Films


A People Uncounted
Aaron Yeger

Holocaust documentaries such as this one remind us that the Allied victory in World War II did not eradicate genocide. This deeply moving film unearths…

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A Perfect Candidate
R.J. Cutler, David Van Taylor

Campaign strategists, and an acutely aware journalist, take center stage in this document of the volatile 1994 Virginia senatorial race between Oliver North and Charles Robb.

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The Perfect Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir

A minor disagreement between neighbors in Florida takes a lethal turn, with police body camera footage and interviews probing the aftermath of the state’s controversial “stand your ground” laws.

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perfectly a strangeness
Alison McAlpine

In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.

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Personal Belongings
Steven Bognar

Steven Bognar’s first feature tells the story of his immigrant dad. When former freedom fighter Bela Bognar announces he’s returning to his homeland to commemorate the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, a series of unexpected events complicate the filmmaker’s efforts to document the trip and understand his father.

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Personal Truth
Charlie Lyne

Spurred from the fake “Pizzagate” scandal, this frenetic and provocative observational film about the power of fake news suggests that conspiracy theories may be more believable than one might like to admit.

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The Personals
Keiko Ibi

Keiko Ibi’s film probes the drama and comedy in the lives of a group of senior citizens in an improvisational theater group directed by an…

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Phantom Limb
Jay Rosenblatt

When he was just nine years old, Jay Rosenblatt was faced with the death of his younger brother. Unable to express his sadness or share…

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Phantom Limb
Jay Rosenblatt

This experimental fusion of found footage and home movies takes us through the grieving process the filmmaker, who lost his brother when he was just nine years old, was denied as a child. Festival Year: 2005

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Phantom of the Operator
Caroline Martel

Artfully edited excerpts of a hundred public relations films from the dawn of the century to today—made by the telephone company for operators or the…

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Photo & Copyright by G.P. Fieret
Frank van den Engel

Friends and former models fondly recall Gerard Petrus Fieret, the eccentric Dutch photographer whose life’s work is now hotly desired by the art market.

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Photograph of Jesus
Laurie Hill

Stop-motion animation whisks viewers through card catalogs and filing cabinets to reveal the bizarre and impossible photo requests that cross an archivist’s desk.

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Photographer
Dariusz Jablonski

This film is an extraordinary documentary of life in the Lodz Ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. The film uses a remarkable, recently discovered…

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The Photographer’s Wife
Karsten Krause, Philip Widmann

Amateur photographer Eugen Gerbert’s favorite model was Gerti, his wife of many years. Countless vacations and happy domesticity are documented for posterity. The decades of…

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The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover
Paul Yule

Did Conchita defraud her aging husband, renowned steam train photographer Winston O. Link? Or, did he exploit her for her business acumen? This convoluted tale…

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A Photographic Memory
Rachel Elizabeth Seed

A Photographic Memory is an intimate, genre-bending portrait of a daughter’s attempt to piece together a portrait of her mother, an avant-garde journalist and a woman she never knew. Uncovering the vast archive Sheila Turner-Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Lisette Model, and others, the film explores memory, legacy, and stories left untold.

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Photographic Memory
Ross McElwee

It may be inevitable that relationships between young adults and their parents will be turbulent. When your parent is filmmaker Ross McElwee and your life…

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Pickle
Amy Nicholson

At once hilarious and heartfelt, Pickle chronicles a series of pets with bizarre afflictions through the recollections of a couple who loved them regardless.

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