Films


I for India
Sandhya Suri

Forty years ago, Yash Pal Suri left his home and extended family in India to pursue his medical studies in England. He bought two sets…

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I Send You This Place
Andrea Sisson, Peter Ohs

Part enigmatic love letter, part existential exploration, I Send You This Place takes the viewer to and from Iceland in search of clues to a…

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I Will Marry the Whole Village
Zeljko Mirkovic

Serbian accordion player Pekka plots connubial bliss for his village’s surplus of unmarried men. And, it’s a musical!

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I’ll Make Me a World
I’m a Candidate
Banks Tarver

During the 2000 elections, more than 300 new candidates ran against incumbents in political races—only six won. In the tradition of verité campaign films, this…

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I’m a Pro Wrestler
Banks Tarver

Big, greasy bodies bouncing off of one another on curiously springy mats constitutes most of what the uninitiated know about professional wrestling and the World…

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I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
Klára Tasovská

After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey toward freedom, capturing her experiences in thousands of subjective photographs.

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I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
Lauren Lazin

This film is an unusual and nontraditional take on the Holocaust. Journals kept by German and Eastern European teens during World War II were salvaged…

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I, Destini
Nicholas Pilarski, Destini Riley

This animated short takes us inside the experiences of a young woman as she confronts the wrenching impact incarceration has had on her family.

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Ida B. Wells
William Greaves

Narrated by Toni Morrison, this film tells the story of Ida B. Wells, pioneering African-American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the late 19th…

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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Marshall Curry

An environmental activist driven to increasingly extreme methods of protest faces profound political consequences in the wake of 9/11.

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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Marshall Curry

An environmental activist driven to increasingly extreme methods of protest faces profound political consequences in the wake of 9/11.

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If You Build It
Patrick Creadon

Innovative teachers, striving students, and a radical curriculum in Bertie County, N.C., are chronicled over the course of one transformative year.

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If You Build It
Patrick Creadon

Innovative teachers, striving students, and a radical curriculum in Bertie County, N.C., are chronicled over the course of one transformative year.

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If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now
Diane Bonder

Fake but utterly convincing news stories about ordinances, a proposed memorial, local disputes and conflict, and much more, read against picturesque images and scenes of…

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Il Capo
Yuri Ancarani

This stunning cinematic short follows an Italian machinery conductor as he deftly directs his crew to carve marble out of the mountain.

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Il Capo
Yuri Ancarani

This stunning cinematic short follows an Italian machinery conductor as he deftly directs his crew to carve marble out of a mountain. Festival Year: 2011

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The Illinois Parables
Deborah Stratman

This visionary compilation unpacks the state in eleven chapters, spanning different histories to explore social attachments to religion, violence, and the land itself.

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