Films


Taylor Chain
Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn

In stirring 16mm, this portrait of a seven-week strike at a small steel chain factory offers remarkable access to picket line confrontations, tumultuous union meetings, and conflict-ridden negotiations.

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The Team
Patrick Reed

Can a TV soap opera about a soccer team bring unity to Kenya, still reeling from the tribal strife touched off by the 2007 elections?

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Teatro Amazonas
Sharon Lockhart

Experimental documentarian Sharon Lockhart puts her camera on the stage of a Buenos Aires opera house and points it at the audience. From this simple…

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Teenagers Under the Gun

An A&E investigative report that focuses on several teenagers who’ve committed extremely violent crimes. One blames the movie Natural Born Killers; another blames the lyrics…

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Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
Massoud Bakhshi

This self-reflexive musical/comedy/documentary imaginatively juxtaposes eye-opening archival material, painterly contemporary footage, and mock interviews to create a breathtaking fusion of Koyaanisqatsi’s hypnotic visual aesthetics and…

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Television Event
Jeff Daniels

On November 20, 1983, ABC broadcasted The Day After to 100 million people, setting a record for the highest-rated made-for-TV film. Set in the small…

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Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy

When international forces pull out of Afghanistan in 2014, the ill-equopped troops of the Afghan National Army take over control of the extremely dangerous Helmand Province.

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Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Stanley Nelson

A monumental, essential, and compelling survey of the history and cultural significance of HBCUs in America.

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Tell Them Who You Are
Mark Wexler

Part biography, part autobiography, Mark Wexler’s film goes inside his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler. Alternately humorous and tragic, the…

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The Tempest of Neptun
Katarina Stankovic

On the Croatian island of Vis, a pan-social cast of characters engage in a stormy debate on their future, reminding us of the loss of both storytelling and listening cultures. Fishermen, youth, workers, intellectuals, the mayor, and the wealthy South African owner of the deteriorating cannery “Neptun” build up the main character of the film which is the collective culture of memory and empathy.

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Tempting Promises
Chiara Campara, Lorenzo Faggi

A small town tucked quietly away in the Italian Alps is chosen to host the 2016 Wikimania conference—an annual meeting of international Wikipedia contributors—and the townspeople unite to welcome the newcomers and the new technological age. North American Premiere

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Tempus Fugit
Brian Rigney Hubbard

Time is not what is appears to be in this masterfully elegant short. A man climbs the steep stairs of a clock tower in New…

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The Term
Alexei Pivovarov, Pavel Kostomarov, Alexander Rastorguev

This chaotic, farcical document of the rising tide of protest against Vladimir Putin’s rule in Russia centers around three young leaders of the opposition movement.

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Territory
Eleanor Mortimer

In Gibraltar, tensions flare when unruly monkeys intrude upon the domesticated lifestyle of their human neighbors.

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The Territory
Alex Pritz

The Uru-eu–wau-wau people have lived in the Amazonian rainforest for generations, but it wasn’t until 1981 that they had their first contact with the outside…

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Terry Sanford and the New South
Thomas Lennon

It was a pivotal time in American history: the Brown v. Board of Education decision had been reached, yet segregation still reigned, particularly in Southern…

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Test Site
Jesper Wachtmeister

A series of vignettes shows how people live in the desert wildernesses of the American West, and the effect it has on their minds.

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Texas Hospitality
Michael Pfaendtner

Steak? Caviar? Blueberry pancakes? Perhaps all three? Golden Corral for the rich and famous? Not exactly. Based on information from the Texas Department of Corrections’…

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