Local filmmaker Naja Pham Lockwood’s short documentary "On Healing Land, Birds Perch" examines the trauma of the Vietnam War through the lens of Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph "Saigon Execution." Lockwood shares her personal connection to the photo, its profound impact on her understanding of the war and the challenges of exploring intergenerational trauma within the Vietnamese community.

In "Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)," Rico’s summer is a wild mix of chasing girls and hustling homemade cocktails out of a cooler on Orchard Beach, the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place with his family, it’s only a matter of time before his rowdy, carefree days come spiraling down. Director Joel Alfonso Vargas shares more about his film.

André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor. Director Tony Benna tells the stories behind "André is an Idiot."

Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease leads to an exploration of art, activism, grief and fatherhood.

In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport investigates what happened to Bouvia and her story’s disturbing relevance today.

Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses and empty suburban homes — the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle — a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point. "Zodiac Killer Project" director Charlie Shackleton talks about the challenges of making a true crime documentary.

Co-directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman talk about "The Alabama Solution" in which incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.

Lives intertwine around Green Lake as a girl learns to sail, a boy fights for first chair, two sisters operate a bed-and-breakfast and a fisherman seeks the catch of his life. Director Sierra Falconer shares the stories behind "Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)."

In "Khartoum," five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom through animated dreams, street revolutions and civil war from the metropolis of Khartoum to their escape in East Africa. Two of the film's directors, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad and Timeea Mohamed, talk about the making of the film and the stories they captured.

In director Max Walker-Silverman's "Rebuilding," a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp after wildfires take his ranch, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.