Film Category: NEW DOCS

Competition
Maciej Adamek

It’s a small world after all. Young girls in Poland apparently harbor the same dreams of beauty, fame, and stardom as young girls here in…

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Lookalike
Aaron Lubarsky, Edet Belzberg, Jonathan Karsh

Who secretly longs for the day when Robert DeNiro will show up to someone’s famously lackluster birthday party? Yeah, that’ll happen. But what if it…

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Olivia’s Puzzle
Jason DaSilva

Olivia is a 7-year-old girl of Indian descent who lives in British Columbia. Reshma is a 7-year-old Indian girl who lives in Goa. This charming…

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A Procession of Them
Eugene Richards

Nine people with concealed still 35mm cameras sneak into the Ocaranza Psychiatric Institute in Hidalgo, Mexico. The resulting montage of still images, often blurry and/or…

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Father’s Day
Mark Lipman

With its deceptively restrained tone, this film investigates a father’s passing through edited home movies laid over with a contemporary soundtrack in which family members…

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Foxhole
Franko Galoso

Using the metaphor of a foxhole as a place a soldier can feel safe, two Vietnam veterans reflect on how their meeting during the war…

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The Great Cheesesteak Debate
Scott Vosbury

The fat’s in the fire—Pat’s, Geno’s, Jim’s, or Tony Luke’s? Cheese whiz or provolone? The meat, the roll, or the restaurant hygiene? Young or old,…

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Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Jordan Mechner

In the 1940s, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chavez Ravine was home to 300 Latino families. As in many American cities in the 1950s, these…

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Tobacco Money Feeds My Family
Cynthia Hill

Depicting the contemporary lives of several local tobacco farmers, Tobacco Money Feeds My Family makes the convincing case that one cannot truly tell the story…

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True Life Movie: First Year
Banks Tarver

Join three people as they try to make their career dreams come true in the first year of their professional pursuits: an aspiring recording artist,…

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