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Maneesha describes how she carves out time for herself, despite all the distractions of family.

Maneesha is tasked with solving a silly problem and then criticized by her husband.

Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daughter turns the camera towards her family, the personal becomes political as power structures within the family become visible, and eventually unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film examines the vagaries of affection across generations, tied together by something stranger than love.

Sabine and her friend debate the latest rumors of Belgian immigration policy.

Sabine sees a commotion outside her salon and learns that the police are raiding the market looking for undocumented immigrants.

Sabine begins to recount the harrowing story of “a girl” from Cameroon who went to Lebanon for a promising position as a domestic worker.

In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about life back home in Cameroon.

Sabine speaks of own experience with Lebanon’s “Kafala system”.

Lea talks about the difference between “devil’s advocate” and “Human right’s lawyer”.

Lea volunteers in 1967, wondering what happened to the people who had lived at the Kotel. It wasn’t a land without a people

Lea speaks to the press after the conclusion of her trial.

Understanding that the motive of violence is a response to a larger form of violence.

The choice between settling as a child or going to trial as an adult.

Lea explains her own moral framework.

A political firebrand in her home country, Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel is known by her opponents as "the devil's advocate," for her decades-long defense of Palestinians who have been accused of resisting the occupation, both violently and non-violently. Tsemel, who pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits, takes on two contentious court cases in her tireless quest for justice.

Who runs the world?! The Monarchs take to the streets at the women’s march.

Media misunderstands the Monarchs so the troop teaches us what they’re about.

Monarchs learn about “Radical Advocacy” by talking with legislators.

Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color at the front lines of social justice. Set in Oakland, the film documents the journey of the group as they earn badges for completing units including being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment, and disability justice. We follow the two founders as they face the challenge to grow the organization, both pre and post the 2016 election.

Asians for Abrams describe their motivations for organizing, and show us what it’s like to canvass to this diverse multiethnic, multilingual demographic.