Films
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.
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MORE ›Why are movies about outrageous con artists so fun to watch? Forbidden Lie$ combines caper with exposé and teems with so many self-serving characters that…
MORE ›A riveting, on-the-ground look at the Oakland Police Department during a period of intense scrutiny and reform, as a new sergeant aims to correct protocol in the wake of charges of misconduct and abuse.
MORE ›The life story of acclaimed Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki is interwoven with excerpts from his poignant legacy lecture at the University of British Columbia.
MORE ›Mysteriously lyrical and brutally realistic, this short documentary explores a curious world containing the “forest queen.” But who is she really, this eccentric elderly woman…
MORE ›Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris is the final resting place of many great artists, writers, and composers, and visitors come daily to bring flowers, tidy…
MORE ›Artist Frank Wong’s detailed dioramas of the Chinatown of his childhood serve as portals to the past in a changing San Francisco.
MORE ›When Richard Minnich was rear-ended in 1990, he emerged unscathed. One week later, he couldn’t remember a thing: not his wife, not his children, nothing.…
MORE ›An astonishingly provocative and haunting tale of two young women who take inordinate risks in Warsaw’s ruthless urbanity to unhinge the course of a bleak,…
MORE ›Through an embodied camera eye that moves freely in the in-between place that is an alley connecting two streets,Fortuneevokes a sense of magical realism and offers texture to the meditation on the Chinese American identity, which can also be characterized as a liminal space.
MORE ›In the wee hours, when electrical demand is down, workers stoke elaborate furnances to produce the steel frames for Steinway pianos.
MORE ›Visually provocative, mysterious and philosophical, acclaimed filmmaker Trinh Minh-ha’s The Fourth Dimension is more than a Japanese travelogue. It is a meditation on life and…
MORE ›A subtly textured self-portrait of Soraya—an Afghan free-spirited 16-year-old artist in Iran who has been trying for five years to make her way to Europe—who chillingly captures everything on her phone while pouring all her fears and worries into extraordinary works of art.
MORE ›Using the metaphor of a foxhole as a place a soldier can feel safe, two Vietnam veterans reflect on how their meeting during the war…
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