Directed by Roger Ross Williams 2015 / US / 91 minutes At the age of three, Owen Suskind stopped talking; he was later diagnosed with autism. Owen’s parents tried to converse with him for years without success, until the day his father picked up a toy puppet and spoke to him in the voice of one of Owen’s favorite Disney characters. Squawking like the parrot Iago from Aladdin, he asked, “What’s it like to be you?”…
Directed by Raoul Peck 2016 / US, France, Belgium, Switzerland / 93 minutes In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his…
Directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg 2015 / US / 100 minutes Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, Anthony Weiner was someone who was compelled to say it how he saw it, and say it loud. And as the world now knows, Anthony Weiner was also someone who was compelled to send personal pictures through Twitter. Weiner picks up the story of the disgraced congressman as he announces his run for mayor of…
April 6 - 9, 2017 Durham, North Carolina
Co-Presented with the Nasher Museum of Art Movie on the Lawn: SAMSARA Thursday, June 8 8:30 PM Nasher Museum of Art Free, no ticket required. Rain or shine. Through an intricate synthesis of images, and without a single word of dialogue, this intoxicating film takes us on a cross-continental journey through our modern world. This fascinating work by director Ron Fricke invites us to embrace our perplexing existence through portraits that range from horrific to…
Bobbi Jene (96 min) Directed by Elvira Lind June 22, 2017 Full Frame Theater @ American Tobacco Film starts at 7:00 pm, Doors open at 6:30 pm Free, ticket required After a decade of stardom in Israel, American dancer Bobbi Jene Smith decides to leave behind her prominent position at the world-famous Batsheva Dance Company, as well as the love of her life, to return to the U.S. to create her own boundary breaking performances. Tracking the personal…
Please join us as the 2017 School of Doc participants present their final project: Know Wonder. The Museum of Life and Science.
Through the Repellent Fence (74 min) Directed by Sam Wainwright Douglas Read our exclusive Q+A with director Sam Wainwright Douglas! July 27, 2017 Full Frame Theater @ American Tobacco Film starts at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm. After 6:45 pm, all remaining seats will be filled from the Last Minute Line. Free, ticket required. In the southwestern United States, the earth and sky connect in never-ending expanses. These vistas inspired revolutionary artists like Robert Smithson…
Friday, July 28, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm The Classroom at The Frontier Doors open at 12:15 pm Free, ticket required Programmed to fit your lunch hour, Full Frame will present three short documentaries from the 2017 Festival featuring female innovators who grace the world with skill and devotion to their craft. RSVP via Eventbrite beginning Monday, July 24 at 9 am. Slowerblack (9 min) Directed by Jessica Edwards A hand-poke tattoo artist in Brooklyn…
School Life (99 min) Directed by Neasa Ní Chianáin, Co-Directed by David Rane August 31, 2017 Full Frame Theater @ American Tobacco Film starts at 7:00 pm, Doors open at 6:30 pm Free, ticket required For more than 40 years, John and Amanda Leyden have taught children at Headfort, a rare Irish primary-age boarding school. When the film opens, the new school year is just beginning. Boys and girls bid farewell to their parents, the pangs of…
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