Films


Protagonist
Jessica Yu

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…

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Protocols of Zion
Marc Levin

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…

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The Providers
Laura Green, Anna Moot-Levin

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

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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Chad Freidrichs

A compelling search for the full story behind the huge and doomed public housing project in St. Louis, that iconoclastic ―failure of modernism.

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Purple Dreams
Joanne Hock

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.

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Purvis of Overtown
Shaun Conrad, David Racugglia

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…

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The Pushouts
Katie Galloway

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

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Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin

The titular band’s controversial performance and subsequent imprisonment are documented in this revealing portrait of the women and their cause.

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Putin’s Kiss (Putins kys)
Lise Birk Pedersen

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…

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Putting the River in Reverse
Matthew Buzzell

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…

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The Queen
Manuel Abramovich

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.

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The Queen and I
Nahid Persson Sarvestani

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…

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Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Deborah Shaffer

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.

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The Queen of Versailles
Lauren Greenfield

A character-driven documentary about a billionaire family’s financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.

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The Queen of Versailles
Lauren Greenfield

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…

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QUEST
Jonathan Olshefski

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.

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Questioning Faith
Macky Alston

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…

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R. Enstone
James Varley

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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