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What happens when a nation’s leader also owns its most popular television stations? Director Erik Gandini exposes the startling effects of Silvio Berlusconi’s generation-long influence on Italian politics and culture.
MORE ›Vietnam War video games now abound in stores. In Vietnam Romance Eddo Stern uses machinima to explore the influence of mass-media images on public perceptions…
MORE ›Director Dylan Werkman’s immersive, kaleidoscopic collage covers a lot of ground (and sky) in a short time. Metaphors of ascendance and inspiration are depicted in…
MORE ›Elegantly fusing rigorous reportage with cinematic subjectivity, “Viktor” offers a deeply personal perspective on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A young man living in Kharkiv embarks on a journey to find his place amidst a war he cannot hear and is denied to fight. An audiovisual experience delicately crafted to mirror that of its subject, “Viktor” is a testimony of a Deaf person navigating through chaos and violence.
MORE ›After World War II, Eastern European states attempted to maintain state control over personal expression. In the case of Poland, a special office intercepted, opened,…
MORE ›Stunning black-and-white images set to a score by Philip Glass propel this visceral rumination on humanity’s relationship with an increasingly digital world.
MORE ›An unexpected look at prison life, told through the voices of those on the outside. This intimate film begins in New York City in the…
MORE ›El-Sayed, a Bedouin village nestled in the scenic landscape of the Negev Desert, is home to the largest community of deaf people in the world.…
MORE ›Voices of Perthshire is made from the extraordinary home movies of Emma Knowlton Lytle. Lytle, born on Perthshire Plantation in Bolivar County, Mississippi, in 1910,…
MORE ›The filmmaker and his ninety-one-year-old violinist grandfather travel from France to Morocco on a grand voyage that the latter has been dreaming about for decades.…
MORE ›Suspense and flash mark this story of the New York City steam tunnels and the robot that will meander and tame their labyrinth. High tech…
MORE ›Jessica, an escapee, recollects a friendship shattered by the 2014 kidnapping of 276 Nigerian girls by the Boko Haram.
MORE ›This gripping vérité film is a symphony of patients, caregivers, loved ones, bureaucracy, and hard choices in an Oakland ER’s waiting room. Festival Year: 2012
MORE ›Peter Nicks’s rigorous verité film spends twenty-four hours in an Oakland Emergency Room, his camera evenly maneuvering through the complex environment. A stoic nurse intercepts…
MORE ›Dealing with chronic sleeplessness, filmmaker Boris Van der Avoort undertakes a personal quest to examine his mental and physical space, looking for clues to his…
MORE ›Like all good fairy tales, the inside story of Disney animation’s stunning comeback after years of box-office disappointments features princesses, princes, and villains, as well as love, laughter, and tears.
MORE ›Ukrainian children are confronted with their past as they explore their new home in Germany: a former Wehrmacht military barracks.
MORE ›Join Ken Burns for a special work-in-progress screening of Episode Five from his newest film series, The War. Comprised of seven episodes, The War follows…
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