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An austere and contemplative observation of Lake Victoria fishermen rendered in arresting
chiaroscuro.
Filmmaker Steve James returns to his hometown of Hampton, Virginia, to explore the lasting polarization surrounding the 1993 trial of Allen Iverson, then a high school basketball star three years away from the NBA.
MORE ›Dr. Madan Kataria is a physician and founder of Laughing Club International, creating a therapy to help reduce common stressors of everyday life in India.…
MORE ›Compiled from hundreds of home movies to create a dream ride across 20th-century America, this mixtape’s soundtrack and narration is provided by the audience.
MORE ›“I wouldn’t own a mean chicken,” says Glen Comeaux, who has been raising fighting birds for 43 years in southwest Louisiana. Cockfighting is legal there,…
MORE ›In the summer of 2019, young father Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his not quite two-year-old daughter, Angie Valeria, drowned in a river on the…
MORE ›Are you convinced that there were no voting irregularities in 2004? Then witness Fannie Lewis in action on November 2, 2004, as she struggles to…
MORE ›The filmmaker’s search for jokes told by Palestinians yields both cultural insights and pointed commentary behind the humor.
MORE ›In the aftermath of the Meggido Junction suicide bombing in Israel, a film crew researches the identity of a seventeenth, unidentified victim. This sublime view…
MORE ›In Islam, the Ashura Festival commemorates annually the triumph of Iman Hussein, son of the prophet Mohammed, over a secular tyrant. As such, it is…
MORE ›Noble Sacrifice explores the nexus between mourning and militancy as expressed by the annual Muslim Shite observance of the Ashura ritual in Lebanon. Entirely narrated…
MORE ›Jerry Bell, a modern day Huck Finn with an infectious spirit, is aching to move beyond small town existence. He sets out to see America in…
MORE ›Johannes was first placed in an orphanage when he was 14 days old, because both of his parents required institutionalized mental care. Told in telling…
MORE ›The poetics of percussive objects serve as the visual anchor to this uniquely nomadic documentary sojourn. Rich in visual texture and commanding in its masterful…
MORE ›The legendary king of 1970s sitcoms reflects on his life, his work, and the profound shift in national consciousness fomented by his groundbreaking shows.
MORE ›This film provides a privileged and captivating view of the process of social organization and indoctrination of North Korean citizens. Daily rituals of family, school,…
MORE ›Experimental photographer/filmmaker Frampton records burning on camera, on a hotplate, 13 of his photos from an unhappy period in his career, 1959-1966. Each photo is…
MORE ›A meditation on time, memory, and the poetics of science, featuring astronomers, archeologists, and families of the disappeared drawn to Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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