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As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

At the dinner table sits a white family: the father (a police officer), a mother and their two sons—a teenager and his younger brother. The teenager has an African-American friend, J.B., whom he wants to hang out with, but his father doesn’t want him leaving the house to meet up with J.B.—and especially not at night. “I want to keep you from bad situations,” the father explains to his son—an eerie foretelling, but more important, indicative of the violence that this white man associates with all black boys, even J.B., a black boy he knows personally and considers to be “a good kid.”

One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows-Primo Levi. The Oscar®-winning Helen Mirren will introduce audiences to Anne Frank's story through the words in her diary. The set will be her room in the secret refuge in Amsterdam, reconstructed in every detail by set designers from the Piccolo Theatre in Milan. Anne Frank this year would have been 90 years old. Anne's story is intertwined with that of five Holocaust survivors, teenage girls just like her, with the same ideals, the same desire to live: Arianna Szörenyi, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, Helga Weiss and sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci. Their testimonies alternate with those of their children and grandchildren.

What's done in the dark, is always brought to the light. A weekend trip for four girlfriends turns deadly after secrets are revealed. Their lives are forever changed and the women are left to question if their friendships were ever real, or just for clout.

Jojo, a 17-year-old girl from Bangkok, is about to graduate from high school. After her friend Q reveals a secret to her, the two girls grow close and spend all their time together. Jojo's father wholeheartedly approves of the friendship and is just glad that Jojo is not going on any dates with boys.

C3 is an Evangelical church that opened in Toronto in 2013, quickly amassing a large following amongst the city’s young, hip and tattooed. #BLESSED offers an intimate look inside this fast-growing millennial church and follows the process of selling salvation in the 21st century as Pastor Sam and his team grow the church from two locations to three, living out their mission to save as many Torontonian souls as possible.

In this documentary, we follow five children who are threatened with deportation or have already been deported due to a broken children's pardon system. There are 400 other children in the Netherlands in the same situation. These are children of migrants/refugees who were born here or have lived here for more than five years. They suffer proven psychological damage if they are deported to their country of origin (or that of their parents). Therefore: a Children's Pardon that does work.

Set in a funhouse-mirror reflection of our world, #BOSSBABE follows Sofi, the wannabe ringleader of her local branch of Bevlon—a girlpower makeup brand run by a man. Desperate to climb the ranks, Sofi throws a recruitment party for a few girlfriends. But, when one of her guests drops dead (attention-seeker, much!) Sofi uses it as an opportunity to work her way to the top of the pack. Together, the girlbosses must unravel the mystery of the mysterious death and decide what matters more—their friendship or their downline.

A gang of kids tries to avoid boredom in this meditative, observational and ultimately tragic short film. #BURNING uses beautiful photography and quiet drama to convey the ennui of contemporary youth.

Twelve young filmmakers made this the guiding principle of the featured documentary film. They mingle amongst the demonstrators on Independence Square and in the Donetsk region, shooting a "Chronicle of Civil Protest", a kaleidoscope of voices, opinions and events which bears witness to the circumstances surrounding solidarity and struggle. The viewer observes the Ukrainians at first hand, experiencing how a hard-pressed society becomes more militant and slides ever deeper into the abyss of civil war.

Somebody dies like every five minutes.

After winning a Regional Swimming Competition, proud and skilled swimmer Mari faces unexpected online criticism about her dark skin, forcing her to confront societal beauty standards and find the strength to embrace her true identity as she navigates the intersection of passion, prejudice, and self-discovery.

A documentary about Margaret Cho's homeless outreach campaign inspired by the philanthropy of Robin Williams. After the death of her friend Robin Williams, Margaret Cho took to the streets of San Francisco with the mantra "Don't grieve Robin, BE Robin." What started as Margaret busking on the corner with a bag of socks and a guitar case, rapidly turned into hundreds of musicians, comedians, and homeless advocates spreading food, clothes, money, and awareness in an amazing humanitarian street theater experience. The film that captured these events, is not only entertaining, but deeply moving and above all else inspiring.

How do you #BeYou when you lose a part of you? Actors Anthony Carrigan and Jannica Olin both have Alopecia. They lost all their body hair at different times in their lives and chose to embrace what now makes them unique and perfectly imperfect.

In this CNN Special Report, we discover what it means to be 13 in the age of social media. Most adolescents with access to smart phones are living their social lives online as much as they do face-to-face. Adults worry that teens are hooked on social media, but most have no idea what teens are actually doing online. Anderson Cooper hosts this acclaimed special.

It is about Eva a girl that leaves everything behind, a deep friendship with her friend Anna and her betrayed love for Teo, to lose herself into light. To get away from her skin and become perfect so that she will be loved by Teo.

Six sketches, featuring off-screen human voices and on-screen chimpanzees in men's clothing, illustrating six aspects of movie making: script writing, using a camera, working in a darkroom, editing, art and animation, and shooting a scene with special attention to sound. The screen goes black between each sketch. The narration is straightforward with the chimps providing comic, contradicting subtexts.

The #BinaryGenderNorm has agency and impacts all aspects of our life, producing discrimination and inequality.

This documentary explores the origins of this influential movement and profiles many of its members who protest for profound change.

A Neukölln clan boss becomes a climate activist. A gender doll inventor who fulfills her most secret wishes with a fake gun and a new girlfriend in Grunewald. A balcony beekeeper whose bee colony is on speed. And in the middle of it all, a fisherman who wants to conjure up sustainable snacks from invasive swamp crabs. What unites them all? A hot summer in the capital - and waiting for the rain!

The poetic affirmation of #BlackWomensLivesMatter shows us how to transform systemic devaluation.

In this short-form documentary, queer artist-filmmaker Shikeith Cathey tackles intersectional identity, asking a group of gay and straight interviewees "When did you become a black man?" Facing away from the camera, and often shirtless, the video's nine subjects are filmed in black and white as they contend with their self-conceptions of masculinity, sexuality, and race.

Two friends with too much predisposition to scour the futilities of social media find themselves drawn into a confrontation that will force them to fight for their lives.