Thoughtful Movies

Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to...

A portrait of film actor Kari Väänänen. Väänänen talks openly about his work and himself. Väänänen's...

A teenage girl and her boyfriend set off on an eventful road trip up the coast of California hoping to figure out the meaning of love and life.

Over the last three decades, science has been advancing our understanding of stress: how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make...

In the shimmering heat of Brazil, 13-year-old Irene discovers a dark secret her father's been hiding: he has another family and even another daughter...

Trinchas and his gang of graffiti taggers risk their lives climbing tall buildings to sign their names up there. When he falls for Valéria -...

When a children's entertainer finds that a video of him masturbating has gone viral online, his life is thrown into chaos. Amid the fierce public...

In a conservative Norwegian town, Nora and Emily conceal their love, fearing the repercussions from Nora's strict father. A clandestine meeting at a...

A poetic retelling of the experiences of Joseph Murakami, a fourteen-year-old boy from Darwin, who is summarily rounded up and interned by his...

Through analog memories, faded photographs, and her golden retriever Solune, Clara revisits the last summer on the Atlantic coast to try to decipher...

Originally released in 2004, later re-released in 2006 on YouTube, Unforgotten tells the story of a man who's on the threshold of the afterlife, lost...

Kintsugi is a 16th century process of mending broken shards of pottery. Visual artist Mako Fujimura and Kintsugi Maker Kunio Nakamura, invite us to...

A compelling British documentary following ten amateur athletes as they train for and compete in Ironman 70.3 Swansea. With themes of resilience,...

A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his...

Zia Mohyeddin, Pakistan's most venerated actor, devotes his final years to resurrecting interest in Urdu poetry and passing it on to a new generation...

An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is a serial killer.

Levi Dante is a worm who lives in the left ventricle of the heart - the only world he has ever known. One day he unexpectedly gets ejected out and...

After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.

A young couple struggling with infertility seeks the aide of a healer with a promised remedy, while unknown forces also work to provide them with...