Film Category: NEW DOCS
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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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.…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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,…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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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