Film Category: NEW DOCS

Drills
Sarah Friedland

How do we move with anxiety? Drills takes an innovative, performative approach to examining the ways we handle the present and prepare for the future.…

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E14
Peiman Zekavat

Undoubtedly, the first weeks of coronavirus lockdown looked exceedingly different from city to city, neighborhood to neighborhood. From several stories up in a new East…

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The Facility
Seth Freed Wessler

In this harrowing documentary—told mostly through video chat and news footage—reporter Seth Freed Wessler investigates conditions at the Irwin County Detention Center, a private Immigration…

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All-In
Volkan Üce

An all-inclusive resort on the Turkish Riviera brings tourists from around the world to its beaches each summer—anticipating the influx of tourists, the resort hires…

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Cane Malice
Juan A. Zapata

Far from the eyes of the countless tourists who seek relaxation in the Dominican Republic’s verdant tropical resorts, tens of thousands of undocumented Haitian immigrants…

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Faya Dayi
Jessica Beshir

Filmed in Harar, the rural Ethiopian town where director Jessica Beshir grew up, Faya Dayi takes as its subject the khat trade, borrowing its title…

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The First Woman
Miguel Eek

Doe-eyed and quick to smile, fortysomething Eva longs for a sense of normalcy—her own place, a job, a boyfriend. As she explains it to her…

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Fruits of Labor
Emily Cohen Ibañez

Ashley is an introspective teen with curiosity about the world and her relationship to her ancestors. She also works days in the strawberry fields and…

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Meanwhile on Earth
Carl Olsson

Composed primarily of workplace tableaux from the Swedish funeral trade, Carl Olsson’s Meanwhile on Earth takes viewers into seldom-seen corners and conversations with those who…

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The Wakeful Sleeper
Boris Van der Avoort

Dealing with chronic sleeplessness, filmmaker Boris Van der Avoort undertakes a personal quest to examine his mental and physical space, looking for clues to his…

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