Film Category: NEW DOCS

AMANDLA! a revolution in four part harmony
Lee Hirsch

The history of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa as told through the freedom songs that were integral in bringing about the abolishment of…

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The American Egypt
Jesse Lerner

The first quarter of the 20th Century set the stage for a Mexico, specifically a Yucatan, that was free, enlightened, perhaps even one of these…

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Bombies
Jack Silberman

The United States’s secret air campaign in Laos during the Vietnam War was a crime unto itself, as well as the continuation of bombing afterwards…

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Con Man
Jesse Moss

Film Noir meets documentary in a gripping, ironic tour-de-force about a brilliant con artist impersonating a Princeton track star. The filmmaker retraces James Hogue’s fraudulent…

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Cunnamulla
Dennis O'Rourke

“Cunnamulla is the place to be. Outback living is the life for me. Scrubby desert beckons far and wide. Turn up the radio and give…

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Daddy & Papa
Johnny Symons

When filmmaker Johnny Symons was finally ready to settle down and start a family, he had one more hurdle to overcome. This film takes a…

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I Could Have Been Human
Barbara Medajska

Trapped within the interstices of the past and the future, there are present days of hoping, dreaming, and waiting. I Could Have Been Human chronicles…

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Mo[nu]ment[um]
Peter Collis

Images of foamy breakers, of the changing seasons across meadow and linksland, of a monument to a 1928 sea rescue turned tragic—with these, filmmaker Collis…

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Panic Attack
Brett Ingram

“Imagine your body telling your brain it doesn’t want it in there anymore,” says Reade Whinnem, “and then doing everything it can to try and…

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Egg Lady
Una Celma

Eggs, cups of flour, cups of sugar. This is what it takes to make the June 17 Birthday Cake at a Latvian bakery, which produces…

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