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Categories
- New Docs
- Special Programming
- Career Award: William Greaves
- Curated Series: Migrations
- Sidebar: Inhabiting Space
- Party
- Panel / Workshop
The Tailor / Lakshmi and Me
Ends: 12:10pm
The Tailor
Simultaneously comic and unsettling, this film casually observes the tense business transactions— replete with thinly veiled hostilities—that unfold inside Mohamed's tiny shop in Barcelona.
Lakshmi and Me
A filmmaker in Bombay grapples with her relationship with her part-time maid, Lakshmi, against a backdrop of old feudal attitudes that still govern relationships between employers and their "servants."
La Corona / Please Vote for Me
Ends: 12:30pm
La Corona (The Crown)
Four inmates compete fiercely for the crown in the annual beauty pageant of a Bogotá women's prison.
Please Vote For Me
When third graders in rural China elect a class monitor, three determined aspirants and their crafty parents plot strategies and devise dirty tricks for victory.
Good Ol' Charles Schulz
Ends: 12:35pm
Good Ol' Charles Schulz
For fifty years, Charles Schulz captivated and comforted millions with his comic strip Peanuts, but worldwide success did not quiet his own Charlie Brown-style doubts.
My Olympic Summer / In a Dream
Ends: 12:40pm
My Olympic Summer
In this somber and visually mesmerizing film, Daniel Robin re-examines8mm home movies of his parents in the context of his own recently failed marriage.
In A Dream
Isaiah Zagar, a renowned mosaic artist who has covered over forty thousand square feet of Philadelphia with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete, comes under the scrutiny of his son's camera in this portrait of a complicated marriage.
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Ends: 12:55pm
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
The melancholy world of Chechnya, divided into three rooms, each an elegiac portrayal of a land without spirit. The elegant score and powerful imagery draw you into these spaces that few would want to inhabit.
The New Americans: Part 1
Ends: 1:00pm
The New Americans - Part 1
Shot in the cinéma-vérité style, this epic mini-series depicts the heartbreaking struggles and hard-fought triumphs of five families as they migrate from India, the West Bank, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico to the United States.
Awards Barbecue
Location: American Tobacco Campus - Bay 7
Begins: 1:00pm
Ends: 3:05pm
The New Americans: Part 2
Ends: 5:45pm
The New Americans - Part 2
Shot in the cinéma-vérité style,this epic mini-series depicts the heartbreaking struggles and hard-foughttriumphs of five families as they migrate from India, the West Bank,Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico to the United States.
Award Winner Rescreening 01: At the Death House Door
Ends: 5:30pm
At the Death House Door
This film offers an unflinching look at the career of Carroll Pickett, who presided over ninety-five executions during his fifteen-year tenure as death house chaplain to the Walls prison unit in Huntsville, Texas.
Award Winner Rescreening 02: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Ends: 5:45pm
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Exquisitely photographed over twenty-three years, this epic film follows one family of Laotian refugees who escaped the ravages of the Vietnam War to resettle in the United States.
In-the-Works
Begins: 3:45pm
Ends: 5:45pm
Presented by the Southern Documentary Fund, this program will screen a new work-in-progress by a North Carolina filmmaker for critique in a professional and constructive environment.
Flow: For Love of Water
Ends: 6:00pm
Flow: For Love of Water
This timely film offers a terrifying portrait of the growing scarcity and misuses of the world's most essential resource: water.
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Ends: 5:40pm
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
The life and work of schlockmeister William Castle, who ballyhooed his cheapie horror movies into immortality, are celebrated in this delightful tour through the maestro's shoddy masterpieces.
The New Americans: Part 3
Ends: 8:20pm
The New Americans - Part 3
Shot in the cinéma-vérité style,this epic mini-series depicts the heartbreaking struggles and hard-foughttriumphs of five families as they migrate from India, the West Bank,Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico to the United States.
Award Winner Rescreening 03: Man on Wire
Ends: 8:30pm
Man on Wire
In 1974, young Frenchman Philippe Petite spent an hour balancing on a high wire suspended between the new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center before being hauled off by police. Through meticulous recreations and intimate interviews with all involved, this moving film unveils the intricate preparations for what was to become the "artistic crime of the century."
Award Winner Rescreening 04: City of Cranes / Summerchild
Ends: 8:45pm
City of Cranes
Crane operators offer us an unparalleled view of London as their huge, graceful machines sweep and pluck above the city's skyline.
Summerchild
Eleven-year-old Svetlana lives in a children's home in Karelia, Russia, but she will spend what promises only at first blush to be an idyllic summer in Finland with host parents.
The Tingler
Ends: 8:10pm
The Tingler
This 1959 genre classic pits megalomaniacal, LSD-dropping scientist Vincent Price against the underwhelming eponymous monster, a parasitic(rubber) worm that lies dormant in everyone's spine until paralyzing fear awakens it.
A Promise to the Dead
Ends: 8:55pm
A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Based in part on his own memoir "Heading South, Looking North,"this film explores the extraordinary experiences of renowned Chilean-American novelist and playwright Ariel Dorfman, who barely escaped with his life when Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.
Award Winner Rescreening 05: Trouble the Water
Ends: 9:15pm
Trouble the Water
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Ninth Ward resident Kimberly Roberts turns on her video camera and so begins an inspiring story of heroism and resilience.