Starr (con due erre) è una sedicenne con due identità ben distinte: a scuola è la studentessa modello che si mescola allegramente ai compagni benestanti e caucasici; a casa, nel quartiere all black di Garden Heights, torna ad essere la ragazzina cresciuta fra barbeque e lezioni di sopravvivenza - nel suo caso impartite dal padre, Maverick, che attinge il suo decalogo dal codice delle Pantere Nere. In particolare papà insegna ai suoi tre figli come comportarsi nel caso che un poliziotto li fermi mentre sono in macchina, come succede spesso - e spesso senza una buona ragione - agli afroamericani negli "evoluti" Stati Uniti. Quando un poliziotto bianco ferma l'auto in cui Starr sta chiacchierando con un amico di infanzia la ragazza sa dunque esattamente come comportarsi, il ragazzo invece compie l'errore fatale di estrarre una spazzola per capelli che il poliziotto scambia per un'arma, aprendo il fuoco.
Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie about life that gets sideswiped in the supermarket parking lot by a funny movie about death. It’s a story about family, loss, secrets, letting go, and starting anew.
A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.
The physician and professor Herman Lundborg headed the world’s first state racial biology institute in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1922 to ’35. He was obsessed by the threat of racial mixing between Sámi, Finns and Swedes in the north. On his travels, he is drawn to a woman of Finnish-Sámi descent, and has a child with her.
An examination of the connection between relentless government intervention since colonisation to the trauma and disadvantage experiences by Indigenous Australians - the two key drivers of incarceration.
This short 19-minute documentary is an intimate and moving exploration of the profound and far-reaching impact of surveillance on Muslim American individuals and communities. Premiering at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, WATCHED is told through the personal experience of two women, both coming of age in New York. The film charts the devastating toll of surveillance and reveals the scars it leaves behind.
Profiled is a feature length documentary that knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latin unarmed youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Driven by anger when their demands for justice are ignored the women transition from grieving parents to activists participating in the grass roots movement now spreading across the country since the much-publicized deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.