Op-Docs

In “Weekend Visits,” an incarcerated woman spends a day with her child at an extended visitation house in Virginia.

By Pete Quandt

After appearing on “Maury” 25 years ago, a singer without legs questions why she’s seen as inspirational in “View From the Floor.”

By Megan Griffiths and Mindie Lind

Two preteen girls promote fashion and beauty products to thousands of online fans from their rural Alabama home in “Christmas, Every Day.”

By Faye Tsakas

Inspired by the movement for women’s rights in Iran, Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown to start her own resistance in “A Move.”

By Elahe Esmaili

A look into the delicate balance between teamwork, discipline and personal growth in the Oscar-nominated “Instruments of a Beating Heart.”

By Ema Ryan Yamazaki

During the Day of the Dead, the cempasúchil, or marigold, is believed to guide spirits back home. In Mexico City, people who lost a loved one to Covid use the flower to honor their dead.

By César Martínez Barba

How do you cope when an abusive family member becomes terminally ill?

By Frøydis Fossli Moe

There’s a natural world trapped within our cities.

By Karsten Wall

An 86-year-old woman’s decision to end her life raises complex questions about life and death for a filmmaker.

By Guillermo F. Flórez

In this animated short film, women who work in the sex trade in Wales anonymously share their experiences.

By John Robert Lee

Michael February, a boundary-breaking surfer and the first Black South African on the World Surf League Championship Tour, embarks on a transformative journey.

By Sandra Winther and Michael February

In Memphis, a doctor and a volunteer driver contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

By Lynne Sachs

In this short film, the visual artist Nouf Aljowaysir examines a question she’s struggled with since childhood.

By Nouf Aljowaysir

In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island.

By Phil Buehler and Steve Siegel

A long-due conversation between a man and his mother sends the two of them on a quest for acceptance and love.

By Shuli Huang

In the 1970s, the filmmakers Claudia Weill and Eli Noyes interviewed New Yorkers across the city about their unwanted roommates: roaches.

By Claudia Weill and Eli Noyes

In the midst of a political and environmental dispute between the Czech Republic and Poland over a coal mine, a potato salad contest is held in a small border town.

By Piotr Jasiński

Rob C., a firefighter in Idaho, undergoes psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in an attempt to address his PTSD.

By Brandon Kapelow

Why would a U.F.O. crash in Roswell, N. M., of all places? In 1994, the filmmaker Bill Brown set out on a road trip to explore the story from 1947.

By Bill Brown

Louis Johnson, the choreographer of “The Wiz,” could “outdance anyone.” Watch two rarely seen performances here.

By Richard Preston and Romaissaa Benzizoune

Both a ceremonial custom and a dynamic sport, lion dancing is a cultural practice that spans generations and continents.

By David Ma

After the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, loved ones of the deceased artist and political prisoner San Zaw Htway wrote him letters as an act of remembrance and hope.

By Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat

In this short film, Congolese artworks voice the poet and author Aimé Césaire’s words: “Colonization is thingification.”

By Matthias De Groof

Crafters across Britain speak to how knitting can help us heal, even at our most broken.

By Samantha Moore

Nearly 13 years after his civil service in Senegal, Paul Drey questions his role as a volunteer in the German system of development aid.

By Paul Drey

Mysterious deaths have occurred all over the planet and followed a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us?

By Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl and Max Monch

S. Leo Chiang reflects on his relationship with Taiwan, the United States and China from the islands of Kinmen, just a few miles from mainland China.

By S. Leo Chiang

On Achill Island in Ireland, Cian hopes to spend the summer playing soccer with his friends. But his grandfather thinks it’s about time to pass down a family tradition.

By Matthias Joulaud and Lucien Roux

Every week Raquel and Madeleine, two friends born 67 years apart, hang out. Madeleine refuses to leave the retirement home, but Raquel finds a way to bring her on a road trip.

By Raquel Sancinetti

Through reconstructions in a special effects studio, “Neighbour Abdi” embarks on a candid journey through Abdiwahab Ali’s personal history scarred by war.

By Douwe Dijkstra

At the dawn of their teenage years, the bond between the twins Raphaël and Rémi begins to weaken. But during the summer, time seems to stand still.

By Justine Martin

Conversations with slaughterhouse workers, by the son of one, explore family and masculinity.

By Martín Benchimol

A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off heroin for the past six years.

By Miranda Stern

With A.I. and a six-core processor, my avatar learns a backflip.

By Nikita Diakur

A Northern Irish man’s relationship with a peregrine falcon reveals a personal history of torture during the Troubles.

By Tom Besley

Dream Hampton explores water as a force of harmony and devastation as climate change affects her home city of Detroit.

By Dream Hampton

As background extras, some nonplayer characters are programmed to do one thing forever: drudgery.

By Total Refusal

Two actors, partners at the time, discuss their own relationship conflicts between takes of a scripted scene.

By Marie Suul Brobakke

Three women reflect on the complexities of their relationships with their A.I. companions.

By Chouwa Liang

A mother and daughter find a connection in a place they least expected.

By Yana Pan