Films
This short documents a West Virginia town caught between transitional pressures: an abandoned naval base is up for auction, and the NSA occupies a station just down the road. What will become of the locals for whom this place is home?
MORE ›Rendered in evocative black and white, this intimate and artfully shaped documentary follows Fox Rich, who, during desperate times, took part in the attempted robbery of a Shreveport, Louisiana, credit union with her husband, Rob. Released after three years, Fox returns home to raise their sons and take on the relentless fight for Rob’s release, shooting home videos for him while becoming a formidable advocate and entrepreneur.
MORE ›In this brief film, Alfred Guzzetti dissects a single image taken by his amateur-photographer father seventy-three years ago. The photograph, taken at night, features an…
MORE ›Nominated for an Academy Award® in 1966, A Time for Burning offers an earnest look at race relations during the civil rights era. Commissioned by…
MORE ›McElwee’s films share a trenchant focus on family combined with a consistent attachment to the element of surprise. This film begins with marriage, continues with…
MORE ›Ross McElwee begins Time Indefinite at his family barbecues at its annual reunion on the deck of a North Carolina beach house. The assembly of…
MORE ›Twelve filmmakers, six from Turkey and six from the United States, come together to take part in this omnibus film. Some approaches literal, others more…
MORE ›Former doper and Tour de France champion David Millar is clean and ready to win the right way. This sensory ride travels alongside him for every breath, turn, and fall, through the thrills and hardships of professional cycling.
MORE ›This is a quiet love story. Beautiful, intimate, and deeply tender, it unfolds from the pages of a photograph album, in gentle words, in caresses.…
MORE ›On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history hit the Gulf Coast region. Sixteen people, seven dogs, and eight cats took shelter…
MORE ›An upper-crust photographer lugs her large-format camera into the surrealistically posh homes of wealthy Europeans and comes away with astonishing images. Saturated with color and…
MORE ›This 1959 genre classic pits megalomaniacal, LSD-dropping scientist Vincent Price against the underwhelming eponymous monster, a parasitic (rubber) worm that lies dormant in everyone’s spine…
MORE ›An intense, purely observational look at the stark conditions of inmate life in the 1960s at the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts.
MORE ›Brimming with symbolic imagery, Titixe is a beautiful and patient montage of a family’s last harvest in Mexico.
MORE ›Meet Jojo, Nathalie, and the other children who attend a one-room school in the rolling French countryside. Their classroom is noticeably quieter than American ones.…
MORE ›The time is August 2005. A teenage New Orleans brass band, playing borrowed and taped-together instruments on the corner of Bourbon and Canal Streets, is…
MORE ›Three students from the South Bronx find respite from their daily struggles when they enroll in a high school poetry class.
MORE ›Following a father’s years-long battle against deportation, To Be Reconciled offers a heart-wrenching portrait of a family living through the anguish of uncertainty with faith and resolve.…
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