Festival Year: 2026
This stirringly poetic documentary puts a human face on the ravages of the American carceral state as a conflicted young woman contemplates marrying her imprisoned…
MORE ›Inspired by the earliest surviving feature film with an all-Black cast and through a series of vignettes rooted in New Orleans, America challenges the idea…
MORE ›When three American doctors–Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian–enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
MORE ›Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot Suit and La Bamba, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story.
MORE ›The thrilling and adventurous life of beloved advice columnist and gonzo journalist E. Jean Carroll, the only woman to beat Trump in court. Twice.
MORE ›In the dead of winter, at a wildlife rescue center on the pacific coast of so-called Canada, a team of rehabbers treat Bald Eagles suffering from lead poisoning so that they can be released back to their environment.
MORE ›An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
MORE ›Following and filming friends for nearly fifty years, The Bend in the River is an exploration of the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.
MORE ›In this deeply intimate and haunting documentary, Alan Berliner posthumously collaborates with his friend and colleague, experimental New York City filmmaker Benita Raphan, who died by suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film is an unflinching, lyrical, and ultimately moving study of an artist’s mind, offering profound insights into the intersections of mental health, creativity, loneliness, and human resilience.
MORE ›A short film from unused material from BISBEE ’17 that deconstructs the circumstances around the two deaths on the day of the Bisbee Deportation in 1917.
MORE ›Dawn Porter’s uplifting short film examines how the art world responded to the death of Breonna Taylor by using art not only as a form…
MORE ›An experimental portrait of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Carroll B. Williams Jr., a ground-breaking African-American forester, that reflects on his work and legacy in the twilight of his life.
MORE ›When Paul Okpokam arrived in the U.S. in 1968, David Schickele decided to make a film about his Nigerian friend’s experience of coming to teach…
MORE ›The profound desire to become a mother and the pressure from her surroundings drive Alejandra to fake a pregnancy. What begins as a simple lie turns into a complex charade to sustain for months before a hopeful husband and family. It unleashes a media scandal that won’t allow her to continue lying.
MORE ›“The Cloud Factory” is an cinematic exploration of the sky above the Rhenish coal mining region, where emission-enriched air masses ascend into the atmosphere to transform the climate. What can these human-made clouds tell us about our future? And what kind of castles can we build in this air?
MORE ›Inside the installations of a deportation center, a Mexican immigrant hears the innocent question: Where are you from? His answer determines which side of the…
MORE ›It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.
MORE ›Shirley Clarke’s vérité-style portrait follows Duke, a fifteen-year-old member of a Harlem youth gang, the Royal Pythons. Made in 1963 and produced by Frederick Wiseman,…
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