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Categories
- New Docs
- Special Programming
- Career Award: William Greaves
- Curated Series: Migrations
- Sidebar: Inhabiting Space
- Party
- Panel / Workshop
Blindsight
Ends: 12:40pm
Blindsight
Inspired by renowned blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer's miraculous ascent to the top of Mount Everest, a group of teenagers from Braille Without Borders in Tibet join him on a physically and emotionally demanding adventure to one of the mountain's highest peaks.
Marcela
Ends: 12:10pm
Marcela
Helena Trestikova spent twenty-six years chronicling the often tragic life of Marcela—whom we first meet in Czechoslovakia as a young bashful bride stealing puffs on a cigarette and looking for all the world like a refugee from American Bandstand circa 1965—and the result is a striking example of the raw power of documentation.
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Ends: 12:45pm
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
This film pays tribute to the determination and courage of Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement to empower rural women in Kenya and ended up sparking a national political crusade to protect the environment, human rights, and democracy.
Don't Get Me Wrong
Ends: 12:30pm
Don't Get Me Wrong
Patients debate the weather, God, and other forces beyond their control in this poignant view of life in a Romanian psychiatric hospital.
DaNADIE
Ends: 12:55pm
DeNADIE
This film follows Central American immigrants who take a long and perilous illegal train journey north to the United States in search of a better life, falling prey along the way to immigration police, gangs, and the dangers of the train itself.
GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts
Ends: 3:10pm
GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts
A riveting and intimate profile of the preeminent composer Philip Glass at work and at play, crafted in contrasting tones, from the comical to the profound.
Forbidden Lie$
Ends: 3:20pm
Forbidden Lie$
The life and deceptions of a con artist, Norma Khoury, who wrote a "non-fiction" best-seller about an honor killing in Jordan.
The Last Conquistador
Ends: 3:20pm
The Last Conquistador
When sculptor John Houser sets out to create an enormous bronze statue of Juan de Oñate for the city of El Paso, his subject's vexed colonial legacy sparks passionate opposition.
Sud (South)
Ends: 3:20pm
Sud (South)
The French filmmaker takes us under the skin of Jasper, Texas, the scene of the brutal slaying of James Byrd Jr. Well before Two Towns of Jasper examined its political realities, this beautiful, languid observational film makes us feel what it is like in live in Jasper, and to breathe its air.
Sewing Woman / Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
Ends: 3:40pm
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
The migration portrayed in this stirring film is from independent living to a nursing home, as filmmaker Deborah Hoffman diligently documents the cruel progression of her mother's Alzheimer's disease and her own process of coming to terms with the illness.
Sewing Woman
Based in part on the life story of the filmmaker's mother, Zem Ping Dong, Sewing Woman interweaves rare footage shot in rural villages of China and in factories in San Francisco's Chinatown, treasured home movies, and intimate family photographs to paint a bittersweet portrait of early-twentieth-century migration.
Diaries (1971-1976)
Ends: 6:10pm
Diaries (1971-1976)
In this intensely personal memoir, pioneering documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus shows us how he embodied the utopian hopes, fears, and neuroses of the sixties generation when he set out to create an enlightened, unconventional life through his filmmaking practice.
Up the Yangtze
Ends: 6:15pm
Up the Yangtze
This film takes the viewer on a poignant farewell tour of the Yangtze River, meeting some of the two million inhabitants of shoreline villages who will lose their homes when the Three Gorges Dam is completed.
Left in Baghdad / Lioness
Ends: 6:30pm
Left in Baghdad
The tragicomedy of a soldier who has to pick out a new left arm after losing the original in Baghdad.
Lioness
This film presents the untold story of female support soldiers in Iraq who have been sent into direct ground combat in violation of the military's official policy.
Of Shadows and Men / Sally Gross - The Pleasure of Stillness
Ends: 6:30pm
Of Shadows and Men
In this lovely short film, the centuries-old practice of Chinese shadow plays emerges as the forefather of cinema.
Sally Gross - The Pleasure of Stillness
This film chronicles avant-garde dancer and choreographer Sally Gross's fifty-year career with breathtaking archival performance footage and follows her for eight months as she prepares her newest piece, The Pleasure of Stillness.
34x25x36 / The Siamese Connection
Ends: 6:45pm
34x25x36
An inside look at the Patina V Mannequin Factory, where model women are sculpted with perfect proportions.
The Siamese Connection
Quirky and unpredictable, this film tells the story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, who lived in Mt. Airy, North Carolina from 1839 to 1874.
Opening Night Film: Trumbo
Ends: 10:15pm
OPENING NIGHT FILM: Trumbo
Legendary blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is perhaps best known for his work on Spartacus and Roman Holiday. This eloquent film, based on the play by his son Christopher Trumbo, brings together a remarkable group of actors to read from the screenwriter's famously candid letters, thus revealing a man of great courage, integrity, and wit.
Opening Night Party
Location: American Tobacco Campus - Lawn
Begins: 10:00pm
Ends: 12:05am
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Ends: 12:20am
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. This wildly innovative landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.