Film Category: NEW DOCS

Surfing Soweto
Sara Blecher, Dimi Raphoto

There are many ways to surf a train. Three young men in South Africa risk their lives almost daily to achieve the ultimate adrenalin rush…

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Talk To Me
Mark Craig

The answering machine is the veritable waste bin of our social lives, the place where disregarded intimacies get tossed and lost. In this poignant ode…

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Two Hands
Nathaniel Kahn

Nathaniel Kahn, maker of My Architect, has made a short film with a fascinating subject: pianist Leon Fleisher, known for his decades-long career as a…

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The Way It Is
Elizabeth Salgado

A boiled egg. A slurped saucer. Each sequence of this exquisite movie is reduced to its essence as it tells a year in the life…

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A Son’s Sacrifice
Yoni Brook

Weary of the high-pressured Manhattan advertising world, a young Queens man returns to the family business, a halal meat market where meat is butchered according…

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South of Ten
Liza Johnson

A young girl rides her bicycle through a littered landscape; two teenage boys arrive at a beach house with only three walls; a woman searches…

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Specky
Anne-Claire Pilley

Ever wonder how nearsighted cave men survived without glasses? A quirky Brit decides to spend a month without her specs, endeavoring to improve her eyesight…

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A Loud Color
Brent Joseph

In New Orleans, five months after Katrina, 72-year-old Louis Harding surveys the damage and laments the loss to property and history. Harding is a self-made…

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Man Up
Arturo Cabanas

Hard, Fast, Intense, Go. A father passionately drives his son to achieve success in wrestling. But the match actually stands in for the competition of…

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Metacarpus
Nicole Triche

Magicians, musicians, henna artists, doctors, and others sing the praises of their hands. A wonderful collage of insight and image portray this special limb’s beauty…

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