro was fishing near the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, when the 2004 tsunami struck his boat. Stranded on an island during the devastation he wondered if he would ever see his family again.

Planet Earth has fallen in love with another celestial being: NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour. 

Using original documentary footage of Endeavour’s final journey through the streets of Los Angeles as well as archival NASA material, INERTIA is a love letter to manned space exploration.

Carel Struycken (TWIN PEAKS) provides the voice of the planet, who watches in sorrow as the space shuttle is laid to rest.

Moments of intimacy and distance unfold before us in this quiet examination of family life across three generations of women.

The San Quentin 1000 Mile Running Club is comprised of a mixed age, race, and ethnicity set of inmates at California's historical San Quentin State Prison. The men, who are serving time for anything from drug possession to first degree murder, find temporary solace in long distance running. They are coached by runner Franklin Ruona, who comes in from the outside and with a small set of other supportive running coaches, volunteer time to help these men train for their annual marathon. Laps is a film that captures a regular training day in the recreation yard.

Filmed with minimal interviews, Lonnie Holley: The Truth of the Dirt is a verite portrait of a man who sees beauty in what others step on, step over, and leave behind. It is a portrait of an artist who creates art from objects and materials infused with history and memory. 

After fleeing the civil war in Syria and relocating to South Africa, a young family struggles to preserve their ties to the ancient city of Aleppo. Confined to their one-room apartment, they receive a string of unsettling news from relatives still caught in the conflict.

Niofar tells the story of a young French girl who went to meet the Senegal and its inhabitants in the hope to become integrated.

The film is built like a poem, the closest to the different stages of the meeting: we go from the "I" against the "you", leading to the "he" who is even further a stranger, then the three of them learn to get along, to be tamed and find each other in the "us". In the Wolof language, Niofiar means "to be together". It’s an ode to sharing and cultural exchanges.

No Vacancy explores the struggles of San Francisco artists as they contend with exorbitant rent prices, developers looking to convert art spaces into luxury condos and a city that isn’t paying attention to them.  All the artists in the film face the prospect of being priced out of San Francisco in the near future. 

These artists are the cultural fabric of a city that doesn’t have room for them anymore.  

Two musicians and a dancer make an ancient and sacred ritual offering to the earth.

The Other Side is the story of deported musician Jose Marquez and his daughter Susanna who have been separated for almost 15 years but meet every month on either side of the US-Mexico border wall.

A hippy textile artist with Asperger's tries to cancel out the overwhelming stimulus of life, by focusing in on the wonderful and tiniest details of the world.

‘This is the story of a man who drowned… and came back from the dead to sleep with the world’s most iconic supermodel, Twiggy. A big wave pioneer who “died more times than Jesus”, a man who constantly risked his life to find life, to find the edge or reason and overcome it. His name is Ric Friar and this is a story of ‘Phenomenality’. 
And like all good movies there was sex, death, bar brawls, and a heap of shit. Friar literally became the “King of Poo” and made a fortune in the process. It’s a life that sequences more like a feature length dream: a truly wild concoction of adventures constantly intersecting with equal measures of insanity and bra

'Refugee' is the remarkable story of a mother's love, and how the power of hope can propel us through insurmountable obstacles, even after losing everything.

A doctor walks the line of his own morality as he participates in executions, while personally opposing capital punishment.

In the informal metal trade, a metal scrapper hunts the streets of Oakland searching for his day’s keep.

Shooting War, is a short documentary that tells the story of the Iraq war through three photographs, from the point-of-view of the photographer,

A short experimental doc about how the limits and bounds of our daily lives are determined by the smartphones in our lives. The film was made by taking 35 Ubers over a weekend in Silicon Valley. 

The Central African Republic. Here in the shade of sub-panel rainforests lives a tribe of the shortest people on Earth — the Baka pygmies. As it was hundreds years ago they hunt for meat and gather gifts of big trees. They pray to the spirits of the forest and teach their children to respect the forest, to take from it only what is of great need. But little by little their traditional mode is changing under the pressure of the "Big World" culture.

Two friends stumble upon the mother lode of movie memorabilia in the most unexpected of places.

The Man is the Music draws us into Atlanta-based artist and musician Lonnie Holley’s imaginative and captivating world.

A mother uses her voice to overcome trauma.

Karen People of Burma believe no one hears their pleas for help as their country remains ravaged by a war that has lasted more than six decades. Over 10,000 photos animate a landscape over which Voices from Kaw Thoo Lei may be heard.

Washed Away chronicles the transformation of a person who goes from one of the darkest places a human can go to a place of hope and inspiration. The driving force behind his change is art.

Who Killed Park Merced? explores the fate of one of San Francisco’s most beloved communities, Parkmerced, in the face of overwhelming developer greed and disregard of neighborhood character and liveability.

Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, known simply as "OZ”, is a self-described wizard who created a life for himself that is truly stranger than fiction. His tale conjures stories of unicorns, mermaids, a serial killer and the most cryptic magic of all, love.

The Yowie is an 80's inspired documentary that peeks into the life of "Yowie" Dan as he escapes the doldrums of his normal life to search the Australian bushland for a mysterious hominid (ape-man aka 'The Yowie')