Film Category: NEW DOCS

Dear Jesse
Tim Kirkman

What could Jesse Helms possibly have in common with Tim Kirkman: one, the conservative outspoken enemy of homosexuals and abortion rights advocates, the other a…

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Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s
Richard Pulicini, Shari Springer Berman

This film covers the last few weeks in the life and the closing of Chasen’s in Hollywood and the reactions of the restaurant’s staff and…

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SHORTS: What Remains

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Balloonfest; The Kodachrome Elegies; Dysphoria: Inside the Mind of a Holocaust Survivor; and The Earth Did Not Speak.

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SHORTS: Ties Between Us

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: My Father’s Film; Luis & I; Shivani; and Waiting for Hassana.

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SHORTS: Inspired Visions

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Slowerblack; All Skate, Everybody Skate; and Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405.

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SHORTS: Taking Place

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: Timberline; Winter’s Watch; The Rain Will Follow; and The Great Theater.

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SHORTS: To Be Exact

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: The Original Richard McMahan; The Botanist; and The Submarine.

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SHORTS: In Pieces

This program features the following NEW DOCS short films: 116 Cameras; They Took Them Alive; and Asiyeh.

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Socotra, the Island of Djinns
Jordi Esteva

In this extraordinary black-and-white account, a group of camel herders travel inland on the island of Socotra to avoid the rainy season while sharing nighttime tales of supernatural djinns.

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Zuzana: Music Is Life
Peter Getzels, Harriet Gordon Getzels

The life story of eminent Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickowva transcends the personal in a deeply affecting look at the redemptive power of art throughout the Czech Republic’s turbulent 20th century.

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