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Revealing rehearsals and passionate performances bring to light the complex genius of choreographer Ohad Naharin, who helped revolutionize contemporary dance.
MORE ›As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
MORE ›Director Anne Paas’s simply made, home-movie-style story celebrates the beauty that never leaves people, regardless of age. Sweet and heartfelt, the film follows the series…
MORE ›Legendary Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado graced the airwaves for decades, donning elegant robes and broadcasting his charming, comforting presence to millions of viewers. A foundational figure in Latin American television, his popular shows were a cultural mainstay until he mysteriously disappeared in 2007. Now, with this intimate invitation into Mercado’s world, the dynamic, gender-fluid icon returns to the screen in a humorous and touching examination of a life fully lived.
MORE ›The American obsession with celebrity—be it movies or rock and roll—cuts wide and deep. So it should come as no surprise that a group of…
MORE ›After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art.
MORE ›Twelve-year old Collier Boyle’s testimony put his father in jail for the 1989 murder of his mother. Still imprisoned more than 25 years later, the father maintains his innocence, and Boyle returns to his Ohio hometown, in this sensitive examination of reconciling with the past.
MORE ›Imagine losing the use of one’s legs, torso, possibly hands—in an instant. Imagine losting them as an Olympic athlete. Murderball is the incredible journey of…
MORE ›There is more than meets the ear in these vivid and surprising accounts of performance and
perseverance in the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music scene.
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…
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