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If you weren’t tuned in during the sixties and seventies—or even alive—you probably think Wavy Gravy is just a popular ice-cream flavor at Ben and…
MORE ›The discovery of vast lithium reserves beneath Bolivia’s dazzling Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, threatens to challenge salt-gatherer Moises’s traditional way of life.
MORE ›On the streets of Kolkota, India, Salim Baba runs a “cinema cart”—a one-hundred-year-old hand-cranked projector that has been modernized for sound, modified with found materials,…
MORE ›Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure was a secret. Sally’s life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, reveals their hidden romance and the sacrifices that accompanied their 27 years together.
MORE ›Avant-garde dancer and choreographer Sally Gross has been dancing for more than fifty years. Documentary legend Albert Maysles and co-director Kristen Nutile chronicle the New…
MORE ›This beautifully shot film tells the story of Thessaloniki—or what used to be Thessaloniki. The second-largest city in Greece was, for four hundred years, a…
MORE ›Every year photographer Murray Fredericks ventures to the middle of Lake Eyre, a desolate salt flat in South Australia. He pitches camp at its very…
MORE ›Naked and brimming with possibilities, a band of neo-hippies rafted down the Colorado River a quarter-century ago for a summer of love and rock-climbing. Director…
MORE ›On May 17, 2004, same sex marriage became legal in the state of Massachusetts. This film follows seven couples as they make wedding plans in…
MORE ›Through an intricate synthesis of images, and without a single word of dialogue, this intoxicating film takes us on a cross-continental journey through our modern…
MORE ›Samuel Mendoza continues the family tradition of operating the ski lift in a Bolivian Andes resort, while a melting glacier below threatens everyone’s way of life.
MORE ›On this remote island, one of the most densely populated on the planet, a community strggles to maintain its way of life as resources and opportunities dwindle.
MORE ›On this remote island, the most densely populated on the planet, a community struggles to maintain their way of life as resources and opportunities dwindle. Festival Year: 2014
MORE ›Real Bearded Santas are men so committed to portraying Santa Claus that they maintain their lustrous whiskers year-round. They are Santa Claus when they go…
MORE ›Juana Luz Tobar Ortega, a quiet grandmother from Guatemala, took refuge in a Greensboro, N.C., church in the summer of 2017. Nearly two years later, she’s still there.
MORE ›How does one justify holding a film festival in the middle of a major war? Here, bombs fall, shots rattle off, yet people run in…
MORE ›The word “pastoral” hardly comes to mind when one thinks of Iraq, but Sari’s Mother begins with a series of beautifully composed images, shot with…
MORE ›In this short, sensitive personal essay, a Brazilian-born filmmaker grapples with the physical, and emotional, distance between her life in Germany and her family back at home. Saudade, a Portuguese word that cannot be translated into any other language, is the thread that ties familial generations together and explores what it means to long for home.
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