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Festival Year: 2009
Duah, a beautiful Druze Arab girl from Jerusalem, is already a finalist for the local “Lady of the Arabs” beauty pageant for Israeli-Arab women when…
MORE ›In the early 1960s, the lumber town of Leavenworth, Washington, faced extinction. A group of local leaders created Leavenworth Improvement For Everyone (LIFE) and adopted…
MORE ›In Thy, a faraway Danish fishing community, there are now over five hundred Thai women. Fifteen years ago, there was one—Sommai, who has since become…
MORE ›A ten-minute assemblage of tracking shots captures a shattered New Orleans neighborhood in the early morning mist. Each of the caved-in houses and crushed objects…
MORE ›This stunningly photographed film captures the various works of Swiss artist Heinrich Lüber, for whom the world is a museum. Rather than set up his…
MORE ›“Losing,” says 73-year-old Bill McFadyen, a Scottish competitive powerlifter who can bench-press over 350 pounds, “I don’t tolerate.” Ma Bar is McFadyen’s war cry as…
MORE ›What would make a seven-year-old knowingly risk his life? Why would anyone yearn to become a bullfighter? And why, in particular, would the filmmaker’s father…
MORE ›Hard, fast, intense, go. A father relentlessly pushes his son to become a champion wrestler. But his grueling training sessions mirror preparations for a graver…
MORE ›With its exquisite visual composition and delicate musical score, Phie Ambo’s Mechanical Love gently places its finger on the pulse of 21st-century emotional life. It…
MORE ›The City Symphony is a venerable documentary film genre now entering its ninth decade. This updated model (the first postmodern example, perhaps?) celebrates that most…
MORE ›“A photograph does not show the flies nor the thick white smell of death. Neither does it show how you must jump over bodies as…
MORE ›Television’s ubiquitous nature shows in the sixties and seventies perpetuated a myth of rural Africa as a modern-day Eden where great beasts roamed free across…
MORE ›Arcade Fire makes beautiful and moody music and Vincent Morrisett has made a beautiful and moody film about them. More specifically, Miroir Noir is about…
MORE ›An experimental and haunting collection of vignettes, Deborah Stratman’s O’er the Land weaves several picturesque and arresting strands into an evocative essay on freedom as…
MORE ›From potato peelers to iPhones, every manufactured item we use has a person behind it. Gary Hustwit’s film brings us behind the scenes of our…
MORE ›“I see history as a badly mixed cocktail,” explains a veteran bartender in Lima, Peru. “Made of semi-democratic elections, coups, terrorism, and corruption.” Dutch filmmaker…
MORE ›No human presence seems to disturb the scale and beauty of the Baltic Sea, spectacularly depicted here in all its sound, color, and texture. The…
MORE ›Ohad Nahirin is the fascinating, enigmatic Israeli choreographer, and director of the Bathsheva Dance Company, who has developed a philosophy of movement he calls Gaga.…
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