Films
From the turmoil of war in Afghanistan to the anguish of recovery back home, this film captures what war feels like to a Marine.
MORE ›While Helmut Newton shoots his iconic high fashion photographs, his wife June shoots him with her video camera. She tells us her story—and his—with charm,…
MORE ›An insightful examination of typography, graphic design, and global visual culture through the lens of the iconic typeface. Festival Year: 2007
MORE ›The history and impact of the ubiquitous typeface, from its origins in Swiss International style to its proliferation around the world in corporate and institutional…
MORE ›Jacques Richard pays tribute to one of the most important and overlooked figures in film history in this engrossing and lovingly sprawling portrait of French…
MORE ›A portrait of the immensely appealing and articulate activist Henry Spira and his successful media-savvy campaigns for animal rights against such formidable foes as chicken…
MORE ›Using brand-new portable video technology, a pioneering collective of 1970s radicals captures counterculture happenings ignored by TV network news.
MORE ›Almost two decades after her mother’s suicide, filmmaker Kathy Leichter delves into a trove of audiotapes recorded by her mother and uncovers candid documentation of her struggles with mental illness.
MORE ›Jackie Sumell is inspired most by the lives of everyday people. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work transcends the boundaries of art and activism in…
MORE ›A film about two-time Olympian Chris Ernst, who galvanized her rowing team to storm the Yale athletic director’s office in 1976 to protest the lack…
MORE ›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…
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