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- DirectorFrank StiefelStarsTom WudlA brilliant but tortured 56-year-old artist channels her depression and anxiety into her work.
- DirectorOrlando von EinsiedelStarsDana AbedTia AlkerdiKhalid FarahAs daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.
- DirectorSharmeen Obaid-ChinoyStarsAsad JamalSabaA woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for falling in love becomes a rare survivor of the country's harsh judicial system.
- DirectorEllen Goosenberg KentCounselors provide support, guidance and hope to despondent servicemen dealing with emotional, physical and financial troubles.
- DirectorMalcolm ClarkeStarsAliza Sommer-HerzZdenka FantlovaAnita Lasker-WallfischAliza Sommer-Herz, aged 109 and the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, tells the story of how music saved her life: both during her time at Theresienstadt concentration camp and in the years afterwards.
- DirectorSean FineAndrea NixA personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist's determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past. 'Inocente' is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in her story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.
- DirectorDaniel JungeSharmeen Obaid-ChinoyStarsSarkar AbbasMohammad JawadPlastic surgeon Dr. Mohammad Jawad returns to his native Pakistan to help those left horribly scarred by acid attacks.
- DirectorKaren GoodmanKirk SimonIn the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger. The film follows several students' struggle to acclimate to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy: Mohammed, a sixteen-year-old refugee from Darfur, witnessed the killing of his grandmother and father before escaping alone through Egypt to Israel. Having never been in a school before, his sharp mind and tremendous determination enable him to make up the years of study he never had. Johannes arrived at Bialik-Rogozin after spending most of his life in refugee camps across the Middle East. His father struggles to obtain a work visa while twelve-year-old Johannes struggles to adjust to attending school for the first time. After a slow start, his teachers realize that he is nearly blind in one eye and take him to an eye clinic. With his new glasses, before long, he is reading and writing - and helping other newcomers to adjust. After the murder of her mother, Esther and her father fled South Africa with nothing, in search of safety and peace of mind. At Bialik-Rogozin, they are welcomed with clothing, food and counsel on beginning a new life. Esther's teachers try to relieve the trauma of a nine-year-old girl who believes her mother will return. With tremendous effort and dedication, the school provides the support these children need to recover from their past. Together, the bond between teacher and student, and amongst the students themselves, enables them to create new lives in this exceptional community. Upon graduation, Mohammed provides the finest evidence of the school's ultimate success -- declaring his dream to return to Darfur and build a school for the children of the village he once fled.
- DirectorRoger Ross WilliamsStarsFarai MabhandePrudence MabhenaEnergy MaburutsePrudence Mabhena leads a group of young, disabled Africans who inspire others with their music, proving that disability does not mean inability.
- DirectorMegan MylanStarsAnti ChauhanGhutaru ChauhanVirendra Kumar DasA real-world fairy-tale about the journey of Pinki and Ghutaru, two children in rural India whose lives are forever changed by a simple surgery they never imagined possible.
- DirectorCynthia WadeStarsLaurel HesterStacie AndreeDane B. WellsIn the last weeks of her life, Lieutenant Laurel Hester has one goal - to leave her hard-earned pension to her life partner Stacie. Without it, Stacie will lose their house. For once the law is not on Laurel's side. Time is running out.
- DirectorRuby YangStarsHuang ChildrenGao JunNan NanA year in the life of children in the Province of Anhui in China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease.
- DirectorEric SimonsonStarsRobert AltmanNorman CorwinWalter CronkiteA biography of Poet Norman Corwin, and the events surrounding his powerful radio broadcast commemorating VE Day on May 8, 1945.
- DirectorRobert HoustonStarsDominiqua AlexisRico E. AndersonJosh EvansOn May 2, 1963, the children of Birmingham, Alabama took to the streets to challenge segregation.
- DirectorMaryann DeLeoStarsWilliam NovickAdi RocheThis Academy Award-winning documentary takes a look at children born after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster who have been born with a deteriorated heart condition.
- DirectorBill GuttentagRobert David PortStarsTommy BudaTwo brothers, one a firefighter, one a police officer, are remembered for their bravery in New York City on September 11.
- DirectorSarah KernochanStarsS.K. ThothRobert JanoffElayne JonesThoth is a street performer currently in New York. Thoth is an individual with a complicated life and background. Thoth plays on opera with a violin in a loincloth in Central Park. Thoth is.
- DirectorTracy SereteanStarsWalter DeeViola DeesThe story of Viola Dees, an elderly woman who is trying to care for her troubled grandson.
- DirectorSusan Hannah HadaryWilliam A. WhitefordStarsPaul HungerfordDan KeplingerA short documentary that focus on artist Dan Keplinger, a man born with cerebral palsy who manages to compose great works of art. Baltimore filmmakers Susan Hadary and William Whiteford then decided to present the life and work of King Gimp as Dan is called by his neighbors.
- DirectorKeiko IbiStarsGloria BobrofskyAbram CalderonDeborah EhrlichDocumentary about a Jewish senior citizens' acting group on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The film covers both the progress and impediments of a play the group is mounting about senior citizens looking for love and the life/love stories (past, present, and predictions) of the players.
- DirectorDonna DeweyStarsBarron ChristianDonna DeweyIn January, 1997, a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists, and three plastic surgeons arrive in Vietnam from the United States for two weeks' of volunteer work. They operate on 110 children who have various birth defects and injuries. They also talk to the film crew about why they've made this trip and what it means to them. We watch them work, and we see the children, their families, and their surroundings in the Mekong Delta. Over the closing credits, Dionne Warwick sings Bacharach and David's "What the World Needs Now Is Love."
- DirectorJessica YuStarsMark O'BrienElizabeth DuvallIan BerzonPortrait of writer Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio as a child and spent much of his life in an iron lung.
- DirectorKary AntholisStarsGerda Weissmann KleinKurt KleinPeter ThomasHolocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein recounts her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty, including the loss of her parents, brother, friends, home, possessions, and community.
- DirectorCharles GuggenheimA short history of civil rights movements in the US.
- DirectorMargaret LazarusRenner WunderlichStacey KabatDocumentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their terrifying personal testimonies.