Winner of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for World Cinema - Documentary, this feature film chronicles Jacinda Ardern’s tenure as New Zealand's 40th Prime Minister. She led her nation through unprecedented challenges, implemented bold policies, and became the second leader in history to give birth in office, all while championing an inclusive and empathetic leadership style that changed global expectations of what a leader can be.
GETTING FREE is a feature documentary that reveals the battles of addiction, the harrowing experiences that lead to it, and what getting free can look like. The film introduces us to seven real people who have found sobriety through a Buddhist-inspired, peer-led, free-of-charge, community-based approach. GETTING FREE unfolds actual stories of people who achieved recovery. They take us on their journeys from addiction to transformation. GETTING FREE addresses all forms of addiction, including but not limited to, heroin, fentanyl, other opiates, alcohol, porn, sex, meth, cocaine, and overeating. From locations such as rural South Carolina and Wisconsin, to Los Angeles, Seattle, and Oklahoma City, to the streets of Moscow, Russia, GETTING FREE showcases the often heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting stories of people who are using the practices of meditation, compassion, and forgiveness to achieve liberation. Because this is not about an anonymous program, GETTING FREE is the first documentary that shows gripping, personal stories of real people on the front lines of recovery.
Known as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in pre-revolutionary Cuba, if not the world. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and courted movie stars such as Joan Fontaine and Bette Davis. Ironically, he worked with the mafia while at the same time supporting Fidel Castro's revolution. But when he turned down Che Guevara's personal offer to become Minister of Sugar in the Castro-led Government, Lobo's decades-long reign came to a dramatic end. Based on John Rathbone's New York Times best-seller "The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Cuba's Last Tycoon," this project is a rare, gripping portrait of Cuba's transformation over the years. Like Lobo himself, the story also tackles perennial issues like the true meaning of "success," and the pernicious cost of wealth inequality.