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In Harm’s Way is an intensely personal documentary that explores the concept of safety within the context of a society that sometimes gives rise to…
MORE ›An affecting portrait of the filmmaker’s own life story, told through striking contemporary images and excerpts from the “safety first” films shown in school classrooms during the 1950s and 60s. Festival Year: 1998
MORE ›In a 2006 interview, St. Clair Bourne professed his admiration for those who fight against the forces of social and economic oppression. Amiri Baraka, the…
MORE ›Trainers at the Bronxchester Boxing Club offer neighborhood kids respite from the mean streets with their rigorous but loving instruction. Conversation following screening with filmmakers and guest Angel Alejandro.
MORE ›In My Corner is an intimate and explosive portrait of what it means for young men to come of age within the world of a…
MORE ›A wonderful autobiography showing one woman’s rebellion against her very traditional Moroccan family. Full of surprises and lyrical beauty, the film undermines the rules the…
MORE ›Prodigy composer Jason Moran revisits bebop jazz great Thelonious Monk’s historic 1959 Town Hall big band concert in this sizzling film.
MORE ›Challenging Western society’s most basic preconceptions about the nature of silence, this film conjures up innovative ways to help us hear what we’ve been missing.
MORE ›This film is a deeply satisfying gift to the viewer in honor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 250th birthday. The composer’s personal life and music are…
MORE ›In 1981 when Marco Williams is a senior in college, he places a call to his estranged father, hoping to arrange a first meeting. It’s…
MORE ›This intensely revealing biography of writer Lucy Daniels expands the documentary form with
its imaginative visualization of the stresses of her early life.
This exquisite black-and-white portrait cpatures the choreography of coexistence, revealing simple details of a longstanding couple’s day-to-day life in rural Sweden.
MORE ›Awed by sound’s restorative powers, Wolfgang Fasser, a blind music therapist, runs a retreat where sonic vibrations vivify the comatose and soothe the anguished.
MORE ›Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem arrived in the U.S. at the age of eight under another girl’s name, and so began a tale of deception and amnesia that led her back to South Korea forty years later in search of the―real Cha Jung Hee.
MORE ›This beautifully crafted film follows the construction of a massive highway in Mexico City. The Pefiférico freeway, which directs throngs of vehicles around the sprawling…
MORE ›For decades, reclusive artist Henry Darger immersed himself in a magical world. This film brings his incredible fantasies
to life.
Henry Darger’s life work was an illustrated novel with 15,000 pages—but no one else knew about it until he died in 1972. Director Jessica Yu…
MORE ›On the eve of 2020, thousands gathered in Wuhan to welcome the new year. Unbeknownst to them, their celebration was ammunition for COVID-19. Director Nanfu…
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