Standing on the Edge of a Thorn color, 33 minutes
An intimate portrait of a family in rural Indonesia. Shot over the course of 12 years, the film centers on Iman Rohani, a former civil servant struggling with a mental disorder, who takes in Tri, an unwed pregnant teenager 30 years his junior. The couple is scorned by the other villagers and eventually Tri is brought to a life a prostitution and violence. Narrated by their daughter, Lisa. the film documents her sense of self against the backdrop of an unstable family. Read more 
Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart color, 16 minutes
This film takes an impressionistic look at the ngaben from the perspective of a mourning son, Nyoman Asub, and reveals the intimacy, sadness, and tenderness at the core of this funerary ritual. Amidst cultural and interpretive understandings of the cremation ceremony, the film purposefully provides a personalistic, impressionistic, and poetic glimpse of the process and the complex emotions involved. Read more
El Field color, 84 minutes
In a time when immigration has taken the political center stage across the globe, El Field contributes to the discussion by providing a compelling portrait of the life, work and industry of a forgotten section of the largest, busiest land transit border in the world. El Field presents visual historic information that induces the audience to form their own impressions on migrant labor and the industry that employs them. Read more
Smokin’ Fish color, 80 minutes
Cory Mann, a quirky Tlingit businessman, gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking salmon at his family’s traditional fish camp in Juneau, Alaska. By turns tragic, bizarre, or just plain ridiculous, Smokin’ Fish tells the story of one man’s attempts to navigate the messy collision between the modern world and an ancient culture. Read more
Funeral Season color, 87 & 60 minutes
Funeral Season takes the viewer through the red dust of Cameroon and into the heart of the Bamileke country, where one funeral flows into the next. Along the way, the director befriends his guides and becomes increasingly haunted by memories of his own ancestors. Like the dead and the living, they belong to two different worlds often mirroring each other. Read more
If It Doesn’t Rain & If It Doesn’t Rain: First Return color, 107 minutes
The latest installment in the Development Communications Workshop Collection, this 2-disk set takes a serious look at the issue of poverty in Southern Mexico. Great for classroom discussion and filled with in-depth extras, this set examines the strategies associated with development. In the second disk, the filmmakers return and provide an update on the role of government programs, migration and grass-roots organizing. Read more
Paths of Hope color, 39 minutes 
