Film Category: NEW DOCS

The Order of Myths
Margaret Brown

Mobile, Alabama, is home to the oldest Mardi Gras carnival in America. Director Margaret Brown takes us there with an insider’s perspective. She grew up…

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Paradise
Jerzy Sladkowski

Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage was never this much fun! In this closely observed Swedish film about an older married couple, the overbearing Hans…

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The Horseman
Tell Johansson, Peter Gerdehag

Cameraman Peter Gerdehag and editor Tell Johannsson tell the story of Stig-Anders, an old-fashioned farmer in a remote village in Sweden, in pictures as big…

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In A Dream
Jeremiah Zagar

Over the last thirty years, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered forty thousand square feet of Philadelphia with grand-scale mosaics. When Zagar’s son Jeremiah picks up…

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Lakshmi and Me
Nishtha Jain

What begins as an unsentimental representation of a domestic worker by her privileged feminist employer soon becomes a double portrait of enormous emotional and political…

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The Last Conquistador
John Valadez, Cristina Ibarra

Sculptor John Houser’s quixotic dream is to fashion the tallest bronze equestrian statue ever created. There’s only one problem. His subject is the Spanish conquistador…

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Life. Support. Music.
Eric Daniel Metzgar

This thoughtful and affecting film chronicles the recovery of Jason Crigler, a young musician and father-to-be, after a devastating brain hemorrhage leaves him in a…

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Lioness
Meg McLagan, Daria Sommers

Meet the members of Team Lioness, the military heroines of one of the most important untold stories of the Iraq war. As per official military…

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Lucio
Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga

This film makes me hear the Clash singing, “daddy was a bankrobber, but he was a good man.” Serious and playful, fast paced and brilliant,…

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Man on Wire
James Marsh

In 1974, young Frenchman Philippe Petite held New York City in thrall when he balanced for nearly an hour on a high wire suspended 1,350…

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