Films


Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sara Driver

This portrait of the pop culture icon revisits the years before he took the art world by storm. Archival footage and intimate stories from a circle of friends, lovers, and neighbors recall both a singular talent and the New York City scene that influenced his career.

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Borat
Larry Charles

“Sacha Baron Cohen, star of HBO’s hit comedy Da Ali G Show, takes his outrageous Kazakhstani reporter character Borat to the big screen. In this…

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The Border
Jaroslav Vojtek

The residents of Slemence wake up one morning to find half their village in Slovakia and the other half in the Ukraine, the random new border dividing family members and friends for the next 60 years.

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Born for Hard Luck — Peg Leg Jackson
Tom Davenport

“High sheriff on my heels, I better be on my way,” sings Peg Leg Sam near the end of Born for Hard Luck — Peg…

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Born Into Brothels
Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski

“The great-grandmother’s a prostitute, the grandmother’s a prostitute, the mother’s a prostitute,” says Zana Briski about one of her photography students. The children of Calcutta’s…

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Born Rich
Jamie Johnson

A look at America’s upper class by one of its own. Both investigative and personal, the film reveals the self-centered arrogance and ruthlessness by which…

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Born Sweet
Cynthia Wade

Vinh is a Cambodian boy sick from arsenic poisoning who knows he may not have long to live but dreams of falling in love and becoming a karaoke star.

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Born to Fly
Catherine Gund

“Action architect” Elizabeth Streb choroegraphs performances that push the human body to extremes in this exhilerating portrait of Streb and her company of dancers as they take to the air.

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The Botanist
Maude Plante-Husaruk, Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis

This breathtaking short follows Raimberdi as he ingeniously constructs a hydroelectric generator to better survive in the mountains of Tajikstan.

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Bouncing Bulldogs
Stephanie Johnes

Durham, North Carolina’s own Bouncing Bulldogs have no peer when it comes to precision jump roping. Boys and girls leap, tumble, whirl, flip and entwine…

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The Boy in the Bubble
Barak Goodman, John Maggio

The stuff of legend in pop culture. David Vetter was a real boy who, due to a rare immune system disorder, was forced to live…

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Boy Interrupted
Dana Perry

From a very young age, Evan Perry was obsessed with death and dying—on vacation, he talked about killing his father with a rifle; when he…

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The Boy Mir — Ten Years in Afghanistan
Phil Grabsky

The mischievous Afghan boy featured in The Boy Who Played on the Buddhas of Bamiyan grows into a still-cheerful young man struggling to make it in a turbulent Afghanistan.

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The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan
Phil Grabsky

Behind the relatively recent international headlines about Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban are the many more stories of everyday people who have lived the…

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A Boy’s Life
Rory Kennedy, Nick Doob

This film delves into the turbulent life of seven-year-old Robert Oliver and his family in impoverished Europa, Mississippi. Robert’s mother turned over custody of both…

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Boys State
Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine

This film dramatically captures the political motivations and strategic calculations of a group of young men who, among a thousand other Texas high school students, take part in a weeklong exercise to build a representative democracy from the ground up.

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The Brandon Teena Story
Greta Olafsdottir, Susan Muska

“Nebraska…the good life.” When 20-year-old Brandon arrived in rural Falls City, his handsome looks and boyish charm won him several friends in town and even…

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Bread Day
Sergei Dvortsevoy

Sergei Dvortsevoy depicts the relentless daily life of a desolate and isolated hamlet in Kurdistan. From a distant fork on the main route, each Tuesday,…

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