Film Category: NEW DOCS

Hanasaari A
Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen

In this experimental short, time-lapse photography transforms the demolition of a coal-fired power plant into a stunning work of art.

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María’s Way
Anne Milne

Along a famed pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, one woman’s calling is to sit by the narrow thoroughfare greeting and counting the travelers as they pass by.

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Notes on the Other
Sergio Oksman

Every summer a surprising number of bearded men flock to Key West to take part in the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, imitating a famous author who himself donned the persona of fearless adventurer.

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Photograph of Jesus
Laurie Hill

Stop-motion animation whisks viewers through card catalogs and filing cabinets to reveal the bizarre and impossible photo requests that cross an archivist’s desk.

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Ali Shan
Yung Chang

In this oddly suspenseful and ethereal short film, an early morning commute leads to a surprisingly transcendent destination.

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Albert’s Winter
Andreas Koefoed

A young Danish boy spends the winter balancing the whimsy of childhood play, the demands of his education, and the omnipresence of his mother’s cancer.

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Thunder Soul
Mark Landsman

Former members of Houston’s renowned Kashmere Stage Band, arguably the nation’s best high- school jazz and funk band in the 1970s, get together for a reunion concert in honor of beloved band director Conrad Johnson in this fast-paced, toe-tapping funk celebration.

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Today Is Better Than Two Tomorrows
Anna Rodgers

Inseparable eleven-year-old cousins and best friends, Leh and Bo, face a harsh reality: one will go to a monastery and one will go to school, sequestered from each other and their families. Filmmaker Anna Rodgers spent four years in Laos with the boys as they grew up and apart.

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War Don Don
Rebecca Richman Cohen

A riveting war crimes trial in Sierra Leone is closely watched by a healing nation.

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Waste Land
Lucy Walker, João Jardim, Karen Harley

Artist Vik Muniz is renowned for making portraits out of unusual objects—sugar, dirt, peanut butter, chocolate syrup. Here, filmmaker Lucy Walker follows Muniz as he…

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