Films
A reformed gay Christian, a violent criminal, a left-wing German terrorist, and a bullied child who learns kung fu for self defense tell us their…
MORE ›Filmmaker Marc Levin uses an infamous hoax, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—a book fabricated in Russia at the end of the 19th century—as…
MORE ›The El Centro Family Health system in northern New Mexico covers 22,000 square miles and suffers from a chronic shortage of health care providers. This film follows three dedicated practitioners in their daily work and private lives. World Premiere
MORE ›A compelling search for the full story behind the huge and doomed public housing project in St. Louis, that iconoclastic ―failure of modernism.
MORE ›This film follows six students at the Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, N.C., who thrive as performers in the first-ever high school musical production of The Color Purple while grappling with difficult and stressful issues in their own lives.
MORE ›This straightforward and beautifully shot portrait of Purvis Young, artist and neighborhood stalwart, is also a revealing look at a community in transition. The heyday…
MORE ›This inspiring film follows the transformative work of Dr. Victor Rios, a former gang member and high school dropout, as he works to support students, through tools for self-reflection and expression, in an educational system that is failing to reach them. World Premiere
MORE ›The titular band’s controversial performance and subsequent imprisonment are documented in this revealing portrait of the women and their cause.
MORE ›Masha Drokova is a model member of Nashi, Russia’s nationalistic youth movement. Not yet twenty years old, she has climbed the ranks to become an…
MORE ›Music legend Elvis Costello journeys to New Orleans to celebrate the songbook and spirit of the hurricane-battered city’s Renaissance man, Allen Toussaint. With the Katrina-exiled…
MORE ›As the grown-ups fuss to prepare her to be queen of the carnival, 11-year-old pageant competitor Memi learns that beauty is pain.
MORE ›Two Iranian women forced into exile under radically different circumstances converge in this simple and moving documentary by award-winning director Nahid Persson Sarvestani. Using a…
MORE ›This vibrant study of painter and sculptor Audrey Flack tracks a career that trailblazed through an artworld designed for men. The octogenarian artist reflects on her expansive body of work and the struggles she faced balancing her talent and ambition with her role as a wife and mother.
MORE ›A character-driven documentary about a billionaire family’s financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.
MORE ›The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family’s financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With epic proportions of…
MORE ›This thoughtful and incisive observation of the Rainey family over the course of ten years seamlessly captures pivotal life experiences as well as issues of poverty, politics, and gun violence in a North Philadelphia neighborhood.
MORE ›Macky Alston wants to be a minister. But in the age of AIDS and terrorism how does one preach about God’s mercy when many are…
MORE ›The discovery of a box of mysterious and sometimes darkly paranoid footage shot by a man named Richard Enstone raises unanswerable questions.
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