Film Category: NEW DOCS

The Ugliest Fountain in the World
Jensen Rufe

This film chronicles a student’s hopelessly ineffectual campaign to remove or renovate the worst eyesore on his (or any) campus. The film is droll, wry,…

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Silence
Orly Yadin, Sylvie Bringas

Haunting and powerful, this short animated piece lets Tana recount her own terrible story as a child of the Holocaust. Against the moving narration swirls…

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Strong at the Broken Places
Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich

This taut, gripping short film is a perfect marriage of filmmaking craft and powerful subject matter. Four individuals who survived unspeakable trauma in their youth…

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Leche
Naomi Uman

A dreamlike evocation of a dairy farm in Mexico, Leche pushes the outermost boundaries of the documentary form. Shot in 16mm black and white, with…

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Pitchman
Jeff Seymann

His only tools are the Iavalier microphone around his neck and the seamless snappy patter he casts like a spell over the few or none…

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Sons of the Soil
Elisabeth Leuvrey

A lyrical, beautiful piece of cinematography, Leuvrey’s film takes a glimpse into the life of 98-year-old Matti Ke Lal. A former wrestler, he takes in…

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Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows
Paul Jay

“It’s so hard to find a hero anywhere,” says Bret “The Hitman” Hart, a statement not so far off the mark in the world of…

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Speaking in Strings
Paola di Florio

Speaking in Strings is an intensely intimate profile of violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonneberg, whose unconventional delivery and bold character has caused enormous controversy in her fifteen…

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Bread Day
Sergei Dvortsevoy

Sergei Dvortsevoy depicts the relentless daily life of a desolate and isolated hamlet in Kurdistan. From a distant fork on the main route, each Tuesday,…

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Home Page
Doug Block

When filmmaker Doug Block decides to document the web, he discovers that the web can document back. Block focuses on Justin Hall, whose hilarious and…

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