Films


SHORTS: In Pieces

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: 116 Cameras; They Took Them Alive; and Asiyeh.

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SHORTS: Inspired Visions

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Slowerblack; All Skate, Everybody Skate; and Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405.

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Shorts: Invoke + Inspire
Jasmijn Schrofer, Maija Blåfield, Katarzyna Gondek, James Q. Chan

Spirituality, art, and memory collide in this ethereal and evocative program. Tarikat, directed by Jasmijn Schrofer, turns the trancelike rhythms and movements of Sufi chanting…

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Shorts: Man + Nature
Jan van Ijken, Amy Nicholson, Eleanor Mortimer, Aaron Schock

Through films both playful and profound, this program explores the sometimes collaborative, sometimes contentious, relationship between humans and the natural world. In The Art of…

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Shorts: One + Nation
Margaret Brown, Nicholas Pilarski and Destini Riley, Maxim Pozdorovkin, AJ Schnack

This powerful program offers an eye-opening look at urgent social issues in the United States, from voting rights and immigration to gun control and incarceration.…

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Shorts: Past + Future
Nathan Reich, Joshua Seftel, Alison Klayman

Recollected pasts and imagined futures converge in this program, which features portraits of three dissimilar artists as they reflect on their careers and their prospects.…

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SHORTS: Reflections

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Las Nubes and The Issue of Mr. O’Dell.

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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 silence of pomegranates
Clara Baj

In a coastal town in Calabria, southern Italy, a woman who prefers to remain anonymous breaks the silence surrounding the issue of abortion in the region.

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