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With its exquisite visual composition and delicate musical score, Phie Ambo’s Mechanical Love gently places its finger on the pulse of 21st-century emotional life. It…
MORE ›This daring narrative, set against the backdrop of the riots surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention, unpacks the moral obligations of bearing witness through the story of a news cameraman and his relationship with a single mother.
MORE ›In Indiana, a high school basketball team on a 44-game losing streak isn’t reaching for the
championship—they just want to win a single game.
Forty percent of the world population lacks access to a toilet. Businessman Jack Sim aims to break the taboos around talking about basic sanitation.
MORE ›In this reflection on the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, archival footage and interviews with his contemporaries enhance an intimate conversation between the politician who transformed the Soviet Union, thus the world, and director Werner Herzog.
MORE ›Rare are the films that take us deep inside the Iraqi insurgency while exposing us to a popular, yet sophisticated, cross section of Iraqi society.…
MORE ›Austrian director Michael Glawögger shot this provocative, disturbing, exhilarating film in Bombay, Moscow, Mexico City and New York. His subject is the people who live…
MORE ›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…
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