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A captivating film about one of America’s greatest (and most reclusive) songwriters, Strange Powers is the film you never thought you’d see about the band you’ve always loved—or the film you absolutely must see about the band you’ve always meant to check out.
MORE ›Strange Victory provocatively questions whether the World War II triumph was indeed a victory for all Americans. Hurwitz sets up a discrepancy between the ideals…
MORE ›“They say there are only two stories in the world: man goes on a journey and stranger comes to town.” This statement begins an animated…
MORE ›In the eyes of an artificial mind, the last thirty years of David Rumsey—spent amassing one of the biggest historical maps collections in the world he secretly calls his poem—seem like an unexplainable quest. A Stranger Quest follows him on a road trip confronting the ghosts of his past and the end inching ever closer.
MORE ›A passionate analysis of a murder, more than thirty years ago, of a Canadian filmmaker in Eastern Kentucky. Three stories, of the filmmaker, the “stranger”…
MORE ›In 1967 during the government’s War on Poverty, a visiting filmmaker documenting that campaign was shot and killed by a local Kentucky resident. The search…
MORE ›Full Frame honors the work of legendary filmmaker Richard Leacock. In A Stravinsky Portrait, Richard Leacock captures the composer conducting rehearsals, conversing at home, and otherwise going…
MORE ›In 2001, Newark became the site of a memorable political battle: City Councilman Cory Booker, an Ivy League upstart, took on the incumbent, Mayor Sharpe…
MORE ›When Cory Booker runs against incumbent Sharpe James in 2002’s fierce battle for mayor of Newark, he comes up against an old-school political machine willing to win by any means necessary.
MORE ›In intimate conversations with his parents, and through glorious photography of his routines, an aging acrobat considers the end of his beloved career—his body may let go of the ability to perform before his mind is ready.
MORE ›An uninterrupted stream of East German official newsreels and state films presents an unsettling view of the 40-year era.
MORE ›Strike is Sergei Eisenstein’s first feature, which premiered in 1925 to mixed reactions. It was followed later that year with the acclaimed Potemkin. In this…
MORE ›Four individuals who survived unspeakable trauma in their youth tell their stories, and in doing so, make profound statements about inner strength and empowerment. Festival Year: 1999
MORE ›This taut, gripping short film is a perfect marriage of filmmaking craft and powerful subject matter. Four individuals who survived unspeakable trauma in their youth…
MORE ›Director Yance Ford rigorously unpacks the events surrounding the death of his brother, who was shot in 1992. Profoundly cinematic and deeply personal, their family story is a powerful examination of race in America.
MORE ›Stud Country is the largest queer country western line dancing night in America, continuing a little-known fifty-plus year tradition in Los Angeles. Despite its success and fiercely committed community, due to gentrification, the event is set to lose its venue.
MORE ›Rare footage transports us back in time and behind the velvet rope into the famed Manhattan disco, as a collection of insiders, including one of the co-founders, recall the rise and fall of the pioneering nightclub and iconic cultural landmark.
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