Season 36
Fire Through Dry Grass paints a human-scale portrait of the devastation inflicted upon American nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, especially those housing people of color, immigrants, and formerly incarcerated people. It’s an insider’s story that needs to be told before the white-washed narrative is put down.
At MIT, an alum follows four African students striving to become change agents for home.
An intimate look behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the US.
In this reflection on aging and transformation, a woman with dementia reinvents herself.
Uýra is a trans-indigenous artist on a journey of self-discovery in the Amazon forest.
After 20 years in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home.
A teenage girl escapes a genocide and makes a meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom.
A Hmong girl living in rural Northern Vietnam is caught between tradition and change.
An intimate view of a woman with ALS and a family pushed to its breaking point.
In a world of fake news, journalist Ravish Kumar stands his ground. Will his show survive?
A Black Muslim mother vows to save all the other Black sons, on both sides of the gun.
Immigrant dreams and generational divides collide against LA's complex racial landscape.
By the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine, social workers create a sanctuary for kids in limbo.
A burial site containing thousands of once enslaved Africans is discovered on St. Helena.
A poetic quest in coastal South Carolina unearths Black inheritance amidst a violent past.