Film Category: NEW DOCS

CatCam
Seth Keal

Ever wonder what your pet does all day? After adopting a stray cat Jürgen Perthold did, but he also had what most animal lovers don’t—a…

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Children of the Sea
Annabel Verbeke

In 1906, Belgium’s Albert I founded the Ibis School to educate orphaned boys from the country’s seafaring communities. More than a hundred years later, the…

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Cutting Loose
Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall

In and out of jail for the last seventeen years, Francis Duffy can’t seem to cope in the outside world. He can’t structure his life…

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The D Train
Jay Rosenblatt

A man enters the subway, paying with a token. To the accompaniment of a jaunty Shostakovich waltz, archival images tell a life story—at once singular…

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Fanuzzi’s Gold
Georgia Gruzen

Ed Fanuzzi is a Staten Island inventor and treasure hunter. He sees gold where others see trash, combing the beach with a metal detector and…

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Grandmothers
Afarin Eghbal

From 1976 to 1983 a brutal regime in Argentina “disappeared” thousands, including hundreds of pregnant women who gave birth in concentration camps before they were…

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Kiss the Paper
Fiona Otway

As Alan Runfeldt opens the door to the barn in his backyard, we are transported into his world as one of the few remaining artisans…

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The Waiting Room
Peter Nicks

Peter Nicks’s rigorous verité film spends twenty-four hours in an Oakland Emergency Room, his camera evenly maneuvering through the complex environment. A stoic nurse intercepts…

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Without a Fight
Jason Arthurs

Nairobi is home to Kenya’s largest slum. Comprised of thirteen villages that are divided along religious and ethnic lines, Kibera suffers from continual outbreaks of…

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Reportero
Bernardo Ruiz

At some point every war reporter questions how far he or she is willing to go for a story and whether death is worth the…

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