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Musicians are people, too. This intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra delves into the lives of gifted musicians outside the concert hall. Music…
MORE ›Traversing continents and cultures, the cellist and his international music group demonstrate the power of artistic collaboration through performances and personal stories.
MORE ›The first of several films Len Lye made for the British Ministry of Information during World War II. Set to wartime jazz tunes, including “Bugle…
MORE ›In this magnificently photographed and playful ode, a variety of characters profess their devotion
to the briny mollusk.
Morgan Dews’s grandmother, Allis, passed away in 2001. She had never spoken about her marriage to his grandfather, Charley, while she was alive. After her…
MORE ›An intimate look into the lives of energetic eight-year-old Yousef and his deaf mother, Sahar, the last Palestininan residents of a deserted apartment building Hebron.
MORE ›Louis I. Kahn, who died in 1974, was one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century, but he left behind an illegitimate son, Nathaniel,…
MORE ›In Norway, Sigrid Beate is a young mother who is just days away from the beginning of her long prison sentence for murder. In this…
MORE ›In 2005, the first elections after the fall of Sadaam Hussein hold incredible promise, but will they be overshadowed by the unaddressed ethnic and sectarian…
MORE ›Dharsika and Puhalchudar are friends who share secrets, laugh at each other’s jokes, and even braid each other’s hair. Each is also prepared to kill…
MORE ›Since 2001 when he left Algeria, the filmmaker’s cousin Fahed has lived in Grimsby, England, and steadily worked two jobs, gotten married, and picked up the distinct accent of the region. In this quietly executed story of a man straddling two worlds—his place of birth and his adopted country—Fahed’s understanding of origin and identity are tested in this affectionate look at how one defines home.
MORE ›In May 2000, a fireworks storage room exploded in the east Netherlands city of Enschede. The tragic accident killed twenty-three people and injured another thousand. Filmmaker Astrid Bussink, who was living there at the time, returns to the city, gauging the many ways the explosion continues to resonate within the community.
MORE ›A daughter crafts a portrait of her father through the spaces he occupied, a meditation shaped by the tools he left behind.
MORE ›In the process of writing his will, architect Glen Small requests that his estranged daughter, Lucia Small, write his biography. Despite the fact that Lucia’s…
MORE ›This exquisitely crafted portrait of 75-year-old Marita and her six-year-old granddaughter, Marina, is among this year’s most unique visual experiences. Lovely, bright, textured, the film…
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