Film Category: NEW DOCS

Lumo
Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III

Lumo is a young woman in the Masisi District of Democratic Republic of Congo. Like many women in the area, she suffers from fistula, a…

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Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
Jason Kohn

Astonishing visual richness and a disquieting sense of menace drive the story of the current kidnapping epidemic in Brazil. The film explores the country’s systemic…

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Match Made
Mirabelle Ang

A matchmaking agency tries to bridge the economic disparities of 21st century life in South East Asia. Young women from rural Vietnam arrive in Ho…

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Meeting Resistance
Molly Bingham, Steve Connors

Rare are the films that take us deep inside the Iraqi insurgency while exposing us to a popular, yet sophisticated, cross section of Iraqi society.…

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The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief
Jake Clennell

Issei looks like one cool Japanese guy. He’s got it all, expensive clothes, the perfectly messed up hair, a boyish grin frozen in time, a…

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The Hands of Che Guevara
Peter De Kock

His image has sold t-shirts, tacos and bite-sized agitprop. With Che Guevara having already achieved iconographical status as a martyred revolutionary and a market-friendly signifier…

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Helmut By June
June Newton

While Helmut Newton shoots his iconic high fashion photographs, his wife June shoots him with her video camera. She tells us her story—and his—with charm,…

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Helvetica
Gary Hustwit

The history and impact of the ubiquitous typeface, from its origins in Swiss International style to its proliferation around the world in corporate and institutional…

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A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich
Oksana Dvornichenko, Helga Landauer

The Soviet Union’s most famous composer took a sea voyage to America near the end of his life. This remarkable documentary is structured around his…

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The Killer Within
Macky Alston

When is the past truly past? Bob Bechtel, a prominent psychology professor at Arizona University, decides to reveal to his extended family, colleagues, and students…

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