Breaking The Mould

 In the shadow of mortality, each with a long and dramatic life behind them, the hard truths of life together provoke in Maggie and Joel an attempt to find a shared inner-peace while there is still time.

Mediha was 10 years old when ISIS raided her Yazidi village and sold her into sexual slavery. This is her quest for justice.

Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Soualem returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.

A canoe trip down the Whanganui River in New Zealand, led by a Māori elder, awakens spiritual belief and practice, and becomes a call to action to draw closer to nature and fight climate change through a fundamental value shift.

Mauri unveils the profound ancestral wisdom woven into Māori healing traditions, illuminating a restorative path to mend the wounds inflicted by colonialism. The film is a testament to the radiant beauty and unbreakable resilience of the Māori culture.

For 40 years, Magnum photographer Larry Towell has documented the plight of the displaced around the world and the universal longing of people looking for a place to call their own.