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Perhaps the first musical documentary, Songbirds is filmed in Downview Prison, Sutton, England, home to 250 female inmates from all over the world. Inmates perform…
MORE ›An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia’s full invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalized. Against the backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.
MORE ›A filmmaker’s journey in search of things past takes an unexpected turn when he meets Kostia Bedik, a blind man who possesses a remarkable way…
MORE ›As her family attempts to sell her as a bride, an Afghani refugee living in Iran fights to keep her dream of becoming a rap star alive.
MORE ›A hot Havana night and the punches are hitting hard in the outdoor ring. Cuba has ruled the world’s boxing ring for several decades. But…
MORE ›A lyrical, beautiful piece of cinematography, Leuvrey’s film takes a glimpse into the life of 98-year-old Matti Ke Lal. A former wrestler, he takes in…
MORE ›“I am deaf. This is who I am. I want to be deaf. My kids are just like me.” So begins this emotional, challenging story…
MORE ›Who knew that New York’s largest orchestra was underground? Meet the street musicians who inhabit the city’s subways.
MORE ›This black-and-white short captures a series of children’s and adult’s attempts to consume an extremely unpalatable candy.
MORE ›In 1998, James Byrd, Jr. was dragged to death in Jasper, TX. This racially motivated killing shook the country, reminding it of the anger that…
MORE ›The French filmmaker takes us under the skin of Jasper, Texas, the scene of the brutal slaying of James Byrd, Jr. This experimental approach to…
MORE ›A young girl rides her bicycle through a littered landscape; two teenage boys arrive at a beach house with only three walls; a woman searches…
MORE ›Southern Comfort tells the story of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female-to-male transgendered person and his family of choice in their rural Georgia community. Eads, his…
MORE ›“Southern Comfort” tells the story of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old trans man who lives in the back hills of Georgia. “A hillbilly and proud of it,” he says, tobacco pipe in hand. But Robert was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and turned away by more than two dozen doctors for treatment. As his health declines, Robert falls in love with Lola, a trans-woman, and the film becomes a tale of love in the face of transphobia as it unfolds before the camera.
MORE ›A somber look into the lives of three parents whose children have gone missing, this short film strikes a strong emotional chord.
MORE ›Biosphere 2, conceived as a self-sustaining laboratory mimicking Earth’s ecology and resources, was a massive geodesic enclosure built in the Arizona desert. In 1991, an eight-person crew of “biospherians” undertook a two-year experiment to live inside the dome. Part science-fiction, part co-op—and inadvertent precursor to reality television—the experiment yielded unexpected results both inside and outside the bubble.
MORE ›Kim and Billy work at carnivals. Over the summer, Kim procrastinates. He plans to leave this family of colleagues to devote himself to his passion, the search for precious stones. The layoff of Billy, his best friend, accelerates his disenchantment.
MORE ›Five top-ranked high school oratory students spend a year crafting spellbinding spoken word performances with the dream of winning one of the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competitions.
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