Films
With a population of 350, Panola is a rural, predominantly Black town in Alabama, where the Covid-19 pandemic has taken its toll. The closet vaccination…
MORE ›This filmmaker’s endearing family portrait focuses on his father who, at nearly 80 years old, is struggling with neuropathy, a debilitating disease of the central…
MORE ›In March 1945, the U.S. firebombed Tokyo, destroying a quarter of the city and killing 100,000 people. Among the survivors were Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka,…
MORE ›Based on George Plimpton’s book, Paper Lion stars Alan Alda as the famous reporter who gamely put himself in unimaginable circumstances in order to offer…
MORE ›Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage was never this much fun! In this closely observed Swedish film about an older married couple, the overbearing Hans…
MORE ›Shot entirely on Super-8mm, this extraordinary experimental film is a passionate collage of life, love, work, and politics in Colombia. Evoking the revolutionary aesthetics of…
MORE ›When three young boys are brutally murdered, three teenagers are accused of committing the crime as part of a satanic ritual, and are convicted by their community before they even reach the courtroom. Paradise Lost is the first film of the groundbreaking trilogy that documented the case of the West Memphis Three.
MORE ›A lyrical exploration of the fragile hopes and harsh realities of African immigrant journeys to Spain. Festival Year: 2008
MORE ›“Only death can stop me from going to Europe,” says a young man from Chad midway through his story. The despair and displaced idealism in…
MORE ›Highly original and impossible to classify, the film dares to plunge into the world of autism, in a verité-style study of the experience of a…
MORE ›Surveillance cameras give us a Night at the Museum look inside Detroit’s abandoned zoo on Belle Isle, a no man’s land of flora and fauna reverting to wilderness.
MORE ›When a multinational corporation attempts to covertly develop plans to build a resort on the fishermen’s coast in Todos Santos, Mexico, the locals unite for a momentous and riveting fight for their resources and their heritage—their patrimonio. North American Premiere
MORE ›St. Clair Bourne combines American and European archival footage as well as interviews with Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger, Ossie Davis, and Uta Hagen, among others,…
MORE ›After a former sheriff sees his son-in-law killed in controversial police standoff, he dives into an obsessive investigation of the militarization of American law enforcement.
MORE ›Using ethnic strife within the Democratic Republic of Congo as its representative case-study, this exquisitely shot film provides amazing backstage access to the United Nations,…
MORE ›Padraig O’Malley has dedicated his life to negotiating agreements between leaders of war-torn regions across the world.
MORE ›The Alps are the backdrop for this wry and captivating take on climate change and how idiosyncratic responses to its effects impact natives and tourists…
MORE ›Two former college athletes, one male and one female, travel the world looking for pickup soccer games, meeting an extraordinary range of people who play for the love of the game.
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