Films


Picture Day
Steven Bognar

One school, 601 kids, 12 frames per kid. This playful parade of images contrasts poignantly with audio of the kids interviewing each other about the connections between photographs and losing loved ones.

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Picture Day
Steven Bognar

One school. 601 kids. 12 frames per kid. What do you get? In Steven Bognar’s hands, you get a playful, funny parade of images that…

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Pieces
Steve Petersen, Jon O'Neill

On May 11, 1996, Value Jet flight 592 crashed into the Everglades of Florida, killing 110 people. Nothing could have prepared two homicide detectives and…

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Pig Country
Andreas Koefoed

A third-generation swine farmer in Denmark could lose his family’s pastoral way of life when property payments cannot be made.

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The Pill
Chana Gazit, David Steward

The story of how the birth control pill came into being, fueling the women’s movement and encouraging more open attitudes about sex. The film reveals…

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Pinuccio Lovero. A Midsummer Death’s Dream
Pippo Mezzapesa

Part Everyman, part Puck, part quintessential Italian son, Pinuccio Lovero is a simple, enigmatically charming man who takes to the camera as if it were…

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The Pipe
Risteard Ó Domhanill

Shell plans to build a gas pipeline over nine kilometers of farmland in the west coast of Ireland, inciting local people to legal action, protests, and violent confrontation.

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Pit No. 8
Marianna Kaat

Yura and his sisters escaped their alcoholic parents, but to pay the bills he must mine for coal in abandoned pits near his United Kingdomrainian hometown.

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Pitchman
Jeff Seymann

His only tools are the Iavalier microphone around his neck and the seamless snappy patter he casts like a spell over the few or none…

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A Place Called Pluto
Steve James

When a reporter is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he boldly faces his prognosis by putting his experiences into words.

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A Place of Our Own
Stanley Nelson

Since he was a child, Stanley Nelson’s family has vacationed in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard. This small town became a popular destination for upper-middle-class…

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A Place of Our Own
Stanley Nelson

The town of Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard, has long been a summer resort destination for generations of upper-middle-class black Americans, filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s family…

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Planet Kirsan
Magdalena Pięta

For President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov of Kalmykia the noble and ancient game of chess is the linchpin of his nation’s political ambitions.

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Plaster Caster
Jessica Villines

Art, rock and roll, sexuality, class, and age unite in this film’s touching account of the life and of its unaffected, resolute and winning heroine,…

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Plastic China
Jiu-liang Wang

At a recycling center in the Chinese countryside, two families survive between seas of plastic bottles and wrappers shipped from the U.S. and other countries; processing this waste has become their burden, and yet for their children, they dream of a better life.

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The Player
John Appel

Spurred by his own father’s gambling, filmmaker John Appel deftly traces the overlapping psychology and compulsions of three characters: a bookie, a poker player, and an incarcerated swindler.

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Playing the News
Jigar Mehta, Jeff Plunkett

The first video game company to consider itself a legitimate news organization, Kuma Reality Games takes pride in bringing incidents from the Iraq war directly…

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Please Vote For Me
Weijun Chen

Third graders elect a class monitor at the Evergreen Primary School in rural China, voting for the first time in their lives. Three candidates jump…

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