Films


Buffalo Dreams
Maurice O'Brien

Fanciful dreams meet cold reality as a Scottish family tries to raise American bison far from their native grasslands.

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Building a Broken Mousetrap
Jem Cohen

This concert film captures one performance by the Dutch band the Ex, 25-year veterans of the underground avant rock scene. Much like Fugazi, whom Jem…

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Bulletproof Salesman
Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

Fidelis Cloer, a German supplier of luxury armored vehicles and self-confessed war profiteer, found the “perfect war” when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.…

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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Ivy Meeropol

Candid interviews with colleagues and acquaintances trace the infamous late lawyer’s life and career, from his early days as a prosecutor in the still-controversial espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg—director Ivy Meeropol’s grandparents—to his work with Senator Joseph McCarthy to his role as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and mentor.

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Burden of Dreams
Les Blank

This is an extraordinary, renowned documentary about the messianic German director Werner Herzog struggling against desperate odds in the Amazon basin to make his epic…

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Buriganga
Michelle Coomber

An intimate look at life on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a waterway teeming with activity and rife with pollution.

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Burma Soldier
Annie Sundberg, Nic Dunlop, Ricki Stern

This dynamic portrait lays bare the unforgettable story of Myo Myint, a former junta member and Burmese soldier turned pro-democracy activist. Conversation following screening with filmmakers and guest Myo Myint.

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Burma VJ — Reporting from a Closed Country
Anders Østergaard

How do you fight a brutal military dictatorship? Over the years, the cold-blooded rulers of Myanmar have fired on their own citizens during non-violent protests,…

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The Bus
Sandra Reina

This round-trip bus ride takes passengers on Friday mornings towards the weekend and picks them up on Sunday afternoons to take them back to the place where they came from.

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but, the day came
Eugene Richards

This stirring and beautifully photographed short film tells of the last days of Clarence, a Nebraska farmer and patriarch whose family must face putting him…

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Butterfly Girl
Cary Bell

An unsentimental, deeply moving portrait of a young woman trying to live a “normal life” despite having a rare, often fatal, skin disease.

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Buzkashi!
Najeeb Mirza

A visually stunning film in which a Tajikistani shepherd must confront momentous changes both at home and in his beloved sport of Buzkashi.

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Buzz One Four
Matt McCormick

In 1964, a B-52 long-range bomber crashed on a Maryland mountainside with two thermonuclear bombs on board. This suspenseful account, crafted by the pilot’s grandson, skillfully weaves archival footage with personal recollections.

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By Her Side
Niels van Koevorden

Three fathers-to-be share their hopes, dreams, and anxieties as they anticipate the birth of their
children.

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By Invitation Only
Rebecca Snedeker

Most people have heard of Mardi Gras, but few know that within the festival also exists a very private world of high-society balls. Originated by…

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By Sidney Lumet
Nancy Buirski

Weaving an interview with the renowned director together withr ich selections from his oeuvre, this film highlights Lumet’s career and life through his own recollections.

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Bye Bye Babushka
Rebecca Feig

“Farewell Grandmother” reflects on an age gone by through interviews with female survivors of Russia’s revolutionary era. Some of those portrayed: a wise, uneducated collective…

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Caballerango
Juan Pablo González

As family members describe their memories of the events surrounding a young man’s death, long takes quietly observe, through scenes and sounds, a Mexican village experiencing the gradual loss of its traditional ways of life.

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