Film Category: NEW DOCS
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,…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›“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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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,…
MORE ›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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