Films


A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich
Oksana Dvornichenko, Helga Landauer

The Soviet Union’s most famous composer took a sea voyage to America near the end of his life. This remarkable documentary is structured around his…

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Journey’s End
Jean-François Caissy

In this elegy filmed in a country retirement home—on a beautiful bluff in rural Quebec—two dozen seniors live out their final years to the slow rhythms of the changing seasons.

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Journeys
Vinayan Kodoth

Bombay train. Sprawl, shanty, skyscraper, rail sardines. Strap-hanger’s watch at 9:15. Harbor, bus, bottleneck, Buddha. Another rail-yard corpse—is that ten today? Magic hour Mumbai. Filmmaker…

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Journeys with George
Alexandra Pelosi

NBC News producer Alexandra Pelosi’s video diary of her year-and-a-half-long road trip with George W. Bush, and the rest of the 2000 presidential campaign bubble.…

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Joybubbles
Rachael J. Morrison

A boy discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.

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The Judge
Erika Cohn

Devoted to the law and unwilling to mince words, Kholoud Al-Faqih is the first female judge in the family court system of the West Bank, navigating its bureaucracy and providing a rare glimpse into Islamic courts and gendered justice.

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Julia’s Stepping Stones
Julia Reichert, Steve Bognar

Pioneering filmmaker Julia Reichert, who passed away in 2022, shares the intimate story of her youth, as a working-class girl, and how she began to dream of a larger life for herself, coming to embrace her working-class identity, and discovering feminism, documentary filmmaking, and her own voice. This luminous short film was edited and completed by Julia’s partner Steven Bognar.

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Junk Palace
Lyon Forrest Hill

The tragic and poignant story of the Collyer brothers, the world’s most famous hoarders, told through remarkable paper puppets that move through intricate handmade sets.

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Justice for Sale
Ilse van Velzen, Femke van Velzen

A young soldier has been convicted of raping the wife of a general in Congo. He’s serving time in jail and his own wife has…

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Justice in the Coalfields
Anne Lewis

Members of the United Mine Workers take over the Pittston Coal Company and wait for the cops to attack in this verité recounting of one of the most important labor struggles of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Juvies
Liz Garbus

From the filmmaker of The Farm, Juvies is a compassionate and harrowing examination of the journeys of three young men through Maryland’s Juvenile Justice System:…

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Kabul Transit
David Edwards, Gregory Whitmore

A sensual meditation on life, war, and notions of progress in a city pummeled by decades of war, the film meanders more than it asserts.…

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Kameelah Janan Rasheed: The Edge of Legibility
Carrie Hawks

Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s artistic practice plays with the English language, exploring that space between what is immediately intelligible and what is deliberately opaque. Displayed on…

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Karaoke Fever
Arthur Borman, Steve Danielson

Some people sing in the shower and have dreams of being the next Barbara Streisand, Phantom of the Opera, or Blues Brother. Forget Star Search…

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Kate Plays Christine
Robert Greene

Actress Kate Lyn Sheil relocates to Sarasota, Florida, to research her role as Christine Chubbuck, the news reporter who committed suicide on air in 1974.

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Katka
Helena Třeštíková

For 14 years a young woman on the streets of Prague has struggled to overcome her drug addiction. Will her unborn child make the difference now?

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Kedi
Ceyda Torun

A glimpse into the lives of Istanbul’s cats, and the humans who’ve become attached to these feline wanderers.

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Kid Auto Races at Venice
Henry Lehrman

At a “baby-cart” race in Venice, California, in 1914, vehicles speed down city streets while packed crowds line the curbs. Charlie Chaplin makes his appearance…

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