Physical & Mental Health & Addiction
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Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
A film by Alice Elliott
Two remarkable advocates for people with disabilities, Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy, met four decades ago and vowed to fight for independent lives.
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Carved from the Heart
A film by Ellen Frankenstein
Carved from the Heart intertwines the process of carving and erecting the Healing Heart totem pole with the participants' stories of personal loss, grief, substance abuse, suicide and violence.
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Children Of War
NEW! A film by Bryan Single
A group of former child soldiers undergo a remarkable journey of trauma therapy, emotional healing, and homecoming.
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The Choice of a Lifetime: Returning From the Brink of Suicide
A film by Nila Bogue
Transforming suicidal despair into the will to live
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Downpour Resurfacing
A film by Frances Nkara
Poet, meditation teacher, and somatics pioneer Dr. Robert Hall opens his own story of child sexual and physical abuse and conveys how he transformed their repercussions into a life of confidence and peace.
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Drunks
NEW! A film by Peter Cohn
The groundbreaking feature film about Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Eating Alaska
A film by Ellen Frankenstein
A wry search for the "right thing" to eat
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Foo Foo Dust
A film by Gina Levy
The award-winning "Foo-Foo Dust" explores the relationship between a crack-addicted prostitute and her junkie son living together in one room in San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
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Girl Trouble
A film by Lexi Leban & Lidia Szajko
The compelling stories of three girls entangled in San Francisco's juvenile justice system. The film documents the girls' successes and setbacks and exposes a failing juvenile justice system.
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Homeless in Paradise
A film by Chuck Braverman
The intimate profile of four homeless people.
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It Happens To Us
A film by Amalie R. Rothschild
The classic film plea for women's right to choose
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I'm Just Anneke
NEW! A film by Jonathan Skurnik
A family accepts their gender nonconforming child just as she is.
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Jumping Off Bridges
A film by Stacy Schoolfield
A narrative portrait of a family's struggle through depression and the aftermath of suicide. |
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The Last to Know
A film by Bonnie Friedman
The ground breaking film on alcoholism, prescription drug abuse and women.
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Let's Get Real
A film by Debra Chasnoff
An in-depth look at name-calling and bullying in middle schools today, told entirely from a youth perspective.
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The Most Distant Places
A film by Mike Seely
Dr. Edgar Rodas has dedicated his life to improving the health conditions for underprivileged communities in his native Ecuador, and Cinterandes is his visionary mobile hospital and rural health care project.
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Never Enough
NEW! A film by Kelly Anderson & Tami Gold
Do you own your stuff or does it own you?
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One + One
A film by Leo Chiang
A powerful film about serodiscordant couples (of mixed HIV status) living with HIV and AIDS.
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Power and Control
A film by Peter Cohn
"Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America" is a comprehensive and timely exploration of the shocking persistence of domestic violence in our society.
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A Revolving Door
A film by Chuck Braverman
This is the story of 33-year-old Tommy Lennon, struggling to deal with the dual diagnosis of mental illness and drug addiction. The film focuses on Tommy and his family's frustration, helplessness, courage and resilience.
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Saving Jackie
A film by Selena Burks-Rentschler
A recovering drug addict struggles to develop healthy relationships with her adult daughters.
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She's Just Growing Up, Dear
NEW! A film by Julia Tell
Coping with incest and abuse
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Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
A film by Debra Chasnoff
With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens.
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Teachings of the Tree People
A film by Katie Jennings
The trees were our first teachers.
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Twisted
A film by Laurel Chiten
The neurological disorder dystonia causes your body to twist in awkward, often painful postures. When you are locked inside your body, what can set you free? |
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Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens.
Subject: Women's Studies/Men's Studies
Still Doing It
Still Doing It explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white, these women, age 67-87, express with honesty and humor how they feel about sex in later years.
Subject: Women's Studies/Men's Studies
Special Circumstances In English and Spanish with subtitles in Spanish
Special Circumstances follows former political prisoner, Hector Salgado, back to Chile to confront his perpetrators.
Subject: Immigration & Border Studies
Sin País (Without Country)
With intimate access and striking imagery, Sin País (Without Country) explores one family's journey as they are separated by deportation.
Subject: Latin American Studies
