Films


Square Grouper: Godfathers of Ganja
Billy Corben

A lively look at the eccentric South Florida marijuana smugglers in the 70s and 80s who helped spark the present legalization movement.

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St-Henri, the 26th of August (À St-Henri le 26 août)
Shannon Walsh

This film promises to do for Montreal what Richard Linklater’s Slacker did for Austin, only with a French Canadian accent. This kaleidoscopic romp through a…

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The Staircase
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

When most of the nation thinks of the Peterson trial they think Scott Peterson and a messy murder in California. But North Carolinians know another.…

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STALINGRAD — Die Trilogie: 1. Der Angriff 2. Der Kessel 3. Der Untergang
Sebastian Dehnhardt, Joerg Muellner, Christian Deick, Manfred Oldenburg

The historic Battle of Stalingrad as it has never been seen before. German and Soviet soldiers who survived the battle tell the haunting story of…

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Stand Like Still Living
Peter Jordan

Stand Like Still Living is short, it’s lyrical, it’s bittersweet, it’s full of life–and death. Above all, just like the lives it touches, it is…

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Starless Dreams
Mehrdad Oskouei

With rawness and candor, young women in an Iranian juvenile detention center reflect on the crimes they have committed and the harsh circumstances that have shaped them.

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Startup.com
Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim

Startup.com traces the paths of two freewheeling entrepreneurs and their quest for the new American dream: developing a successful Internet start-up company. A timely film…

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Startup.com
Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim

In the late 1990s, two high school friends attempt to turn the spark of an idea into a multimillion-dollar company. But when passion leads to tension, and the dot-com rush gives way to the dot-com bust, will they be able to deliver on their dream?

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State of Weightlessness
Maciej J. Drygas

Soviet cosmonauts, and their experiences: what it’s like to float above the world, both physically and psychologically; the awkwardness of trying to eat, brush teeth,…

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Stay Prayed Up
D.L. Anderson, Matt Durning

Lena Mae Perry is a treasure, one of North Carolina’s storied gospel singers whose career spans decades. As one of the founders and last original…

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Steal This Story, Please!
Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

Amy Goodman takes on soldiers, politicians, and corporate media in a fearless pursuit of truth.

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Steel Homes
Eva Weber

Eva Weber, the award-winning director of City of Cranes,offers us a delicate meditation on memory, impermanence, and self. In an unnamed storage warehouse in an…

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STEP
Amanda Lipitz

This inspiring film follows three members of the Lethal Ladies step-dance team at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. With the support of their intrepid coach and an uncompromising counselor, they are determined to attend college.

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STEP
Amanda Lipitz

This inspiring film follows three members of the Lethal Ladies step-dance team at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. With the support of their intrepid coach and an uncompromising counselor, they are determined to attend college.

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Steps to Eternity
Daniel Goldberg

In this enthralling film, which consists of one 27-minute-long take, a routine morning walk becomes a journey of transcendence.

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Stevie
Steve James

Stevie Fielding, the victim/victimizer at the center of the film, is surrounded by a web of neighbors, helpers and kin whose distinct voices and unschooled…

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Stevie
Steve James

Ten years later, Steve James visits a young man to whom he was a Big Brother and finds him at a turbulent crossroads in his life.

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Still a Brother: Inside the Black Middle Class
William Greaves

Although it was made over three decades ago, this examination of the black American middle class remains a landmark documentary. Made to challenge negative stereotypes…

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