Bullfighting is a dangerous affair, every time a matador gets into the ring with a bull he risks his life, and no one knows this better than Antonio Barrera. He holds the title as being “Most Gored Bullfighter in History” 23 times he has been gored, …Read more

By never staying still, dodging the inevitable becomes routine. Grief, movement, love, confusion are some of the elements that proliferate in this gorgeous film by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, a first time filmmaker who also wrote, and stars in the film. Peo …Read more

Ryan Ferguson was 20 years old when he was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit. Ryan’s father Bill refused to accept this verdict, so from the moment Ryan was convicted, Bill fought tirelessly to prove his son’s innocence. It all began when in 200 …Read more

In the film A Courtship, director Amy Kohn tells of the phenomenon called “courtship” through Kelly’s story. Kelly (33) had her heart broken in college and vowed never to go through such pain again. This is when she found out about courtship, a pract …Read more

In Palio director Cosima Spender highlights the unbreakable bond between the Palio and her home—Siena, Italy. The Palio is a horse race that was first run in 1238, and so the race is so steeped in history that it has become the city’s crowning tradit …Read more

Toto (10), Andreea (14), and Ana (17) live in a filthy apartment with no appliances or running water. Their mother was arrested for drug offenses and the door is still damaged from when the police broke it down; the siblings talk endlessly about when …Read more

When Ryan and Amy Green found out their son Joel had a brain tumor they were devastated. But they decided to take an optimistic and proactive approach—to live everyday as if Joel was not sick. However it wasn’t quite as simple as simply “thinking pos …Read more

Filmed over three years, the filmmakers of Democrats were given unprecedented access into a unique governmental process in Zimbabwe. Following the leaders of two opposing parties as they crossed the country campaigning, listening to the voices of the …Read more

In 2005 at age thirty, filmmaker Patrick O’Brien’s leg started shaking and wouldn’t stop. Soon after he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). When he was told he had between 2–5 years to live he decided to film his descent into the …Read more

In The Atlantic’s April 2015 issue, the cover story by Jeffery Goldberg asks, “Is it Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?” the author discusses how the influx population of Muslims to France is largely sequestered to the suburbs, where they are unemplo …Read more