 | Girl, Adoptedby Melanie Judd and Susan Motamed Girl, Adopted is a contemporary coming-of-age story that follows 13-year-old Weynsht from her orphanage in Ethiopia's capital city to an adoptive American family in rural Arkansas. Global Voices |
 | Goodbye Soloby Ramin Bahrani An elderly man hires Solo, a Senegalese cab driver, to drive him to a mountaintop in North Carolina where he plans to commit suicide. Independent Lens |
 | Greetings from Out Hereby Ellen Spiro This tongue-in-cheek and pedal-to-the-metal on-the-road journey through the backroads of the South documents gay life in the boonies and beyond. |
 | The Groveby Andy Abrahams Wilson and Tom Shepard The National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is a memorial to those lost to the pandemic, and also a testament to the fierce determination and brilliant vision of a community rallying against loss. |
 | Hell and Back Againby Danfung Dennis What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home — injured physically and psychologically — and build a life anew? Independent Lens |
 | Homecoming ... Sometimes I Am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clayby Charlene Gilbert “This is the story of my family, this is the story of black farmers in the 20th century, this is the story of land and love.” |
| Justice in the Coalfieldsby Anne Lewis Examine the community and family toll surrounding the 1989 Pittston Coal Strike, its effects on the rank-and-file miners, and on those neighbors, shopkeepers, sons and daughters, both united and divided. |
 | Land (and how it gets that way)by Walter Brock A look at how land-use issues are affecting one community in Kentucky, and how the ramifications translate to other communities across the nation. |
 | Larry v. Lockneyby Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck When Larry Tannahill and the ACLU challenge a proposal for mandatory drug testing in schools, because Tannahill believes it violates his 12-year-old son's rights, they meet with hostility and ostracism from the small community of Lockney, Texas. POV, True Stories |
 | Las Marthasby Cristina Ibarra The annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is unlike any other in the country — its 94 percent Latino debutantes and their attendants all dress as Martha Washington or other patriotic figures from America's colonial period. Independent Lens |
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