Festival Year: 2007


Freeheld
Cynthia Wade

This heart-wrenching tale takes us through the struggles of a highly respected police lieutenant who, while battling terminal cancer, must take on the city council…

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Ghosts of Cité Soleil
Asger Leth

The camera has been liberated. Each highly kinetic encounter recorded in this remarkable film is raw and immediate. We travel to the slums of Port-au-Prince,…

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Gonzo: The Life and Death of Hunter S. Thompson
Alex Gibney

Join director Alex Gibney for a behind the scenes look at his upcoming film on the life and death of the Gonzo journalist and controversial…

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The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief
Jake Clennell

Issei looks like one cool Japanese guy. He’s got it all, expensive clothes, the perfectly messed up hair, a boyish grin frozen in time, a…

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Greensboro: Closer to the Truth
Adam Zucker

In 1979 members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazis opened fire on a Communist Workers Party rally, killing five protesters and injuring…

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The Guarantee
Jesse Erica Epstein

Pinocchio, Schnozola, Sir Nose… Charles grows up to be clearly self-conscious of his prominent Italian nose. Still, he was shocked when one of the teachers…

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The Hands of Che Guevara
Peter De Kock

His image has sold t-shirts, tacos and bite-sized agitprop. With Che Guevara having already achieved iconographical status as a martyred revolutionary and a market-friendly signifier…

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Harvest 3,000 Years
Haile Gerima

A film classic, Harvest 3,000 Years dramatizes the contradictions between an exploited peasant family and their landlord. The entire family wakes at dawn to work…

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Helmut By June
June Newton

While Helmut Newton shoots his iconic high fashion photographs, his wife June shoots him with her video camera. She tells us her story—and his—with charm,…

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Helvetica
Gary Hustwit

The history and impact of the ubiquitous typeface, from its origins in Swiss International style to its proliferation around the world in corporate and institutional…

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In the Shadow of the Moon
David Sington

Can you imagine what it is like to walk on the moon? To bounce along its white, rocky surface, protected only with a suit made…

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A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich
Oksana Dvornichenko, Helga Landauer

The Soviet Union’s most famous composer took a sea voyage to America near the end of his life. This remarkable documentary is structured around his…

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The Killer Within
Macky Alston

When is the past truly past? Bob Bechtel, a prominent psychology professor at Arizona University, decides to reveal to his extended family, colleagues, and students…

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Knee Deep
Michael Chandler

Josh Osborne loves farm work. With his father’s permission he leaves school in sixth grade to learn everything he can about running the family dairy…

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Kurt Cobain About A Son
AJ Schnack

Lyrical landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and haunting audio recordings based on previously unheard interviews comprise this highly personal portrait. An intimate and moving meditation…

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La Vie Commence Demain
Nicole Védrès

Jean-Pierre Aumont plays a young man, who at the instigation of a scientific journalist, meets Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Jean Rostand and…

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Lake of Fire
Tony Kaye

Tony Kaye, best known for his dramatic feature American History X, has spent the last fifteen years working on what will likely become the definitive…

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Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone
Joan Brooker-Marks

This film celebrates and examines an unabashed vulgarian first known for Hustler magazine’s lack of restraint. His life story includes personal loss and public First…

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