Films
This thoughtful and affecting film chronicles the recovery of Jason Crigler, a young musician and father-to-be, after a devastating brain hemorrhage leaves him in a…
MORE ›Meet Mauricio, a lifeguard on a popular Chilean beach. Driven by fierce dedication to safety rules and regulations, Mauricio frustrates beachgoers and his seemingly lackadaisical…
MORE ›Phranc (that’s a hard “c”)—the all-American Jewish, lesbian, folk-singing, surfing, Tupperware lady—spent the last twenty years trashing gender stereotypes and touring the world with punk…
MORE ›Born into the “untouchable” caste, an an Indian girl challenges her fate by entering a government-subsidized (and unfortunately, corrupt) boxing program.
MORE ›Photography, fractured memories, and family secrets converge in a visually poignant exploration that delves into the effects of absent father figures throughout a family tree.
MORE ›A Taiwanese American filmmaker questions her family’s silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Light of the Setting Sun is a poetic family portrait of what’s been left unsaid.
MORE ›Durham filmmaker Josh Gibson (Kudzu Vine) returns to Full Frame with Light Plate, a black-and-white celluloid essay illustrating and conjuring vistas of the Italian countryside.…
MORE ›An on the road journey with comedienne Lily Tomlin and her collaborator Jane Wagner as they mount her Tony Award-winning, one-woman show, The Search for…
MORE ›How do we muster the courage to face a diagnosis of cancer—especially when our child is the patient? A Lion in the House focuses on…
MORE ›Filmed over six years, this unflinching film lays bare the experiences of five young people who are battling pediatric cancer. We witness the toll of weeks spent in the hospital and the wrenching side effects of treatment, but also how the children, their families, and caregivers are living with humor and grace.
MORE ›With the support of family and friends, a young woman takes the daring step of determining whether she carries the genetic marker for Huntington’s disease.
MORE ›Meet the members of Team Lioness, the military heroines of one of the most important untold stories of the Iraq war. As per official military…
MORE ›An under the microscope look at the multicolored molecular structures of liquid crystals.
MORE ›This excavation of the private thoughts of one of Hollywood’s public stars, Marlon Brandon, is composed entirely or archival materials, most notably audio messages the actor recorded to himself.
MORE ›After becoming lost on the plains, Howard (Dustin Hoffman) is taken in by a Cheyenne tribe. When the white men invade the tribe many years…
MORE ›Workers at the Lusty Lady, a notorious peepshow theater in San Francisco, set out to form the only strippers’ union in the United States.
MORE ›Welcome to the cat-walking, makeup-wearing, big-haired world of child beauty pageants. This film goes beyond the usual stereotypes and behind the pageant smiles to follow…
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