Film Category: NEW DOCS

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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Big Mama
Tracy Seretean

According to national statistics, there are two million children who rely on their grandparents to raise them. In Big Mama, a touching and completely poignant…

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Undesirables
Marianna Yarovskaya

Although quite young, Russia’s capitalistic system already has an all-too-familiar hallmark: the effort of extreme poverty on those not fortunate enough to share the wealth.…

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The Bridge Man
Noriko Takabishi

The sound of “Claire de Lune” being played gently on the piano provides the atmosphere and wordless sentiment for The Bridge Man, a short film…

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Searching
Vivian Bowman Edwards

On May 3, 1968, a helicopter co-piloted by Warrant Officer Arthur F. Chaney went down in Vietnam. The body of Art Chaney was never recovered.…

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Oilers, Roustabouts and Roughnecks
Christopher Lowden

Striking imagery and mesmerizing composition draw the world of the men and women who work at the Nabors Oil Drilling Platform in Odessa, West Texas…

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Pieces
Steve Petersen, Jon O'Neill

On May 11, 1996, Value Jet flight 592 crashed into the Everglades of Florida, killing 110 people. Nothing could have prepared two homicide detectives and…

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The Sunshine
Phil Bertensen

The only remaining flophouse on the Bowery is shown here in all its glory. Straight-on documentary style yields a non-sentimental portrait of the drinkers, horse-players,…

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