Film Category: NEW DOCS

Aftershock
Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee

Maternal health care in the United States is in crisis: American women are more likely to die during childbirth today than they were 25 years…

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Move Me
Kelsey Peterson, Daniel Klein

Taut muscles that ripple underneath skin, joints that move fluidly: The motions of the human body are so instinctual, until they aren’t. Dancer and director…

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Paper City
Adrian Francis

In March 1945, the U.S. firebombed Tokyo, destroying a quarter of the city and killing 100,000 people. Among the survivors were Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka,…

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Soldat Ahmet
Jannis Lenz

Who is Ahmet Simsek? As indicated by the film’s title, he is a soldier in the Austrian Federal Army who lives in Vienna with his…

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The Territory
Alex Pritz

The Uru-eu–wau-wau people have lived in the Amazonian rainforest for generations, but it wasn’t until 1981 that they had their first contact with the outside…

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We Met in Virtual Reality
Joe Hunting

This visually arresting feature immerses the audience in the world of VR to show the genuine connections that can be forged within virtual environments. As…

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I Didn’t See You There
Reid Davenport

Filmed in and around director Reid Davenport’s apartment in Oakland, California, this documentary is part essay, part travelogue, and part formal observational inquiry, all linked…

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Let the Little Light Shine
Kevin Shaw

National Teachers Academy is a high-performing public elementary school in a predominately Black neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. As gentrification creeps further into…

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Mija
Isabel Castro

Doris Muñoz is the only daughter of Mexican immigrant parents and the only one of their children born in the United States. For most of…

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Mama Bears
Daresha Kyi

“Once you know how important fighting for your kid is, you can’t do anything else but fight for them,” is the statement that begins Daresha…

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