Film Category: NEW DOCS

Homegoings
Christine Turner

This film explores the mind of a man whose heart and passion for the dead inspires our own
appreciation for the human soul.

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Slomo
Josh Izenberg

A wealthy neurologist leaves the rat race behind and gracefully skates his way, on one foot, to
spiritual fulfillment.

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Irish Folk Furniture
Tony Donoghue

Spirited animation brings handmade furniture to life in this colorful and delightfully quirky slice of rural Ireland.

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Spinning Plates
Joseph Levy

From a small cocina to a mecca for country dining to a three-star restaurant in Chicago, this film celebrates our passion for eating out.

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A Will for the Woods
Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale, Brian Wilson

This film explores the green burial movement by focusing on one man’s quest for a final resting place that will do no harm to the earth.

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Wolf Mountain
Dan Duran, Brendan Nahmias, Sam Price-Waldman

At Wolf Mountain Sanctuary in the Mojave Desert, Tonya Littlewolf literally runs with the
wolves, those that were born in captivity and are unsuited for life as pets or in the wild.

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Wrong Time Wrong Place
John Appel

Survivors of the 2011 bombing and mass shooting in Norway recount the day’s tragic events in
this look at how chance circumstances can have profound consequences.

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Scott Calonico

Diplomacy, arm-twisting, and gastronomy as lifted from LBJ’s daily diaries and recorded phone
conversations and animated by archival photographs.

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Shorts: Past + Future
Nathan Reich, Joshua Seftel, Alison Klayman

Recollected pasts and imagined futures converge in this program, which features portraits of three dissimilar artists as they reflect on their careers and their prospects.…

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Shorts: One + Nation
Margaret Brown, Nicholas Pilarski and Destini Riley, Maxim Pozdorovkin, AJ Schnack

This powerful program offers an eye-opening look at urgent social issues in the United States, from voting rights and immigration to gun control and incarceration.…

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