Justfilms Ford Foundation Movies

Best friends Silvia and Beba record their lives as they dance, make music, and face an uncertain immigration process in Texas near the Mexican border.

Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by...

This film is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys will be boys” culture at th...

When two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house, they embark on a magical-realist journey from her home in...

We Are the Giant tells the stories of ordinary individuals who are transformed by the moral and personal challenges they encounter when standing up fo...

Rafea: Solar Mama follows the groundbreaking journey of one Bedouin mother living on the Jordan-Iraq border who, along with thirty illiterate grandmot...

Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into adulth...

In 1970, a group of young Puerto Rican activists took over a decrepit hospital in New York City, launching a battle for their lives, their community,...

Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.

In a courtroom in Queens, women facing prostitution charges may earn a chance at redemption thanks to an experimental program established by a team of...

From filmmaker Dawn Porter (who earlier this year directed "John Lewis: Good Trouble"),the film explores the remarkable journey of Jordan from modest...

Foreveryone.net connects the future of the web with the little-known story of its birth. In 1989, 33-year-old computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee inve...

After an attempt to bring Syrian refugees into the predominately white New England town of Rutland, Vermont, unleashes deep partisan rancor, a longtim...

Eight miles inland of Miami’s beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a ridg...

Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, espe...

"Detroit 48202" examines the rise, demise and contested resurgence of Detroit through the lens of mail carrier Wendell Watkins and the residents he ha...

The Pushouts focuses on the alarming rate of high school dropouts and the critical state of public education through the story of Victor Rios. Rios wa...

An Act of Worship is Pakistani-American filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy’s lyrical portrait of the last 20 years of Muslim Life in America as told through...

A documentary by renowned filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich about life in Majdal Anjar, a Syrian camp in Lebanon. The film takes us inside and shows wh...

A documentary film following the rise of Ebony and Jet and their growth into a brand with a readership base in the millions which has had an undeniabl...