Films
Noam Shuster Eliassi grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment by challenging her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.
MORE ›In Romania, an intrepid team of journalists uncover vast corruption across the medical industry—a conspiracy to traffic in diluted hospital disinfectant that results in the deaths of many innocent patients and involves product manufacturers and distributors, hospital managers, government officials, and business moguls. With remarkable access, Collective boldly traces the personal risks involved in bringing the truth to light.
MORE ›Inspired by Man Ray’s “rayographs,” Color Cry was made with what Lye called a “shadow cast.” This consists of placing objects directly on film and…
MORE ›“Eshk,” the word for “love” in Farsi, defies translation into western mystical vocabulary because it refers to both divine and earthly forms of love. Set…
MORE ›A deeply moving and disturbing film that follows four patients at the Center for Head Injuries at JFK Medical Center during the course of one…
MORE ›A black and white short about a beagle trainer in Hillsborough, North Carolina, whose pack of hounds chase rabbits (but don’t hurt them). The sounds…
MORE ›An unexpectedly funny and joyful love story, poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley navigate life and mortality in the face of an incurable diagnosis.
MORE ›Seattle society photographer Edward S. Curtis forsook a lucrative studio and finally the security of his family and approval of his peers in his thirty-year…
MORE ›It’s a small world after all. Young girls in Poland apparently harbor the same dreams of beauty, fame, and stardom as young girls here in…
MORE ›The migration portrayed in this stirring film is from independent living to a nursing home. Filmmaker Deborah Hoffman diligently documents the cruel progression of her…
MORE ›This delightful film takes us to four very unusual places where movie exhibitors devote their lives to programming and celebrating cinema in a pre-digital, sprocketed…
MORE ›Film Noir meets documentary in a gripping, ironic tour-de-force about a brilliant con artist impersonating a Princeton track star. The filmmaker retraces James Hogue’s fraudulent…
MORE ›This film examines the making of the spectacular Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It provides intimate access to the participants, their intentions and interaction, as…
MORE ›“I want to make a confession. I used my camera as a weapon to manipulate a now defenseless person and she has been haunting me…
MORE ›An animated short documentary about thirty-something women who confront the biggest question of their lives while the biological clock is ticking.
MORE ›Academy Award-winning director and actress, Lee Grant, has created a moving account of the complex and sometimes dismal state of child care in late 20th…
MORE ›Tom Whiteside has carefully assembled archival footage shot by itinerant filmmaker H. Lee Waters in Kannapolis, Troy, and Chapel Hill from 1936 to 1941. A…
MORE ›A kinetic portrait of the American Artist Ray Johnson (1927-95), driving force behind the New York Correspondence School, which started in the early 1960s. Johnson…
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