Films


Open Hearted
Marc Ostrick

“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…

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Open Outcry
Jon Else

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…

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Operation Filmmaker
Nina Davenport

Good intentions go terribly awry when the filmmakers of a Hollywood movie bring an aspiring filmmaker from Iraq to
intern on set.

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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Richard E. Robbins

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…

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The Opposite Sex: Rene’s Story
Josh Aronson

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…

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The Order of Myths
Margaret Brown

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…

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The Original Richard McMahan
Olympia Stone

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.

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Ôte-toi de mon soleil
Messaline Raverdy

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.

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The Other One
Marie-Magdalena Kochová

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.

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The Other Side of the Mountain
Yumeng He

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.

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Our Brand Is Crisis
Rachel Boynton

American political strategists from the firm Greenberg Carville Shrum advise on marketign tactics for Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada’s campaign for president of Bolivia.

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Our Brand is Crisis
Rachel Boynton

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…

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Our Daily Bread
Nikolaus Geyrhalter

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…

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Our Man in Tehran
Drew Taylor, Larry Weinstein

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.

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Our New President
Maxim Pozdorovkin

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.

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Our Nixon
Penny Lane

Super 8 footage by Oval Office intimates Haldeman, Ehlrichman, and Chapin deliver an
astonishingly fresh view of the Nixon White House.

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Our Song to War
Juanita Onzaga

In honor of the Bojayá massacre, Colombian villagers employ a poetic death ritual that evokes a transformative connection between souls both living and dead.

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Out of Focus
Tomer Heymann

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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