Films
The High Lonesome Sound weaves a portrait of a region and way of life with the story of Roscoe Holcomb, the extraordinary singer-guitarist whom Eric…
MORE ›Perfectly paced and gracefully rendered, this short film captures the lunar quality of the western winter landscape. Amid the great expanses of sky and snow…
MORE ›A family of circus performers travels across the barren landscape of Central Russia, stopping to perform their extremely seat-of-the-pants act. Then they climb back into…
MORE ›At first glance, he seems just like any other young boy. But seen through the telling lens of his family, Alex is not an “ordinary”…
MORE ›Music producer and turntablist supreme 9th Wonder travels from North Carolina to Massachusetts to become Harvard’s first Hip-Hop Fellow.
MORE ›From the village of Pitões das Júnias in northern Portugal comes a collection of chilling tales about encounters with wolves, the tellers’ eccentricities blurring fact and fiction.
MORE ›“It’s so hard to find a hero anywhere,” says Bret “The Hitman” Hart, a statement not so far off the mark in the world of…
MORE ›A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share.
MORE ›Holding Fast is a reflective essay on landscape, people, and work at a self-help center in Darjeeling, India for Tibetan refugees. Lush images are accompanied…
MORE ›When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
MORE ›Viola Liuzzo was the only white woman murdered during the Civil Rights movement, and her dramatic story provides a somber backdrop to a nuanced family…
MORE ›The reality of US operations in Afghanistan as you’ve never seen them before. An American Special Forces unit travels around the country trying to win…
MORE ›When filmmaker Doug Block decides to document the web, he discovers that the web can document back. Block focuses on Justin Hall, whose hilarious and…
MORE ›This film explores the mind of a man whose heart and passion for the dead inspires our own
appreciation for the human soul.
The director’s father, a painter, brews sake in plastic bottles. The director follows his father through this monotonous process, and also interviews his mother, who…
MORE ›The senior year of high school is a milestone in the lives of many teenagers, often marked by high stress around grades, test scores, college…
MORE ›Disturbed by the education his own children were getting, Kiarostami took his cameras inside an elementary school and talked to the children about their experiences.…
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