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In The Farm, life at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, is seen through the eyes of both its wardens and its prisoners—many of whom will die there—with disturbing parallels to plantation life.
MORE ›In The Farm, life at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, is seen through the eyes of both its wardens and its prisoners—many of whom will die there—with disturbing parallels to plantation life.
MORE ›A small community in Long Island is torn apart by the sudden arrival of thousands of undocumented migrant workers on their idyllic suburban shores. Some…
MORE ›Fast, Cheap & Out of Control may be Errol Morris’s most unusual work yet. Morris himself calls it “the ultimate low concept movie—a film that…
MORE ›Small-town, backroads middle America is the playing field for the barnstorming teams of the fastpitch softball league. Filmmaker Jeremy Spear signs on as shortstop with…
MORE ›With its deceptively restrained tone, this film investigates a father’s passing through edited home movies laid over with a contemporary soundtrack in which family members…
MORE ›With its deceptively restrained tone, this film investigates a father’s passing through edited home movies and a contemporary soundtrack in which family members talk about the father’s life. Festival Year: 2004
MORE ›A small town café is measured by far more than its menu. At Fatmans in Winston-Salem, NC, regulars look forward to the coffee or a…
MORE ›Filmed in Harar, the rural Ethiopian town where director Jessica Beshir grew up, Faya Dayi takes as its subject the khat trade, borrowing its title…
MORE ›This gripping film allows a convicted murderer who spent two decades on death row to tell his own story—leaving the truth open to interpretation.
MORE ›The story of four college students who, on February 1, 1960, began a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro is widely regarded as…
MORE ›When indie comic artist Matt Furie’s creation Pepe the Frog is co-opted by the alt-right, the formerly carefree amphibian becomes an involuntary symbol of hate. Feels Good Man documents the trajectory of Pepe’s online renown to explore an illustrator’s quest to reclaim his character and the liabilities of our cyber culture.
MORE ›In 2006, Congress passed the Secure Fence Act, authorizing the U.S. government to build a 700-mile fence along its Mexico border. Its ostensible purpose was…
MORE ›An enthralling meditation on the ruling passion of four Cuban men who train and fight cocks. Part ethnography, part character study, Fidel’s Fight builds to…
MORE ›One of the more outlandish figures in country music’s Outlaw Movement, singer-songwriter David Allen Coe embodies the American spirit of fierce independence. He’s a reformed…
MORE ›This extraordinary fight movie, starring Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, tracks Ali’s first effort to reclaim his heavyweight title from Frazier after it was stripped…
MORE ›In this on-the-ground film composed of four timely and wrenching narratives, five ACLU lawyers work tirelessly to defend civil liberties. Whether reuniting a parent and child separated at the border or fighting for reproductive rights, voting rights, or the right of a transgender soldier to keep his job, these underappreciated warriors of the courtroom battle on, often at personal cost.
MORE ›This was the fight of the century. Heavyweight boxers American Joe Lewis and Germany’s darling Max Schmelling fought twice in the mid-thirties. The Fight tells…
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