Festival Year: 2019


SHORTS 1

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: The Ambassador’s Wife, Stretch, Only The Moon, GIVE, and Moment to Moment.

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SHORTS 2

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Santuario and Life Overtakes Me.

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SHORTS 3

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: One Thing in Nothing, Easter Snap, Histories of Wolves, Crannog, and Kolmas Punkt (The Third Point).

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SHORTS 4

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: All Inclusive, It’s Going To Be Beautiful, Welcome to Harmondsworth, Scenes from a Dry City, and Edgecombe.

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SHORTS 5

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: The Changing Same, Motherland, Our Song to War, and Obon.

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Stretch
Jay Bedwani

In intimate conversations with his parents, and through glorious photography of his routines, an aging acrobat considers the end of his beloved career—his body may let go of the ability to perform before his mind is ready.

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SUNDAY ENCORE 1 – Life Overtakes Me & Titixe

Life Overtakes Me & Titixe

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SUNDAY ENCORE 2 – One Thing in Nothing & GIVE & Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

One Thing in Nothing & GIVE & Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

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SUNDAY ENCORE 3 – Kifaru

In Kenya, a dedicated team of rangers watches over Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino. Rampant poaching has decimated his subspecies, yet hope remains thanks to his incredible caregivers who are set on both preventing and recovering loss.

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SUNDAY ENCORE 4 – Obon & A Thousand Girls Like Me

Obon & A Thousand Girls Like Me

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SUNDAY ENCORE 5 – One Child Nation

In this brave and sensitive film, Nanfu Wang examines the traumatic history of China’s One Child Policy. With the birth of her first baby, she begins to question her family’s own experiences under the program, which gives way to a broader exploration of its lasting imprint.

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A Thousand Girls Like Me
Sahra Mani

Counter to cultural tradition, a resilient Afghan woman in her early 20s publicly speaks out against years of sexual abuse suffered at the hands of her father.

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Titixe
Tania Hernández Velasco

Brimming with symbolic imagery, Titixe is a beautiful and patient montage of a family’s last harvest in Mexico.

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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

In this deft and stirring portrait, candid interviews with the legendary author, as well as colleagues and contemporaries, celebrate Morrison’s inimitable writing career and its profound impact on American literature.

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Twilight City
Reece Auguiste

In this poetic essay about race, class, and gentrification in London, a fictional letter from a woman to her mother is interwoven with interviews with journalists and historians to reveal a city where people live alongside one another but in very different worlds.

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Union Maids
Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, Julia Reichert

Union Maids weaves together rare archival footage with the personal stories of three remarkable women, embattled workers who rose up to organize and empower their class during the rank-and-file labor movement of the 1930s, with each woman powerfully recounting the pivotal moments when she could no longer remain silent.

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The Watson’s Hotel
Ragunath Vasudevan, Nathaniel Knop, Peter Rippl

The Watson’s Hotel is a dawn-to-dusk Mumbai city symphony contained within a single building, the oldest surviving cast-iron structure in India; this once majestic relic of the British Empire is now falling to ruin near the civil and high courts.

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Welcome to Harmondsworth
Felix Bazalgette, Toby Bull

A naive group of tourists stroll through a quaint town, but the idyllic surroundings cannot erase what looms at the village’s edge.

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