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Festival Year: 2009
At seventeen, Carmen is delightful and, according to her neighbors, already an old maid. She dreams of emigrating to Spain, whose romantic men are enticingly…
MORE ›Every winter the Yurungkash River in western China dries up, revealing an expanse of river-worn stones. There, hidden within the rock, lies a buried treasure…
MORE ›This white-knuckle spy thriller of a documentary uncovers a horrifying secret in a little seaside town in Japan. To the unsuspecting, Taiji looks like the…
MORE ›Robert Stone’s sweeping history of the modern environmental movement serves as both inspiration and warning. Blending stunning archival footage with eyewitness accounts, the film traces…
MORE ›This hypnotic compilation film pairs a lush Chopin score with archival footage from mid-century educational and documentary films to stage a fall from grace in…
MORE ›Every Little Step follows the casting of the 2006 revival of Michael Bennett’s A Chorus Line, one of the most beloved musicals of all time…
MORE ›Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple completed her portrait of one of the most controversial figures in boxing history in 1993, just after he was convicted of…
MORE ›The lives of a group of Romanian shepherds change when a hang-gliding business opens near their pastures. The German owner-operators and the shepherds maintain an…
MORE ›Looking beyond the pastoral images gracing grocery store shelves, director Robert Kenner serves up a revealing look at the way food is produced in America.…
MORE ›When Richard Minnich was rear-ended in 1990, he emerged unscathed. One week later, he couldn’t remember a thing: not his wife, not his children, nothing.…
MORE ›With 382 career wins, Bobby Bowden is one of the winningest coaches in college football. Since 1976, when he became coach at Florida State, hundreds…
MORE ›Where do celebrities get their pricey hair extensions? Some of the best are “temple hair” from India—long, luxurious tresses never subjected to harsh chemical processes…
MORE ›Steve James’s landmark 1994 documentary follows the early careers of Arthur Agee, Jr., and William Gates, two black teenagers from inner-city Chicago who were recruited…
MORE ›Noted by Time Magazine as one of the world’s one hundred most influential people, Youssou Ndour is beloved around the globe as a musician, vocalist,…
MORE ›In a 2006 interview, St. Clair Bourne professed his admiration for those who fight against the forces of social and economic oppression. Amiri Baraka, the…
MORE ›In John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk, narrated by Wesley Snipes, Bourne explores the biopic form that has framed much of his work…
MORE ›Oscar-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu brings a whimsical yet thoughtful touch to the gap between childhood imagination and grown-up facts regarding the birds and the bees.…
MORE ›“That dog domesticated me,” says ex-con Pedro Cajias. In this powerful and poetic film, in which Cajias delivers a fragmented monologue as if he were…
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