Films
Fanciful dreams meet cold reality as a Scottish family tries to raise American bison far from their native grasslands.
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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.…
MORE ›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.
MORE ›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…
MORE ›An intimate look at life on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a waterway teeming with activity and rife with pollution.
MORE ›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.
MORE ›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,…
MORE ›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.
MORE ›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…
MORE ›An unsentimental, deeply moving portrait of a young woman trying to live a “normal life” despite having a rare, often fatal, skin disease.
MORE ›A visually stunning film in which a Tajikistani shepherd must confront momentous changes both at home and in his beloved sport of Buzkashi.
MORE ›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.
MORE ›Three fathers-to-be share their hopes, dreams, and anxieties as they anticipate the birth of their
children.
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…
MORE ›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.
MORE ›“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…
MORE ›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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