Films


Beautiful Son
Julianne Yamamoto King, Don King

The filmmakers of Beautiful Son are the parents of Beau, whose change in behavior during the third year of his life led to a diagnosis…

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The Beauty Academy of Kabul
Liz Mermin

After 1996, in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Taliban forbade women to work outside the home and required them to appear in public fully…

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Beauty Before Age
Johnny Symons

Beauty Before Age offers a unique look at ageism within the gay community in the San Francisco Bay area. Through interviews with both older and…

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Beauty Is Embarrassing
Neil Berkeley

Meet Wayne White—affable Emmy award-winning artist and profane, prolific iconoclast full of energy and southern verve. You may recognize his incredibly creative artwork from Pee-wee’s…

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Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Jessica Oreck

Insects have long been honored in Japan—samurai warriors embroidered the dragonfly, the victory insect, on their armor, and the songs of suzumushi (crickets) have been…

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Before Leaving
Marie de Laubier

A luminous, unsentimental portrayal of a charismatic, indefatigable woman, and of the lives (and one death) of the personalities and conditions (including Alzheimer’s) of the…

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Beginning Filmmaking
Jay Rosenblatt

For her fourth birthday, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt surprises his daughter Ella with a video camera. He is eager to teach her how to come up…

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Behemoth
Zhao Liang

Dante’s Inferno meets industrialization in a cinematic allegory that explores the environmental ravages and human costs of coal mining in China.

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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
Constance Marks

Meet Kevin Clash, the incredible talent behind one of the most beloved puppets of all time.

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Being Evel
Daniel Junge

From motorcycles to rockets, from hustler to Johnny Carson’s couch, Evel Knievel’s real triumph spanned more than 14 Greyhound buses.

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Bending Lines: The Sculpture of Robert Wiggs
Peter DeHart, Allison Bohl DeHart

Inspired by the geometry of nature—from the cracks in dried mud to the structure of pine cones to the scales on armadillos—Wiggs’s artistic process reveals the intriguing interplay between mathematics and art. World Premiere

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The Bengali Detective
Phil Cox

Amateur detective and dance fanatic Rajesh Ji races around Kolkata solving crimes with his ragtag crew of friends.

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Benjamin Smoke
Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen

Benjamin Smoke is a haunting portrait of Robert Dickerson, known as Benjamin, lead singer of the Atlanta-based band Smoke. Made with a filmmaking approach as distinctive as…

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Benjamin Smoke
Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen

A portrait of the band Smoke’s lead singer unfolds through a patchwork of still images, rehearsal and performance footage, black-and-white collages, and interviews with Benjamin himself. Festival Year: 2001

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Berga: Soldiers of Another War
Charles E. Guggenheim

Charles E. Guggenheim dedicated the last six months of his life to finishing this film. This is a story about his fellow American infantrymen, who…

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Bertha Alyce
Gay Block

A significant part of artist Gay Block’s creative existence has been devoted to painstakingly documenting the actions, words, and bodily transfigurations of her mother Bertha…

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Bessie: A Portrait of Bessie Schonberg
Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker

Bessie Schonberg was an icon of the performing arts, a true and good woman and a powerful force in the American dance movement in the…

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Best Man
Ira Wohl

Those of us who loved Ira Wohl’s Best Boy, especially Philly, the subject of that documentary Memoir, will be enthralled by the continuation of his…

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