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Constructing an Island

Ebba Gustafsson

A mother’s comforting tales of a remote Finnish island is an imagined paradise, but a journey to the island reveals that something is missing. This essayistic documentary explores inherited emotions and behaviors and how spaces can be created to offer the opportunity of reconciliation between generations of women.

Peter Galison, Robb Moss

Issues of waste disposal at three radioactive sites post profound practical and philosophical conundrums for the present and future.

Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim documents Al Jazeera, the independent news outlet based in Qatar. This cinema verité tour-de-force centers on the first days of the war…

It’s 2003, and the United States is on the brink of war with Iraq. Control Room follows journalists of the Al Jazeera satellite channel—broadcasting news to some 40 million Arab viewers—as they try to cut through American rhetoric and awaken the viewers to the realities on the ground.

Controlled Demolition

Quirky and smart, this short film approaches the destruction of two tower blocks in England from all perspectives. One man, forced to leave his home…

Jarred Alterman

This portrait of a magical place explores nature, art, and spirit through a family’s relationship with an ancient monastery and the land.

A Conversation with Gregory Peck

Kopple turns her camera on screen legend Gregory Peck, taking a rare, intimate look at the man behind the famous persona. Cutting between his one-man…

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

Movies about movies have become their own fabulous genre. Entertaining and studded with Hollywood luminaries, Corman’s World traces the astoundingly prolific career of Roger Corman,…

Enter the world of Cornelius, a proper suburban pig, a pig of simple routines and much sweetness, fortunate in his choice of family and human…

A Corner in Wheat

This is an early fiction film of strong social comment. Through use of parallel editing, the film contrasts the harsh life of farmers and the…

Director John Columbus’s introspective look at his childhood summers spent on the Jersey Shore with his parents and sister. The nostalgic black-and-white footage accompanied by…

Countryside 35×45

A slightly salacious Siberian photographer prone to chronic small talk meticulously ensures all the men are appropriately attired and the women properly coiffed for their photos—after all, it is their passport for life, yes?

This white-knuckle spy thriller of a documentary uncovers a horrifying secret in a little seaside town in Japan. To the unsuspecting, Taiji looks like the…

Crafting an Echo

This window into the creative process captures the tense interplay between famed choreographer Andonis Foniadakis and members of the Martha Graham Dance Company as they struggle to prepare a new piece in time for its world premiere.

Believing no being should have to die alone, a young woman creates a hospice for animals, where chickens, sheep, and pigs spend their final days in the embrace of her warmth and compassion.

After a training accident leaves Kevin Pearce with a traumatic brain injury, the intrepid
snowboarder undertakes a remarkable recovery.

Heddy Honigmann

Dutch filmmaker Honigmann explores the horrors of violent conflict through an unusual portal: music. UN soldiers tell of their experiences in various conflicts (Korea, Cambodia,…

New York, 1957: A self-important lawyer, Burt Pugach, falls for a beautiful young woman named Linda Riss. He keeps her on a string, dazzling her…