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Festival Year: 2007

Two Hands
Nathaniel Kahn

Nathaniel Kahn, maker of My Architect, has made a short film with a fascinating subject: pianist Leon Fleisher, known for his decades-long career as a…

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Uganda Rising
Jesse James Miller, Pete McCormack

In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s notorious demagoguery, Uganda remains torn by official neglect and a radical resistance, inspired in part, by western Pentecostalism where…

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Upside Down
Astrid Bussink

In May 1941, Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy Führer, decided to fly alone in a small Messerschmitt plane from Germany to Scotland, apparently in a deluded…

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Vietnam Romance
Eddo Stern

Vietnam War video games now abound in stores. In Vietnam Romance Eddo Stern uses machinima to explore the influence of mass-media images on public perceptions…

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Voyage in G Major
Georgi Lazarevski

The filmmaker and his ninety-one-year-old violinist grandfather travel from France to Morocco on a grand voyage that the latter has been dreaming about for decades.…

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War/Dance
Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine

For the children of the Patongo refugee camp in the most perilous region of Northern Uganda, dancing is a kind of salvation and music soothes…

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The Way It Is
Elizabeth Salgado

A boiled egg. A slurped saucer. Each sequence of this exquisite movie is reduced to its essence as it tells a year in the life…

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Welcome to Nollywood
Jamie Meltzer

Nigeria is the third largest producer of feature films, after the US and India. Movies are made on the cheap—first quickly shot on tape, then,…

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White Light/Black Rain
Steven Okazaki

Seventy-five percent of Japan’s population was born after 1945 and when questioned on the streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many have no idea of the…

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Without the King
Michael Skolnik

Swaziland is the last absolute monarchy in the world and one of the few African countries that has never faced a civil war. King Mswati…

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