Films


Hold Me Close
Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver

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.

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Holding Fast
Mary Harron, John C. Walsh

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…

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Hollywoodgate
Ibrahim Nash’at

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.

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Home of the Brave
Paola di Florio

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…

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Home of the Brave — Land of the Free
John Sullivan

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…

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Home Page
Doug Block

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…

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Homegoings
Christine Turner

This film explores the mind of a man whose heart and passion for the dead inspires our own
appreciation for the human soul.

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Homemade Sake
Satoshi Ono

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…

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Homeroom
Peter Nicks

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…

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Homework
Abbas Kiarostami

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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Hooligan Sparrow
Nanfu Wang

Nanfu Wang documents Chinese activist Ye Haiyan (aka Sparrow) as she protests against a principal’s sexual abuse of young girls.

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Hoop Dreams
Steve James

This deeply moving film follows Arthur Agee, Jr., and William Gates as they strive to achieve professional basketball stardom and escape poverty in Chicago.

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Hoop Dreams
Steve James

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…

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Hoop Dreams at 20

In celebration of the landmark documentary’s 20th anniversary, this panel conversation features insider commentary, rarely seen footage, and special guests.

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Horizons
Eileen Hofer

Three Cuban ballerinas from different generations take center stage in this mesmerizing celebration of dance and discipline.

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The Horseman
Tell Johansson, Peter Gerdehag

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…

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Hostage: The Bachar Tapes
Walid Ra'ad, Souheil Bachar

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…

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Hot Coffee
Susan Saladoff

Former trial lawyer Susan Saladoff tells us what really happened when an Albuquerque woman sued McDonald’s over hot coffee.

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