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This exquisitely photographed portrait documents a remote Arctic city centered around a metal refinery, where residents endure extreme, subzero temperatures to survive on the resource that lies beneath the tundra. North American Premiere
MORE ›In the 20th century, Hollywood offered black Americans very little positive representation. They were portrayed as violent or ignorant, and almost always submissive. Melvin van…
MORE ›The City Symphony is a venerable documentary film genre now entering its ninth decade. This updated model (the first postmodern example, perhaps?) celebrates that most…
MORE ›Veteran filmmaker Allan King breaks new ground in this compassionate portrayal of elderly people in decline. He spent months filming residents of a nursing home…
MORE ›“The Memory of Justice, like a sickly child, has always been a favorite offspring of mine. It also seems to me particularly relevant to what…
MORE ›A microenterpreneur has a dream: to reduce gynecological diseases among rural Indian women
by teaching them to make, and sell, sanitary pads.
“A photograph does not show the flies nor the thick white smell of death. Neither does it show how you must jump over bodies as…
MORE ›An elite climbing team tries to ascend the treacherous Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru. Remarkably photographed by the climbers themselves, their journey tests the boundaries of endurance, trust, and friendship.
MORE ›This homage to the fearless investigative reporting of the Buenos Aires Herald during the disappearances and murders of Argentinians between 1976 and 1983, utilizes impeccable archival footage and testimonies from surviving members of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo as well as lead newspaper editor Robert Cox. North American Premiere
MORE ›The camera in this short film takes the viewer on a ride through an abandoned mental hospital, racing through rooms, around corners, down and out…
MORE ›Magicians, musicians, henna artists, doctors, and others sing the praises of their hands. A wonderful collage of insight and image portray this special limb’s beauty…
MORE ›At work on their album St. Anger, the members of the legendary band find themselves embroiled in bitter disputes, so they bring in their therapist to help.
MORE ›Neil Sedaka had it right: “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”—even harder if that refers to heavy metal mega-band Metallica. With a career spanning more…
MORE ›One idea, one shot, one surprise. So simple, yet so rich. A gem.
MORE ›Midnight Family follows one family’s high-speed nights as they earn a living driving their privately owned ambulance in Mexico City, combating rival for-profit EMTs in a city where the government provides 45 public ambulances for a population of 9 million.
MORE ›In May of 1963, the national media circulated brutal images of the violent civil rights struggles taking place in Birmingham, Alabama. To this day, images…
MORE ›Mighty Times revisits a familiar historical event—the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and 1956—with a focus on the leadership role of Rosa Parks and the…
MORE ›Doris Muñoz is the only daughter of Mexican immigrant parents and the only one of their children born in the United States. For most of…
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