Films
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.…
MORE ›Nanfu Wang documents Chinese activist Ye Haiyan (aka Sparrow) as she protests against a principal’s sexual abuse of young girls.
MORE ›This deeply moving film follows Arthur Agee, Jr., and William Gates as they strive to achieve professional basketball stardom and escape poverty in Chicago.
MORE ›Steve James’s landmark 1994 documentary follows the early careers of Arthur Agee, Jr., and William Gates, two black teenagers from inner-city Chicago who were recruited…
MORE ›In celebration of the landmark documentary’s 20th anniversary, this panel conversation features insider commentary, rarely seen footage, and special guests.
MORE ›Three Cuban ballerinas from different generations take center stage in this mesmerizing celebration of dance and discipline.
MORE ›Cameraman Peter Gerdehag and editor Tell Johannsson tell the story of Stig-Anders, an old-fashioned farmer in a remote village in Sweden, in pictures as big…
MORE ›Souheil Bachar was kidnapped in Beirut in 1983. He was held in solitary confinement for ten years—except for 27 weeks in 1985, where he was…
MORE ›Former trial lawyer Susan Saladoff tells us what really happened when an Albuquerque woman sued McDonald’s over hot coffee.
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