2025

A group of five people sit together in an ornate room decorated with patterned walls and arches. The central figure sits behind a table covered with a lace cloth, with an open book in front, while the other four are seated in chairs facing each other in pairs. The room features luxurious chairs, patterned carpet, and elaborate wall designs, suggesting a formal or ceremonial gathering, possibly in a religious or cultural setting.

Witness

A revered small-town imam faces a crisis of faith when he must choose between upholding the values of his mosque or protecting the safety and spiritual belonging of a trans man congregant.

A child in a blue and yellow dress jumps rope outside a rustic building.

With Grace

Grace dreams big, but will she and her family weather the storm?

Who in the Hell is Regina Jones?

From teenage mother in 1965 Watts through the birth of Soul Newspaper, 80-year-old Regina Jones revisits the trail she blazed, confronting a past she thought she'd left dead and buried. Jones tells a story of the invisible labor, the turmoil, struggle, and the joy of a modern-day Black woman.

A person holds a black-and-white photo of a woman with a serious expression and shoulder-length hair.

Vivien’s Wild Ride

After a long career in cinema, film editor Vivien Hillgrove starts losing her sight, forcing her to reexamine past traumas and relationships, and to reinvent herself and her art.

Person with sunglasses looks out from a car window, reflecting urban landscape.

The Shadow Scholars

Tens of thousands of young and well-educated Kenyans are hired online by undergraduates and doctoral students at Western universities to write their essays and theses, in a multi-billion dollar underground industry. Oxford professor Patricia Kingori embarks on a search for these ‘shadow scholars.’

A person wearing a white headscarf with handwritten blue text sits among others in a solemn gathering.

The Stolen

After a brutal dictatorship takes over Argentina, grandmothers band together to search for their missing grandchildren.