Film Category: NEW DOCS

In Harm’s Way
Jan Krawitz

In Harm’s Way is an intensely personal documentary that explores the concept of safety within the context of a society that sometimes gives rise to…

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Fighting Grandpa
Greg Pak

Fighting Grandpa is a sensitive and probing portrayal of the filmmaker’s Korean immigrant grandparents and their marriage. The brilliant use of home movies, photographs, and…

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Anything Can Happen
Marcel Lozinski

One chilly spring morning, Tomek, a six-year-old boy on his scooter, romps through the neighborhood park and encounters some of its white-haired regulars. Tomek hoists…

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The Spitball Story
Jean Bach

How could one little spitball play such an important role in shaping American music? When Gillespie, that irrepressibly mischievous sprite, is involved, anything could happen.…

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Calling the Ghosts
Mandy Jacobsen, Karmen Jelincic

“It left deep traces on her body and her soul.” This is the mother of Jadranka Cigeli, speaking of her daughter, one of the 36…

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Defending Our Daughters
Barbara Kopple

A Pakistani father tries to sell his daughter in marriage to a man twice her age. Women are circumcised in Somalia. An elderly Bosnian woman…

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Travis
Richard Kotuk

Seven-year-old Travis has AIDS. Filmmaker Richard Kotuk invites us to witness Travis’s struggle. With his intense yearning for life and understanding of death, Travis describes…

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Can Memory Be Dissolved in Evian Water?
Charles Najman

Can one’s nerves be relaxed by two weeks of water treatment? In reparation for World War II, the Germans established a program to finance Holocaust…

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The Political Education of Maggie Lauterer
Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Paul Stekler

This revealing film offers a dispiriting and inspiring account of how Maggie Lauterer runs for a congressional seat in North Carolina. The panoply of contemporary…

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

The fine line between genius and madman/ego-maniac is explored in this film which documents the personal and professional lives of Frank Lloyd Wright. Interviews with…

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