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Combining rare archival footage and still photographs with never-before seen live footage of the Miss America Pageant today, this film explores why Miss America is…
MORE ›First generation Indian-American daughters grab for glory in this hybrid of a beauty pageant, the Miss India-Georgia competition. This freewheeling look at four contestants follows…
MORE ›Allen Ross was a filmmaker’s filmmaker—artistic, committed and reliable. And then he went missing. Friend and fellow filmmaker Christian Bauer decided after five years out…
MORE ›This deeply poetic and personal document uses hundreds of clay figurines to recreate events and validate memories of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
MORE ›Mississippi Masala opens in Uganda in 1972 with the expulsion of all Asian Africans by Idi Amin. One family tearfully leaves their home and lands…
MORE ›Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the rock band the National, invites his younger brother to work as a road and film the band on tour—with unexpected results.
MORE ›Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. With strikingly intimate access, Mistress Dispeller follows this unfolding family drama from all corners of a love triangle.
MORE ›The bravado and posturing of the Croats and Serbs in the former Yugoslavia is long dead and gone. And in the ruins families remember when…
MORE ›If a phone rings in the desert and there is no one there to answer it, does it still make a sound? Mojave Mirage follows…
MORE ›In this astutely shot thriller, octogenarian Sergio is a newly minted spy planted between the walkers and lunchtime gossip of a Chilean nursing home to report on the well-being of a fellow resident. And the cameras? There to film an ordinary story about the organization, or so it seems. This tale navigates the charming rapport between characters while weaving together profound truths about aging, loneliness, and compassion.
MORE ›Mokhtari returns to the cinema-verité style of filmmaking to portray the world of a teacher and her children in the village of Mahriz in South…
MORE ›After he is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Carl finds purpose in removing the copper wiring from televisions. His wife, Susan, lovingly creates sculptures with the delicate coils, holding on to the profound connection that remains in their lives.
MORE ›As the Cambodian government demolishes homes, and arrest counts and brutal police violence increase, elder resident “Mommy” and other neighborhood women prove to be peaceful, and vivacious, resisters.
MORE ›Alternately bemused, confused, and fussy, Mr. Vig gives his Danish castle to the Russian Orthodox Church for a monastery. When the church accepts and sends…
MORE ›Vintner vs. family vendetta, Mondavi vs. Terroir. Bathed in Mediterranean light, California sunshine and French attitude, this movie is big and fruity with a great…
MORE ›Scio Sasaki, an aspiring chef and sometimes-DJ, grapples with the responsibility of taking over his family’s ancestral Buddhist temple, a tradition dating back 23 generations.
MORE ›Nicky Vreeland trades in his rarified high-society existence for a Tibetan Buddhist monk’s maroon robes. Luckily, he brings his camera along.
MORE ›This fascinating documentary by North Carolina filmmakers Brett Ingram and Jim Haverkamp explores the world of Bruce Bickford, a legend in underground animation circles whose…
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