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Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas

The documentary “Love to the Max” captures one family’s determination to live authentically in an anti-trans political climate.

The Black Mothers Fighting to Get Their Kids Back, in “To Be Invisible”

Myah Overstreet’s film follows two women trying to regain custody of their children and explores the injustice of family separation.

Connecting with Trans History, Rebellion, and Joy, in “Compton’s 22”

Drew de Pinto’s documentary explores the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.

Laughing in the Face of Dying Young, in “Cherry”

The actor Marie-Lise Chouinard faces her terminal-cancer diagnosis with grace and comedy in Laurence Gagné-Frégeau’s short documentary.

An Iranian Woman Finds Her Might, in “The Smallest Power”

Both the subject and the makers of this animated short discover their identities and a new love of their nation.

Crashes and Community in “Demolition”

In Alec Sutherland’s short film, upstate New York’s demolition derbies are a loud, brutal, deeply physical antidote to the isolation of digital life.

Flipping the Script on Trans Medical Encounters

Noah Schamus and Brit Fryer’s short film offers a vision of how physicians and trans patients can meet one another on equal footing.

For Black Women, Embracing Natural Hair Is About More Than Style

Lindsay Opoku-Acheampong’s film “Textures” follows three women through the private and meaningful rituals of caring for their hair.

A Teen-Ager’s Quest to Manage His O.C.D. in “Lost in My Mind”

In Charles Frank’s short film, a young man offers a candid look at life with O.C.D. and his experiences with exposure therapy.

A Ukrainian TikTok Influencer Shares Her Life as a Refugee in “Following Valeria”

Nicola Fegg’s short documentary follows a young woman who becomes a social-media star during the war in Ukraine.