Movies: Ben Garchar

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health....

Amid the nation’s ongoing debate over health care reform, this bracing new documentary examines the everyday realities of Americans who lack access to affordable medical treatment. Filmed during three days in the operation of a “no-cost” clinic set u...

A suburban family struggles with the death of their 19 year-old son, following an overdose of heroin that was laced with fentanyl. The film explores the question of who and what is responsible for this tragedy....

The inside story of the last days of a General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio, as lived by the people who worked the line....

Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York....

Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis. Matthew Cassel, an independent multimedia journalist and filmmaker based in Istanbul, follows the seven-mo...

A poetic documentation of the Long Beach Island, NJ community as they battle local politics, cope with personal tragedy, and band together after Hurricane Sandy....

A meditation on lockdown, isolation, and yearning....

As the new World Trade Center tower rises, a photographer obsessed with 9/11 falls for a mysterious woman....

Jake, Midwest High School's star long distance runner, is overtaken by anorexia and sexual fantasy....

Rouge follows the current coach and four players, who shoulder the weight of the team’s celebrated history as well as the pressures of making future careers for themselves. Older legends tell tales of former victories while also exploring the challen...

Abby, a 20-something Brooklynite, prepares to throw an intimate dinner party, a meticulously planned evening that takes an unexpected turn when the guest of honor shows up and raw emotions rise to the surface....

A struggling expat living in Berlin spirals toward homicide when his unrequited love reveals a dark secret....

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 the lens of Muslims living in the United States....

Footage lost, then found, an audiovisual dispatch from timeless Havana....

An audiovisual diary. NYC: 2009 - 2014...

The lives of three strangers-a pigeon keeper, a webcam model, and a man haunted by ghosts-intertwine mysteriously amidst the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying Bushwick....

The creation of a pop star and her inevitable downfall....

In Luling, the "toughest town in Texas", two Latina high school girls compete to be the next Watermelon Thump Queen....

High in Lake Titicaca in the Andes Mountains, a large and homely frog once thrived, a species endemic to altitude and cold water named Telmatobius culeus. But over-collecting for human consumption, pollution and predation by introduced species have d...