Film Category: NEW DOCS

The Mute’s House
Tamar Kay

An intimate look into the lives of energetic eight-year-old Yousef and his deaf mother, Sahar, the last Palestininan residents of a deserted apartment building Hebron.

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Topophilia
Peter Bo Rappmund

Nature and industry clash and converge in this time-lapse experiment that follows the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

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Trapped
Dawn Porter

When Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws restrict access to abortion in southern states, passionate clinic workers and lawyers wage a fight to preserve a woman’s right to choose.

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Pickle
Amy Nicholson

At once hilarious and heartfelt, Pickle chronicles a series of pets with bizarre afflictions through the recollections of a couple who loved them regardless.

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Salero
Mike Plunkett

The discovery of vast lithium reserves beneath Bolivia’s dazzling Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, threatens to challenge salt-gatherer Moises’s traditional way of life.

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Sonita
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

As her family attempts to sell her as a bride, an Afghani refugee living in Iran fights to keep her dream of becoming a rap star alive.

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Speaking is Difficult
AJ Schnack

This staggering indictment of gun violence in America contrasts serene present-day fottage of sitesof mass shootings with recordings of 911 calls.

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Starless Dreams
Mehrdad Oskouei

With rawness and candor, young women in an Iranian juvenile detention center reflect on the crimes they have committed and the harsh circumstances that have shaped them.

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Tarikat
Jasmijn Schrofer

This visual poem, a hypnotic invocation of Islamic Sufi spiritual traditions, invites the viewer into the trancelike rhythms and movements of a quest for enlightenment.

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BARGE
Ben Powell

A meditative microcosm of the American Dream, BARGEdocuments a hard-working crew’s month-long hitch abord a Mississippi River towboat bound for New Orleans.

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