Faya Dayi
A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity – khat, a euphoria-inducing plant – holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures intimate moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife.
Episodes
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Faya Dayi
S35 E6 - 1h 52m
A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity – khat, a euphoria-inducing plant – holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures intimate moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife.
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President
S35 E5 - 1h 52m
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?
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Love & Stuff
S35 E7 - 1h 17m
“How do you live without your mother?” Filmmaker Judith Helfand asks this unbearable question twice: as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother, and as an “old new mom,” single parenting her much-longed-for adopted baby girl. With footage from 25 years of first-person filmmaking, shiva babka and 63 boxes of dead parents’ “stuff,” the film asks: what do we really need to leave our children?
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He's My Brother
S35 E4 - 52m 15s
Christine's brother Peter experiences his world through touch, smell, and taste. Now 30 years old, Peter's family is having trouble finding the proper care for his multiple disabilities. Told through Christine's eyes, He's My Brother explores how the family works to assure him a dignified life once the parents are gone -- and Christine's uncertainties about one day becoming his primary caregiver.
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Winter's Yearning
S35 E3 - 52m 46s
In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. With the promise of economic renewal, Winter's Yearning follows the lives of the area’s loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty.
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Wuhan Wuhan
S35 E1 - 1h 24m
With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.
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Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
S35 E2 - 54m 32s
Three communities intersect, sharing histories of forced removal – Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Manzanar WWII concentration camp, Native Americans who were forced from these lands, and ranchers turned environmentalists, who were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power. How do they come together in the present moment to defend their land and water from Los Angeles?
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Who Killed Vincent Chin?
S35 E201 - 1h 23m
On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.
Extras + Features
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Trailer | Who Killed Vincent Chin?
S35 E201 - 2m 55s
On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American engineer, with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.
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Trailer | Let the Little Light Shine
S35 E13 - 1m 58s
National Teachers Academy (NTA) is considered a beacon for Black children: a top-ranked, high-performing elementary school in the fastest growing neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. As the neighborhood gentrifies, a wealthy parents’ group seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. How will NTA's community fight to save their beloved institution?
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Trailer | Accepted
S35 E10 - 1m 45s
Accepted follows four high school students at T.M. Landry, a prep school in Louisiana known for its viral videos of seniors being accepted to the Ivy Leagues, and sending 100% of its graduates to college. But an explosive NY Times article exposes the controversial methods of its dynamic founder -- and the fiction of higher education's promise.
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Trailer | The Last Out
S35 E9 - 2m 9s
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their difficult journey, from multi-step immigration obstacles and learning English to the broken promises and dubious motives of agents.
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Trailer | Delikado
S35 E8 - 3m 11s
Palawan is a tropical island paradise and one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they brave violence, death threats and murder while trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ last ecological frontier.
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Trailer | Faya Dayi
S35 E6 - 2m 7s
A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity – khat, a euphoria-inducing plant – holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures intimate moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife.
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Trailer | President
S35 E5 - 2m 24s
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?
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Trailer | He's My Brother
S35 E4 - 1m 34s
Christine's brother Peter experiences his world through touch, smell, and taste. Now 30 years old, Peter's family is having trouble finding the proper care for his multiple disabilities. Told through Christine's eyes, He's My Brother explores how the family works to assure him a dignified life once the parents are gone -- and Christine's uncertainties about one day becoming his primary caregiver.
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Trailer | Winter's Yearning
S35 E3 - 2m 27s
In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. With the promise of economic renewal, Winter's Yearning follows the lives of the area’s loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty.
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Trailer | Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
S35 E2 - 2m
Three communities intersect, sharing histories of forced removal – Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Manzanar WWII concentration camp, Native Americans who were forced from these lands, and ranchers turned environmentalists, who were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power. How do they come together in the present moment to defend their land and water from Los Angeles?
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Trailer | Wuhan Wuhan
S35 E1 - 2m
With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.
Schedule
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Delikado
Monday
Sep 26
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Delikado
Tuesday
Sep 27
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Delikado
Wednesday
Sep 28
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Delikado
Thursday
Sep 29
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Delikado
Thursday
Sep 29
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Delikado
Saturday
Oct 1
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Delikado
Saturday
Oct 1
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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La Casa de Mama Icha
Saturday
Oct 1
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Decades after moving to the U.S. to help care for her grandchildren, Mama Icha returns to her hometown of Mompox, Colombia. -
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Delikado
Sunday
Oct 2
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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La Casa de Mama Icha
Sunday
Oct 2
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Decades after moving to the U.S. to help care for her grandchildren, Mama Icha returns to her hometown of Mompox, Colombia. -
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The Last Out
Monday
Oct 3
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their Major League dreams. -
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The Infiltrators
Wednesday
Oct 5
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two young immigrants, members of a group of radical Dreamers, are arrested by Border Patrol and put in a detention center. -
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The Last Out
Wednesday
Oct 5
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their Major League dreams. -
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The Infiltrators
Thursday
Oct 6
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two young immigrants, members of a group of radical Dreamers, are arrested by Border Patrol and put in a detention center. -
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The Last Out
Thursday
Oct 6
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their Major League dreams. -
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The Infiltrators
Thursday
Oct 6
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two young immigrants, members of a group of radical Dreamers, are arrested by Border Patrol and put in a detention center. -
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POV
The Last Out
Thursday
Oct 6
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their Major League dreams. -
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The Last Out
Saturday
Oct 8
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their Major League dreams. -
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The Song of the Butterflies
Saturday
Oct 8
1 Hour
Indigenous painter Rember Yahuarcani returns home to his Amazonian community to visit his parents and discovers the importance of the stories of his ancestors. -
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The Last Out
Saturday
Oct 8
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their Major League dreams.
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