Films


Surfing Soweto
Sara Blecher, Dimi Raphoto

There are many ways to surf a train. Three young men in South Africa risk their lives almost daily to achieve the ultimate adrenalin rush…

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Surfwise
Doug Pray

Trading in a budding medical career for surfing in the 1950s, Dr. Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz has built his own way of life. After a year of…

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Surveillance 3
William Noland

On the last night of the 2004 Republic Convention in New York City, time slows impossibly and sound is distorted beyond comprehension. A young man…

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Surviving Hitler: A Love Story
John-Keith Wasson

This riveting love story, anchored in a plot to kill Hitler during the height of his power, offers an eye-opening look at life under the Third Reich.

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Sustainability Now

At their recent “Getting Real” conference, the International Documentary Association began a series of conversations on sustainability for the documentary film field. With the NEA, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS once again on the chopping block for federal funding, how do documentary filmmaking professionals respond?

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Swallow
Genevieve Bicknell

Eating: a pleasant or unpleasant task? Food: tasty and bubbling or oozy and disgusting?

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The Sweatbox
John-Paul Davidson, Trudie Styler

Ever wonder what happens in the Magical Kingdom of Disney animation? The Sweatbox steps inside those gilded gates with pop artist icon Sting as he…

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Sweet Crude
Sandy Cioffi

The people of the Niger Delta live in deplorable conditions while billions of dollars’ worth of oil from the region is pumped out to satisfy…

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Sweet Dreams
Eric Scott Latek

Professional boxer Gary “Tiger” Balletto is trying to unionize his fellow boxers and get them health insurance and other worker benefits. His friend Derek Fleming,…

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Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
Stanley Nelson

Emerging from the strong tradition of Freedom Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock is a group that’s as soulfully rich as it is provocative. Using…

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Sweet Monster
Marco De Stefanis

This witty and charming short follows the misadventures of young Davide as he makes repeated trips to his parents’ bedroom to seek relief from the…

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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
Melvin Van Peebles

“They bled my momma, they bled my poppa, but they won’t bleed me.” The refrain echoes throughout Melvin Van Peebles’s infamous and hugely influential film.…

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The Sweetest Sound
Alan Berliner

Tired of being mistaken for others bearing the same name, Alan Berliner decides to rid himself of the “Same Name Syndrome” by inviting all the…

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The Swindler
Åsa Blanck, Johan Palmgren

When Father Mac came ashore in Malmö, Sweden, the locals took him at his word: he was a Catholic archbishop who managed the Vatican’s portfolio…

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The Swirl
Laura Herrero Garvin

As the largely abandoned town of El Remolino in Chiapas, Mexico, struggles to yield viable crops and keep its school open, two siblings remain to battle the rainy season and their painful childhood.

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2
William Greaves

William Greaves brings together two actors and one particularly outspoken member of his crew from Take One to make another film about making a film,…

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
William Greaves

In William Greaves’s experimental, improvisational masterpiece, a second film crew documents the first while they record a series of actors reenacting the same breakup scene…

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
William Greaves

Director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. A couple enacts a break-up scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.

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