Barbara Miller’s feature documentary embarks on a journey to discover the remaining obstacles that stand in the way of female sexuality in the 21st century. Female Pleasure portrays five courageous, smart, and self-determined women, breaking the silence imposed by their archaic-patriarch societies and religious communities.

Though they each came to New York City from different parts of the world, Aber, Shamsi, Kobir, Debbie, and Mohamed share a common identity as Muslim Americans. In the age of Trump, they must also confront the reality of heightened Islamophobia. Tracking their experiences from the beginning of the Muslim ban to the Supreme Court’s decision, Adam Zucker offers a timely film about what it means to be both a proud American and a devout Muslim.

Take a verité look at the streets of Baltimore in the throes of an unprecedented three-year stretch of violence, with distrust of the police at an all-time high. As neighborhoods hang in the balance, we follow along with the compassionate police officers, determined community organizers, and young city councilman all working together on fresh and innovative solutions to stem the tide of violence and police brutality. Charm City is vitally relevant for all cities struggling on these fronts, providing a potential pathway toward healing.

In the summer of 1995, Chicago experienced an unthinkable disaster, when extremely high humidity and a layer of heat-retaining pollution drove the heat index up to more than 126 degrees. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand looks tells the story of this deadly heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American.

A shocking but untold piece of American urban history, filmmakers Gretchen Hildebran and Vivian Vásquez chronicle a series of South Bronx fires that raged throughout the 1970s. Left unprotected by the city government, nearly a quarter-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multiethnic neighborhood burned to the ground.

Every day brings new challenges for those of us coping with wellness issues such as physical and mental disabilities, addiction, food insecurity, and homelessness. The subjects in this group of short films do what’s necessary to get by.

In the year 2000, mass protests led by people living with HIV in Durban, South Africa, radically transformed the global debate on human rights in health, giving rise to a series of significant advances in public health for vulnerable and marginalized people the world over. Now, two decades later, many of these hard-won gains are in severe jeopardy, putting tens of millions of lives at risk.

The cost of college is forcing students to make choices that put eating regular meals and their education at odds. Director Geeta Gandbhir and executive producer Soledad O’Brien’s poignant film follows four college students as they navigate food insecurity in their attempt to change their lives for the better.

In Mexico City, the government operates fewer than 45 emergency ambulances for a population of 9 million. This has spawned an underground industry of for-profit ambulances often run by people with little or no training or certification. An exception in this ethically fraught, cutthroat industry, the Ochoa family struggles to keep their financial needs from jeopardizing the people in their care. When a crackdown by corrupt police pushes the family into greater hardship, they face increasing moral dilemmas even as they continue providing essential emergency medical services.

Underscoring the interconnectivity between self-identity and one’s emotional wellbeing, this collection of short films explores diverse themes of self-love, self-loathing, and self-hood.

Explore opposing viewpoints of ethnic pride and racial animus in this collection of timely short films that profile the complexities of racial identity and the implications of intolerance.

Native American survivors of sexual assault fight for tribal sovereignty in order to end the rape of Indigenous women against the backdrop of an ongoing legacy of violent colonization.

Women are generally socialized to put the needs of others before themselves. These short stories center women’s sexual health and self-healing as a priority for a healthy community.