Film Category: Invited

The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Chapman Way, Maclain Way

The story of the Portland Mavericks, who joined the minor leagues in 1973 as the lone single-A team without a major-league affiliation.

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Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Thomas Allen Harris

This invaluable document is a journey through the African American family photo album: its political, social, and artistic history; its stories of loss, self-invention, community, and beauty.

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Visitors
Godfrey Reggio

Stunning black-and-white images set to a score by Philip Glass propel this visceral rumination on humanity’s relationship with an increasingly digital world.

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WHITEY: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
Joe Berlinger

This true-crime doc examines the sensationalized trial of notorious a South Boston gangster and brings new allegations of law-enforcement corruption to light.

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Freedom Summer
Stanley Nelson

Remarkable archival footage and unforgettable eyewitness accounts take us back to the summer of 1964, when hundreds of civil rights activists entered Missisippi to help enfranchise the state’s African American citizens.

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Good Ol’ Freda
Ryan White

Liverpudian teenager Freda Kelly was the Beatles secretary and tells “one of the last true stories of the Beatles you’ll ever hear.”

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The Green Prince
Nadav Schirman

A real-life thriller about the complex relationship between a Palestinian spy and his Israeli Shin Bet handler.

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If You Build It
Patrick Creadon

Innovative teachers, striving students, and a radical curriculum in Bertie County, N.C., are chronicled over the course of one transformative year.

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Ivory Tower
Andrew Rossi

Is a college degree worth the price? This sweeping examination of higher education questions the value of college in an era of rising tuition costs and staggering student debt.

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Last Days in Vietnam
Rory Kennedy

Historical footage and personal reflections transport us to Saigon in April 1975 and reveal the moral quandaries surrounding the order to evacuate American citizens only.

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