Op-Docs

In a traditional Catholic town, Alex develops his identity and defends his dreams.

In Burkina Faso, a diplomatic spouse spends her days within the boundaries of the embassy.

A filmmaker revisits his time in Cuba to tell a story he left unfinished.

It was 1970. Over 50 years later, these words serve as a dire warning.

When a director gets hold of an action movie he and his best friend made two decades ago, he reconsiders the risks they took as young men

Nearly 20 years after their deployment to Iraq, veterans grapple with their younger selves and try to make sense of the war.

Akiko Takakura survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This is her story, in her voice.

Two teenage Ukrainian refugees in Budapest express their pain and grief through art.

A mother and daughter find a connection in a place they least expected.

Three women reflect on the complexities of their relationships with their A.I. companions.

Two actors, partners at the time, discuss relationship conflicts between takes of a scripted scene.

As background extras, some nonplayer characters are programmed to do one thing forever: drudgery.

Dream Hampton explores water as a force of harmony and devastation as climate change affects her home city of Detroit.

A Northern Irish man’s relationship with a peregrine falcon reveals a personal history of torture during the Troubles.

Nikita Diakur tried to do a backflip, and injured himself. With A.I. and a six-core processor, his avatar learns to do one instead.

A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off heroin for the past six years.

Conversations with slaughterhouse workers, by the son of one, explore family and masculinity.

At the dawn of their teenage years, the bond between the twins Raphaël and Rémi begins to weaken. But during the summer, time seems to stand still.

Through reconstructions in a special effects studio, “Neighbour Abdi” embarks on a candid journey through Abdiwahab Ali’s personal history scarred by war.

Every week Raquel and Madeleine, two friends born 67 years apart, spend time together. Madeleine refuses to leave her retirement home, but Raquel finds a way to bring her on a road trip.

On Achill Island in Ireland, Cian hopes to spend the summer playing soccer with his friends. But his grandfather thinks it’s about time to pass down a family tradition.

S. Leo Chiang reflects on his relationship with Taiwan, the United States and China from the islands of Kinmen, just a few miles from mainland China.

The ecologist Karen Lips observed frogs for several years in Central America. She left briefly, and when she returned, the frogs were gone. She sets out to find them and encounters a horrible truth.

Nearly 13 years after his civil service in Senegal, Paul Drey questions his role as a volunteer in the German system of development aid.

Older crafters across Britain speak to how knitting can help us heal, even at our most broken.