Films
Not a talking head movie, but a singing nut movie. Witty, clever, and enlightening, The Luckiest Nut in the World whisks the viewer around the…
MORE ›Three minutes of pure joy for any film buff. This film memorializes a woman who has worked for 30 years in front of the camera,…
MORE ›The wife of a human cannonball describes their life in the circus and the ways their love has endured decades of this itinerant lifestyle.
MORE ›A film about Fred Wolfe, 85-year-old brother of author Thomas Wolfe, whose personality and lifestyle were depicted through the character Luke Gant in his brother’s…
MORE ›Luther: Never Too Much, the documentary film, chronicles the story of a vocal virtuoso. Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators including Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson, and Roberta Flack. The film relives the many stunning moments of Luther’s musical career, while exploring his unrequited love life, health struggles, and a lifelong battle to earn the respect his music deserved.
MORE ›“Losing,” says 73-year-old Bill McFadyen, a Scottish competitive powerlifter who can bench-press over 350 pounds, “I don’t tolerate.” Ma Bar is McFadyen’s war cry as…
MORE ›A whimsical Belgian filmmaker discovers a Lumière brothers’ film circa 1897. That silent film shows the old railroad that was used to transport marble from…
MORE ›In the wake of a traumatic childhood, Veera turns to live action role-playing as a method of empowerment and escape. This luminous Nordic film accompanies her into wondrous worlds, the most uncanny of which may ultimately be her own.
MORE ›Join Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters on their legendary, drug-fueled bus adventure across the country in 1964.
MORE ›The Canadian Arctic is the terrestrial, and extraterrestrial, setting for a contemplative survey of transience, from generations-old decay to fleeting particles of light.
MORE ›Orson Welles’s adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about the fall of an “old money” Indianapolis family at the turn of the century resulting in part…
MORE ›With simple patient beauty this film captures the Maha Khumb Mela Festival, a once-every-12 years event in India during which thousands of men come to…
MORE ›They clean other people’s houses and raise other families’ kids—often leaving their own loved ones behind in their Latin American homelands. This film underscores the…
MORE ›Follow teenager Laura Dekker across three oceans and five continents on her journey to become the youngest person to sail around the world—alone.
MORE ›“Mail Myself to You” explores the legacy and future of the correspondence art movement through stop-motion animation and 16mm direct cinema. The film focuses on the Oberlin College Mail Art Collection, asking how an archive can best preserve the memory of art that resists convention.
MORE ›Ever-able, 74-year-old Maj Doris Rimpi is a renowned Sámi artist who lives alone in Sweden and tends to her home and herd of reindeer, but after another long winter she wonders, is it time to consider a new way of life? North American Premiere
MORE ›Captures the people, places and incidents during the making of Spike Lee’s then-controversial feature, Do the Right Thing. St. Clair Bourne filmed the neighborhood before the…
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