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Lars von Trier challenges fellow filmmaker Jørgen Leth to create five new iterations of his film The Perfect Human, placing a new restriction on each production.
MORE ›The film’s title refers to the luxury rating aspired to by Songdo City, a super-modern metropolis in South Korea. Sonja Lindén’s Five Star Existence is…
MORE ›Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan teenager living in New York City, has prioritized work over school to help support his family back home. Judy, a Cuban-American ICE agent in the Bronx, is grateful for a stable job but struggles with changing priorities in her longtime line of work. With outstanding access and character development, their stories come together in this nuanced account of immigration in the United States today.
MORE ›Gentrification, class war, poverty, gay culture, and free speech all come together under one banner in Flag Wars, a stark journey into the heart of…
MORE ›This cinema verité-style documentary is a fascinating look inside the conflicts that surface when African-American, working-class homeowners are confronted with an influx of white gay…
MORE ›This stark journey into the heart of a divided community documents the gentrification of an African American working-class neighborhood in Ohio, where the white newcomers are mostly gay. Festival Year: 2003
MORE ›North Carolina is suffering from historic drought. But a drought isn’t just about a lack of rain. It’s not just a natural disaster. It is…
MORE ›Mother Ksenya, an 83-year-old nun in a convent in Jersualem, reflects on her remarkable life and she embarks on one final challenge: silence.
MORE ›Plastic surgeon and cancer survivor Dr. S. Dicksheet spends six months of every year performing cleft lip surgeries for free in his native India, where…
MORE ›The lives of a group of Romanian shepherds change when a hang-gliding business opens near their pastures. The German owner-operators and the shepherds maintain an…
MORE ›On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway. Dropped at the edge of the world, they must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions.
MORE ›Think of Michael Apted’s 7-Up series springing not from class-conscious Britain but from Haight-Ashbury. Four-year-old Sean was a street-smart, pot-smoking child of original hippies, descended…
MORE ›This vivid firsthand account of years on the open seas brings a sailing family’s adventures to life through their own 16mm footage.
MORE ›Looking beyond the pastoral images gracing grocery store shelves, director Robert Kenner serves up a revealing look at the way food is produced in America.…
MORE ›This astonishing film of the national pilgrimage of disabled people and their caregivers from Poland to Lourdes by train—under the auspices of Catholic clergy—is the…
MORE ›When her mother suddenly passes away, eight-year-old Lulu finds strength in her father, brothers, and stuffed animal, Rabbit.
MORE ›Five families struggle with the tension between faith, cultural expectations, and sexual orientation in this illuminating documentary. The filmmaker has crafted an emotional quilt stitched…
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