Film Category: NEW DOCS

The Mirror
David Christensen

This beautifully shot film blends the absurdism of Fellini and the generosity of DeSantis as it closely observes a remote village in the Italian Alps whose mayor lights upon an ingenious solution to a seemingly insurmountable dilemma: for three months of the year, the village is plunged into the shadow of a nearby mountain.

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My Enschede
Astrid Bussink

In May 2000, a fireworks storage room exploded in the east Netherlands city of Enschede. The tragic accident killed twenty-three people and injured another thousand. Filmmaker Astrid Bussink, who was living there at the time, returns to the city, gauging the many ways the explosion continues to resonate within the community.

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My Perestroika
Robin Hessman

Following five classmates who came of age during the collapse of the Soviet Union, this film offers a personal and nuanced look at Russia, from the Iron Curtain to today.

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The Oath
Laura Poitras

The stories of brothers-in-law Abu Jandal and Hamdan—Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard and driver respectively—converge and diverge in ways that shed light on a part of the world too few understand.

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Photo & Copyright by G.P. Fieret
Frank van den Engel

Friends and former models fondly recall Gerard Petrus Fieret, the eccentric Dutch photographer whose life’s work is now hotly desired by the art market.

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The Player
John Appel

Spurred by his own father’s gambling, filmmaker John Appel deftly traces the overlapping psychology and compulsions of three characters: a bookie, a poker player, and an incarcerated swindler.

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I Am Secretly An Important Man
Peter Sillen

Through the assembly of brilliant 16mm streetscapes, performance footage, and illuminating interviews with those closest to the subject, Peter Sillen offers a portrait of Steven J. Bernstein (aka Jesse Bernstein) as strikingly lyrical as the writings and spoken-word theatrics of the late artist himself.

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In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Deann Borshay Liem

Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem arrived in the U.S. at the age of eight under another girl’s name, and so began a tale of deception and amnesia that led her back to South Korea forty years later in search of the―real Cha Jung Hee.

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The Invention of Dr. Nakamats
Kaspar Astrup Schröder

A character sketch of Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor extraordinaire, this film takes us on a rollicking exploration of the human capacity for creativity and invention.

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La isla — Archives of a Tragedy
Uli Stelzner

A sudden explosion in a police training barrack uncovers a secret archive housing thousands of records amassed by the Guatemalan police and army from the 1930s through the end of the civil war in 1996.

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