Films
Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time and water.
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.…
MORE ›In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.
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