S1.E4 ∙ Les chemins du caribou

How does one cope with profound loss and find hope? The award-winning film, 'Transforming Loss' follows six families through the grief process. Incredibly, these individuals not only have survived profound loss, but through love, faith and perseverance are transforming. A grief survivor herself, Burdick began her journey in understanding grief and loss when, at age 31, with two small children, her husband of 10 years was killed in a scuba diving accident. She found herself alone, entirely overwhelmed and unprepared for what her life, and their lives, had suddenly become. This film is Judith's transformation.

The high stakes testing beast prowls inside US schools, damaging kids with hyper testing and hyper stress. The Nordic North, opens the door to a playful escape-Education Outside.

My Brother Mike: A documentary about soulful music, mental illness and family love. Independent film maker and mental illness advocate Lisa Sheridan, produced the film My Brother Mike and the CD soundtrack Tuesday Side of the Street as a tribute to her brother, songwriter and blues rock pianist Michael Sheridan. When Lisa learned that her brother was having memory loss, after many decades of his living with mental illness, she began the five year project of preserving some of her brother's work. The film is an intimate portrait of Michael in interviews showing his unpretentious idiosyncrasies, captivating footage of him in recording sessions and reflections from family members about living with mental illness for over forty years.

Mica, is a classic young teen. Enthusiastic. Idealistic. Dreaming baseball. At 13, he is studying for his Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish coming of age rite. An earnest kid, he takes to heart his Rabbi's requirement to help "heal the world." Imagining himself a savior of sorts, he launches a grand plan to send baseballs to Cuba, a country with a mysterious pull. He knows only that Cubans are poor and love baseball-and that Cuba saved his grandpa's life. On a hunch, his award-winning filmmaker parents pick up their camera. They know the U.S. embargo with Cuba-and the complications of growing up-will throw him a curveball.

Primavera confronts her mother about the mystery that surrounds the deaths of her sister and father. The reasons behind the adoption of her two sisters, and why her family became the first Spanish equestrian vaulting team.