AFI Docs: Features

She's beautiful, artistic, loved and can't stand to be alive. 32 PILLS traces the fascinating life and mental illness of my sister, New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and my struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.

A hidden-camera video involving a fake prostitute threatens to destroy ACORN, America's largest grassroots anti-poverty organization. World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival.

A documentary portrait of Brazilian ballet star Marcelo Gomes.

A terrifying look at the corruption that's destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.

A famous television personality struggles to restore science to its rightful place in a world hostile to evidence and reason.

Ecstatic ritual, danger and the absolute beauty of fireworks.

A bunch of indian riders play being demigods defying any logic: They drive bikes and cars around on the walls of a wooden cylinder. The short documentary "Riders of the Well of Death", a personal project by Erik Morales produced by CANADA and Early Man Films, brings us to an unknown world full of danger and beauty.

A blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made to never fight again. Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.

The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012.

Chico has dedicated his whole life to CINE SAO PAULO. The building, inherited from his father, is now badly deteriorated. Refurbish it, in order to make the old movie theater get back to work, becomes his great obsession.

City Of Ghosts folgt dem Weg der Gruppe „Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently“, einer Ansammlung von anonymen Aktivisten, die sich zusammentaten, als ihr Heimatland 2014 von ISIS-Terroristen übernommen wurde.

An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.

In the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.

Manolo and his donkey Gorrión plan a journey to the West.

DRIES - an intimate Portrait of the Fashion Designer Dries Van Noten. This film offers an insight into the life, mind and creative heart of a Master Fashion Designer who, for more than 25 years, has remained independent in a landscape of fashion consolidation and globalization. Reiner Holzemer follows him for one year and witnesses the creation of four collections.

Ein immersives Erleben der Sonora-Wüste zwischen Mexiko und den Vereinigten Staaten.

Es ist eine der größten Errungenschaften der Menschheit. Mehr als 12 Milliarden Meilen entfernt verlässt ein winziges Raumschiff unser Sonnensystem und betritt die Leere des tiefen Weltraums - das erste von Menschen geschaffene Objekt, das dies jemals getan hat.

A junior high school student sees her chances of a better future jeopardized after she gets in a fight and is expelled.

THE FORCE goes inside an embattled urban police department struggling to rebuild trust in one of America's most violent yet promising cities.

A black high school guidance counselor, whose father was murdered while growing up in a dangerous inner-city neighborhood, is on a mission to save the lives of young black men who share his story. A drill sergeant with a heart, he molds them into a nationally recognized 'step' team and a brotherhood that bonds them for life.

"Ein verträumtes Mädchen versucht das Geheimnis des sagenumwobenen ""Enzilochs"" zu ergründen - einer tiefen Felsschlucht, die alle, die sie betreten, in Geister verwandeln soll."

A documentary about the mysterious death of fringe political filmmaker David Crowley, who was found dead alongside members of his family in their suburban Minnesota home in January of 2015.

Tasos Pafralides and his sister Evdokia run a business selling heating oil to their fellow citizens in Thessaloniki. With the crisis ever deepening, fewer and fewer Greeks can afford to buy oil and keep themselves warm. Therefore Tasos and Evdokia face a sharp dilemma every day: should they really refuse heating oil to people who don't have the money, leaving them in the cold? As their customers struggle to make ends meet, Tasos and Evdokia struggle to keep their business going. In their daily encounters and in the whole of Greek society, relationships between the people are at stake. How warm or cold can relationships between people be when a deep crisis forces everyone to fend for themselves?

A group of friends with Down Syndrome have been attending the same school for 40 years, they have passed all the courses, all the teachers and, even their parents who were with them, are now gone. They must now fight to get a better job, to make money like any other person, to learn to take care of themselves and to make it to their 50's. No one looks at them as children. They will do everything to prevent anyone from interfering with their adult dreams.

An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.