Film Category: NEW DOCS
Over 40 years ago, filmmaker Min Sook Lee’s mother died by suicide. Using her camera, Lee explores long-held silences, unstable memories and unforgettable truths, attempting to understand what happened.
MORE ›After the Los Angeles wildfires leave thousands of homes contaminated with toxic ash, residents face an impossible choice: should they risk their health to return home?
MORE ›Based on Ed Emanuel’s 2003 Vietnam War memoir, director J.M. Harper’s film reflects on that conflict’s first Black special ops team—a long-range reconnaissance patrol in…
MORE ›Through the intertwined destinies of a wounded stork and an elderly Kurdish woman, whose daughter contemplates migrating to the UK, Singing Wings weaves a poetic parallel between animal and human migration.
MORE ›In a coastal town in Calabria, southern Italy, a woman who prefers to remain anonymous breaks the silence surrounding the issue of abortion in the region.
MORE ›When the small town of Marion, Kansas, is thrust into the international spotlight after a police raid on the Marion County Record and the death of its 98-year-old co-owner, a fierce debate ignites about the abuse of power, journalistic ethics, local journalism, and the United States Constitution.
MORE ›One of two Boeing airplane crashes six years ago, caused by a software failure, killed 157 people, including my brother Max. I travel with my father to the crash site in search of something tangible in our grief. Here, we met people for whom mourning is a profound part of their culture – a humanity contrasting with the manufacturer’s calculated stance.
MORE ›In a small mining town in the north part of Sweden we witness a melancholic, humorous and sometimes absurd last epoch of a place. Personal stories of farewell, change, and the impermanence of life unfold above one of the world’s largest underground iron ore mines.
MORE ›Two workmen and an apprentice drive through Belfast at night, replacing old sodium streetlights with LED. Beneath their glow, the city grapples with change, as progress marches on
MORE ›Mother Lidia is an immersive and unsettling portrait of Lidia Fuentes, a Chilean healer with a divine gift for breaking curses. In her home, we see her receiving patients seeking to be cured of ailments with dark origins. Between exorcisms and moments of daily life, a universe is revealed where a complex balance exists between the magical and the earthly.
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