Mirror Never Lies, The

According to Bajo tribal folklore, a ritual mirror can display an image of a missing fisherman who will return from the sea. Twelve-year-old Pakis clings to this mirror, searching for […]

Village Called Versailles, A

In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed […]

Can’t Stop the Water

For 170 years, a Native American Cajun community has occupied a tiny island deep in the bayous of south Louisiana called Isle de Jean Charles. They have fished, hunted and […]

Sand Fishers

The Bozos in the West African nation of Mali have been renowned for many generations for their skill in the art of fishing. They know the waters of the Niger […]

People of a Feather

Travel through time into the world of the Inuit on the isolated Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay in a film capturing the peril that the Sanikiluaq people are facing due […]

Man Who Pants Trees, The

Many people think that the story about a man who plants trees is fictional. Actually, this man really exists. His name is Ernest Vunan and he lives in misty mountains […]

Man Who Stopped the Desert, The

Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate African peasant farmer, has transformed the lives of thousands of people across the Sahel, a bleak land between the Sahara desert and the wet forest of […]

Lost Thing, The

This animated fable tells the story of a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle tops at the beach. Realizing it is lost, he tries to find […]

Little Mole, The

Enjoy an afternoon with the family watching the Czech classic animated films of Zdeněk Miler, a renowned Czech animator, who created Krtek (Little Mole) in the 1950s. The mole became […]

Life Size Memories

Two photojournalists bring a large format camera to Southeast Asia to portray Asian elephants living in captivity and to record their biographies. Ten years earlier, in 1999, they spent months […]