Films


SHORTS: Taking Place

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Timberline; Winter’s Watch; The Rain Will Follow; and The Great Theater.

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SHORTS: Ties Between Us

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: My Father’s Film; Luis & I; Shivani; and Waiting for Hassana.

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SHORTS: To Be Exact

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: The Original Richard McMahan; The Botanist; and The Submarine.

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SHORTS: What Remains

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.

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Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
Liz Garbus

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…

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Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
Liz Garbus

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,…

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Shrimp Stories
Jean Painlevé

Chronicles the daily life of shrimp, detailing its nutrition and reproduction habits all the way through the delivery of its larvae.

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The Shutka Book Of Records
Aleksandar Manic

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…

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The Siamese Connection
Josh Gibson

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…

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Silence
Orly Yadin, Sylvie Bringas

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…

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The Silent Shore
Nathalie Giraud, Timothée Corteggiani

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.…

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Silent Springs
Erin Espelie

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…

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The Silly Bastard Next to the Bed
Scott Calonico

JFK handles a scandal over some pricey bedroom furniture in the last summer of his presidency.

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Sing Faster
Jon Else

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…

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Sing Me a Song
Thomas Balmès

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.

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SING!
Freida Lee Mock

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,…

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A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle
Tom Davenport, Daniel W. Patterson, Allen Tullos

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,…

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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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