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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…
MORE ›What would make a seven-year-old knowingly risk his life? Why would anyone yearn to become a bullfighter? And why, in particular, would the filmmaker’s father…
MORE ›Ever wondered why anyone would want to become a bullfighter? What would make a seven-year-old knowingly tackle his mortality at such a young age? Victoria…
MORE ›“Once you know how important fighting for your kid is, you can’t do anything else but fight for them,” is the statement that begins Daresha…
MORE ›A stop-motion animation about the filmmaker’s mother, whose tremendous thirst for freedom compelled her to go into the big wide world.
MORE ›Rarely does a documentary film affect viewers so viscerally as Man and Dog does. This straight-forward treatment of the daily work of a North Carolina…
MORE ›Rodeo like never imagined before: skillful filmmaking and a pulsing disco beat bring out the fetishistic ritual of rodeo preparation. The camera sees riding the…
MORE ›Robert Flaherty spent nearly two years recording life on the Aran Islands, three remote landmasses off the western coast of Ireland. Here, islanders brace for…
MORE ›Man of Aran exemplifies Flaherty’s career-long efforts to develop a highly personal approach to the documentary, establishing dramatic structure based on a selected “family.” Working…
MORE ›In 1974, young Frenchman Philippe Petite held New York City in thrall when he balanced for nearly an hour on a high wire suspended 1,350…
MORE ›A much-lauded independent fiction film about a former Pakistani rock star, now selling coffee and bagels on the streets of Manhattan and struggling to reclaim his life.
MORE ›Hard, Fast, Intense, Go. A father passionately drives his son to achieve success in wrestling. But the match actually stands in for the competition of…
MORE ›Hard, fast, intense, go. A father relentlessly pushes his son to become a champion wrestler. But his grueling training sessions mirror preparations for a graver…
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