#adoption exposes the hidden realities of the United States’ unregulated domestic infant adoption industry, unraveling the myths that frame adoption as a purely loving choice through the raw perspectives of relinquishing mothers, adoptive parents and social media.

Oakland theater students embody the children of Black Panther Party members through a powerful play—combining history, intergenerational conversations, and the prophetic poetry of Gil Scott-Heron to illuminate the often-overlooked role of women and children in liberation movements.

Billie, a trans elder, re-enacts her life and her role in American queer history as she prepares to enter the afterlife.

Following the death of her mother, a Filipina experiences visions of her mother, taking her on a cultural and emotional pilgrimage back to her roots.

Through an intimate portrait of the people who run a unique nonprofit emergency disability service in Berkeley, and members of the disability community fighting for adequate care to live independently, As You Choose is a perceptive exploration of how systemic underinvestment limits societal equality.

In a story that connects two centuries, Berkeley-based historian and artist, Barnali, spearheads a grassroots campaign to rename a street after Kala Bagai, an unsung South Asian woman who organized communities in California against intense racial discrimination in the early 1910s. In the process, Barnali discovers her own political power.

He was a top criminal defense who quit at the top of his game to follow his lifelong passion, to talk about baseball.

Queer photographer Jill Posener’s fearless compulsion to document provides us with intimate views of radical feminist London, Bay Area 90s lesbian culture, and contemporary unhoused East Bay communities. A lifelong rebel, she has always felt “at odds”, and now contemplates where she may fit for her final chapter.

An Iraq-veteran cyclist training for Vermont’s most grueling gravel race risks her closest relationships to come out, transition, and be her true self at age 51.

In 1969 San Francisco, a visitation from her long-dead Cherokee grandmother and a visit with her estranged Cherokee father ignites a Catholic housewife's passion for Native and women's justice.

This documentary film series is a deep dive into the life of The Committee, San Francisco's radical comedy troupe that introduced the counterculture of the 1960s to mainstream America, pioneered an artform, and helped shape modern American satire.

Counted Out investigates the biggest crises of our time through an unexpected lens: math.

An Indonesian boy and his mother bring Chinese takeout to a church potluck and pretend it’s a traditional family dish.

A Black Panther and a musician in his youth, Dawoud Bey has overcome a life-long struggle with severe hearing loss to challenge photographic stereotypes of American Blacks.

Dead Jeni is the vengeful avatar of the abandoned, broken, and bullied—and tonight, she hunts.

From a sheltered, artistic upbringing on Chicago’s Southside to the bright lights of Broadway — from the trauma of her cousin Emmett Till’s murder through decades of sweeping social change — Dr. Glory Van Scott chooses to live at the intersection of art and activism.

The inspiring story of the courageous scholar who challenged the economic establishment to question its belief in economic growth.

The Emerald Triangle explores the world’s favorite illegal drug, how it became legal, and its impact on our culture. Focusing on the heartland of cannabis, it tells the story of the original growers, how they survived everything… except legalization.

Even the Ocean Spit Him Out is a hand-drawn documentary animation in which a childhood Mission Model project becomes a site of reckoning—revealing Indigenous resistance, continuance, and survival in the face of the California genocide.

Fiddles on Fire explores the exploding popularity of fiddle music by following eight contemporary fiddlers whose excellence in their tradition-based fiddle styles has inspired audiences the world over.

How do we heal ourselves in the natural world? The necessity to nurture the earth and understand the power our natural world holds to heal us, as well as the capacity (and urgent necessity) we hold to sustain our planet... this is the journey into FOOLS’ PARADISE (lost?).

Fossil Foolish (working title) tells the story of two North American nations giving lip service to a clean energy transition while simultaneously ramping up fossil fuel exploitation.

Frightwig! is the untold story of the feminist punk band that helped spark riot grrrl and grunge—and they're still shaking the stage. Raw, rebellious, and decades ahead of their time, Frightwig is a fierce reminder that real change always makes noise.

From Sea to Shining Sea tells the fascinating story of Katharine Lee Bates, poet, professor, and progressive advocate; an unsung hero best known for authoring America the Beautiful who was deeply committed to the beauty and principles of our country.

A one-hour portrait film of James Cahill, who transformed the way the world looks at Chinese and Japanese art.

Two young boys experience the nuanced difficulties of racism when one of them enters a foster home.

By delegating the intimate aspects death and dying, we relinquish an essential part of what makes us human. What transformational wisdom is accessed when we dare to engage tangibly with mortality again?

An Ausländer in Berlin enacts morbid revenge against a bad roommate, and unwittingly summons a demon from hell.

Under the increasingly oppressive social environment in China, queer film festival curator "Xiao Ma" is forced to struggle amidst censorship and fear. Before ultimately choosing to leave this land, he must confront the conflicts and dilemmas tearing him between identity, ideals, and reality.

Lit with Punjabi folk music, poetry, and dance, we immerse in the artistic journey of Bay Area choreographer Joti Singh—re-imagining and reclaiming her great-grandfather’s legacy and the Bay Area-based Ghadar revolutionaries, who battled racist laws and British rule in India, expressed through diasporic voices of those preserving this lost history.