Films


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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Ideas of Order
Erin Espelie

A collision between the macro-collapse of ecosystems and the minutiae of cellular colonies, in a story about entropy, unrestrained growth, waltzing mice, earlier-onset cancers, programmed death, and the bacteria that made Earth rich in oxygen—opening up space for life today.

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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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Images of a Dictatorship
Patricio Henriquez

This vivid portrayal of Chile from the 1973 military coup shows terror, demonstrations, repression by the military and police, marches, a state of siege, and…

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Imagining Ulysses
David Blake Knox, Hilary Fennell

Using the 18 chapters of Ulysses as a thematic model of departure, director David Blake Knox weaves in and out of fictional narratives, epic stories…

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The Imposter
Bart Layton

In 1994, a thirteen-year-old boy mysteriously goes missing in Texas. His mother and sister hold out hope for his return, but years pass without word…

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In A Dream
Jeremiah Zagar

Over the last thirty years, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered forty thousand square feet of Philadelphia with grand-scale mosaics. When Zagar’s son Jeremiah picks up…

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In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks

Mixing elements of reality and fiction, In Cold Blood delves into the real-life murders of the Clutter family at the hands of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock in this scripted true-crime cinematic narrative based on Truman Capote’s novel.

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In Country
Mike Attie, Meghan O’Hara

The lines between what’s real and what’s pretend blur as members of a platoon of Vietnam War reenactors go to battle, each for their own complicated reasons.

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