A stimulant with major cultural significance, the khat leaf is also Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop. Weaving together lives shaped by its trade, this dreamy docudrama captures the spirit of a young generation longing for a different future overseas.

This experimental essay resurrects the political imagination of the iconic deaf-blind author Helen Keller, a passionate socialist and disability rights advocate whose radical views, while largely suppressed or sanitized over the years, remain remarkably pertinent today.

West African revolutionary Omar Blondin Diop, known as the only real Marxist activist in Jean-Luc Godard's film La Chinoise, gets a vibrant tribute in this reimagining of the 1967 classic that explores the complex current relations between China and Africa.

A selection of short films from our Markers program that push the boundaries of the documentary form.

On a journey through the periphery of Addis Ababa, engrossing architectural and landscape images provide the backdrop to a multi-voiced narrative that reveals rapid urbanization, socioeconomic disparity and the seeds of civil war.

In this gorgeous cinematic letter from the director to her hometown of Wuhan, ordinary human activities unfold against an evolving urban landscape, sculpted by nature and rising infrastructure, composing a series of surprising and poetic set pieces.

Intimate in scope yet epic in scale, this meditative Sundance Award–winning essay invites us to ponder how our addiction to technology may end up changing the social fabric of humanity forever.

Blending documentary with fiction and poetry, a young female guard in an overcrowded Madagascar prison daydreams of her father, a murderer who abandoned her as a child. But when a new inmate brings news of him, her daydreams turn to nightmares.