Whitney, at the time a Wall Street executive, returns to his rural hometown of Carlotta, California, and interviews his family members about his maternal stepgrandfather, Melvin E. Just. Just sexually abused 10 of Whitney's relatives, including his mother, uncle, aunts and step-aunts, some as young as 2 years old. The consequeneces have resulted in dysfunction spanning three generations of the family. Whitney reveals he was also molested by his uncle, who now lives incestuously with his half-sister. Whitney's aunts discuss their struggles with alcohol and drug addiction, and bouts of homelessness and prostitution.
L'humoriste Tig Notaro a annoncé son cancer à son public en 2012 lors d'un spectacle de stand-up. Découvrez l'humour dévastateur de cette femme face à l'adversité.
'50 feet from Syria' follows Syrian-American surgeon Hisham Bismar as he travels to the Turkish/Syrian border to volunteer operating on victims from the Syrian civil war.
In 2004, Alice Whinnett was diagnosed with dementia. Over the following decade her condition naturally worsened, and everything in her world changed, all apart from how her "favourite grandson" behaved with her. In this short documentary, grandson Thomas McNaught gives a brief look at the relationship between his 84-year-old grandmother and himself, showing a lighter side to the disease that breaks so many families apart.
Garmai Sumo told the story who is the only Body Team 12 female member, a group of medical professionals who handle the bodies of the victims of Ebola in Liberia. The film focuses on the Sumo perspective on the crisis in her country.