Films
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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›Dante’s Inferno meets industrialization in a cinematic allegory that explores the environmental ravages and human costs of coal mining in China.
MORE ›Meet Kevin Clash, the incredible talent behind one of the most beloved puppets of all time.
MORE ›From motorcycles to rockets, from hustler to Johnny Carson’s couch, Evel Knievel’s real triumph spanned more than 14 Greyhound buses.
MORE ›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
MORE ›Amateur detective and dance fanatic Rajesh Ji races around Kolkata solving crimes with his ragtag crew of friends.
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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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