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