Films
This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Timberline; Winter’s Watch; The Rain Will Follow; and The Great Theater.
MORE ›This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: My Father’s Film; Luis & I; Shivani; and Waiting for Hassana.
MORE ›This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: The Original Richard McMahan; The Botanist; and The Submarine.
MORE ›This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Balloonfest; The Kodachrome Elegies; Dysphoria: Inside the Mind of a Holocaust Survivor; and The Earth Did Not Speak.
MORE ›Liz Garbus’s subject is free speech and why it is the basis of a free society. Garbus’s storytelling genius is in her use of the…
MORE ›In times of war, as this probing film notes, civil liberties inevitably lose ground to national security. To demonstrate just how much ground since 9/11,…
MORE ›Chronicles the daily life of shrimp, detailing its nutrition and reproduction habits all the way through the delivery of its larvae.
MORE ›In Macedonia, the Roma community’s self-representation for the camera takes the form of performance. With the music score of a Fellini movie (indeed, the soundtrack…
MORE ›Unpredictable in its visual style, this unusual film tells the story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker. Who knew, besides their enormous congress of…
MORE ›Haunting and powerful, this short animated piece lets Tana recount her own terrible story as a child of the Holocaust. Against the moving narration swirls…
MORE ›In a house and garden full of memories, Aline and Pierre Dubois move through spaces—both visible and invisible—filled with traces of their long life together.…
MORE ›Taking a cue from the work of biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson, this experimental film reveals the apparatus of how life on earth is threatened…
MORE ›JFK handles a scandal over some pricey bedroom furniture in the last summer of his presidency.
MORE ›Jon Else brings the “high art” of opera to a more populist level in this presentation of Wagner’s ring cycle told from the point of…
MORE ›A young monk in the remote mountain village of Laya, Bhutan, the last place in the country to receive access to the internet and television, finds himself addicted to his smartphone and in a virtual relationship with a singer in Thimphu, the capital city. In this moving and nuanced portrayal of technology infiltrating tradition, Sing Me a Song balances its message about the greater ramifications of these new influences with tender portraits of personal growth.
MORE ›SING! hints at what stands to be lost when budget cuts threaten school and community art programs. Known for its dedicated teachers and talented students,…
MORE ›Centered on the Landis family of Granville County, North Carolina, A Singing Stream chronicles the remarkable strength of one rural family through their music, stories,…
MORE ›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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