Film Category: NEW DOCS

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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Calavera Highway
Renee Tajima-Peña

This pitch-perfect road-trip film documents the odyssey of Armando and Carlos Peña as they gather together their five brothers to carry their mother’s ashes to…

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Daughters of Wisdom
Bari Pearlman

This contemplative and starkly beautiful film invites us into a Tibetan monastery, where the residents are not monks but nuns. Secluded in the Eastern Tibetan…

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Don’t Get Me Wrong
Adina Pintilie

A powerful document of the insular world of compulsive and repetitive behavior, Don’t Get Me Wrong takes the viewer to a Romanian psychiatric hospital where…

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Flying On One Engine
Joshua Weinstein

Plastic surgeon and cancer survivor Dr. S. Dicksheet spends six months of every year performing cleft lip surgeries for free in his native India, where…

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Forbidden Lie$
Anna Broinowski

Why are movies about outrageous con artists so fun to watch? Forbidden Lie$ combines caper with exposé and teems with so many self-serving characters that…

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Full Battle Rattle
Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss

Deep within the Mojave Desert, the United States army has erected a cluster of fake Iraqi villages where American soldiers spend three weeks training before…

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GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts
Scott Hicks

GLASS offers a rare glimpse of a great composer at work. What is the process involved in creating a symphony? What forces led to the…

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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Alex Gibney

While covering the campaign trail in 1972, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson once noted that “there is no such thing as off the record.” Echoing this…

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Good Ol’ Charles Schulz
David Van Taylor

When the first Peanuts comic strip appeared in 1950—simple line drawings of a group of children doing what children do: playing football, flying kites, and…

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