Festival Year: 2018


SHORTS: Connections

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Rebuilding in Miniature, A Friendship in Tow/Toe, and Girl-Hearted.

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SHORTS: Horizons

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: The Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara, A Singular Garden, and The Good Struggle.

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SHORTS: Reflections

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Las Nubes and The Issue of Mr. O’Dell.

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A Singular Garden
Monica Klemz

This experimental documentary blends old and new images of the garden next to the presidential palace in Rio de Janeiro and incorporates natural sound as a way to connect past and present. World Premiere

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Sky and Ground
Talya Tibbon, Joshua Bennett

Incorporating a refugee family’s own footage, Sky and Ground follows a Syrian-Kurdish refugee family as they flee from a holding camp at the Greece-Macedonia border and take their chances at reaching asylum by foot on a perilous one-way trip to Berlin.

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Solitary Land
Tiziana Panizza

This innovative meditation on Easter Island and its indigenous inhabitants uses historical and present-day footage to illustrate the legacy of colonial exploitation in one of the world’s most remote inhabited locales—a place of beauty, isolation, and tradition. North American Premiere

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The Square
Jehane Noujaim

After the 2011 Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square, citizens realize that former president Mubarak’s corrupt regime is still in power; they return to the streets to bring an end to the government, combatting controlled international media coverage, enduring violence, and navigating fragile relationships.

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Startup.com
Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim

In the late 1990s, two high school friends attempt to turn the spark of an idea into a multimillion-dollar company. But when passion leads to tension, and the dot-com rush gives way to the dot-com bust, will they be able to deliver on their dream?

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STEP
Amanda Lipitz

This inspiring film follows three members of the Lethal Ladies step-dance team at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. With the support of their intrepid coach and an uncompromising counselor, they are determined to attend college.

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Studio 54
Matt Tyrnauer

Rare footage transports us back in time and behind the velvet rope into the famed Manhattan disco, as a collection of insiders, including one of the co-founders, recall the rise and fall of the pioneering nightclub and iconic cultural landmark.

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Tempting Promises
Chiara Campara, Lorenzo Faggi

A small town tucked quietly away in the Italian Alps is chosen to host the 2016 Wikimania conference—an annual meeting of international Wikipedia contributors—and the townspeople unite to welcome the newcomers and the new technological age. North American Premiere

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The Thin Blue Line
Errol Morris

A man is sent to prison for shooting a Dallas police officer. The documentary questions the veracity of the verdict through interviews with detectives, lawyers, and the alleged murderer, who all paint very different accounts of events, which are represented in stunning reenactments.

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This Is Home
Alexandra Shiva

Through brilliant observational filmmaking, This Is Home tells the story of four Syrian families on the path to self-sufficiency, and success, in a resettlement program in Baltimore, Maryland.

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THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
Tim Wardle

A chance encounter leads three teenagers to discover that they are in fact triplets. Sharing this undeniable bond, they become fast friends and embark upon living their lives together, but the roots of their separation prove to be more sinister than they could have imagined.

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Thy Kingdom Come
Eugene Richards

A priest bears witness to the personal stories of people in a mid-American town: Heartbreak, regret, faith, resignation all resonate profoundly in this succession of exquisitely photographed scenes of intimate communion.

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Time Trial
Finlay Pretsell

Former doper and Tour de France champion David Millar is clean and ready to win the right way. This sensory ride travels alongside him for every breath, turn, and fall, through the thrills and hardships of professional cycling.

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Titicut Follies
Frederick Wiseman

An intense, purely observational look at the stark conditions of inmate life in the 1960s at the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts.

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The Unafraid
Heather Courtney, Anayansi Prado

The gripping and vital stories of three DACA students unfold as they work for immigrant rights, and the future of their families, after being banned from attending Georgia’s top universities or receiving in-state tuition. World Premiere

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