Films
“Making this film almost killed me,” said producer, director and editor Marc Ostrick, who chronicles the most difficult experience of his life: preparing for, undergoing…
MORE ›Innovative technique meets unlikely subject matter—the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and its denizens. It’s a pressure-cooker workplace, but more than that, it’s a self-contained culture, with…
MORE ›In 2004 the National Endowment of the Arts developed Operation Homecoming, an initiative to help U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan write their firsthand accounts…
MORE ›Gender issues are complicated for friends and family of Rene, who was born a girl but has always felt like boy. This challenging film asks…
MORE ›Mobile, Alabama, is home to the oldest Mardi Gras carnival in America. Director Margaret Brown takes us there with an insider’s perspective. She grew up…
MORE ›A visionary artist painstakingly recreates the masterpieces of others, producing thousands of intricate miniature replicas of works made across centuries, from Van Gogh’s The Starry Night to King Tutankhamun’s tomb.
MORE ›Joseph cannot live at his own place anymore. For many years, he has travelled around the city with his trolley to gather tons of miscellaneous papers and objects of all kinds, thus filling his flat with labyrinthine chaos. He is said to have “the Diogenes syndrome.” He is gifted with vertiginous erudition and witty humor. As the filmmaker helps him with his home, a friendship forms.
MORE ›The life of 18-year-old Johana revolves around her sister’s mental disability. In her last year of high school, she must face inner conflicts and choose between love for her sister and love for herself.
MORE ›A filmmaker follows her father, an artist, in search of his childhood home in Southwestern China, fulfilling a wish of his aging mother. Changed by the tides of history, the streets are unrecognizable. Father and daughter meander through time contemplating what it means to see and make images.
MORE ›American political strategists from the firm Greenberg Carville Shrum advise on marketign tactics for Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada’s campaign for president of Bolivia.
MORE ›American campaign consultants, led by James Carville, run the campaign of an enigmatic and uncharismatic former president of Bolivia trying to regain office. As the…
MORE ›This stark, stunning, and literal film tells the story of how food gets from their origins to our homes, as well as about the people…
MORE ›This riveting film recounts Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor’s role in the high-risk rescue of six Americans from Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis.
MORE ›By turns provocative, disorienting, and astonishing, this feature weaves clips from Russian state-owned news coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to portray the perils of bias, conspiracy theories, and manufactured narratives.
MORE ›Super 8 footage by Oval Office intimates Haldeman, Ehlrichman, and Chapin deliver an
astonishingly fresh view of the Nixon White House.
In honor of the Bojayá massacre, Colombian villagers employ a poetic death ritual that evokes a transformative connection between souls both living and dead.
MORE ›Ohad Nahirin is the fascinating, enigmatic Israeli choreographer, and director of the Bathsheva Dance Company, who has developed a philosophy of movement he calls Gaga.…
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