Film Category: NEW DOCS

Man Who Loved Haugesund
Jon Haukeland, Tore Vollan

What was it like to be the only Jew in a small town on the west coast of Norway in the 1920s and 1930s? This…

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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Neil Sedaka had it right: “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”—even harder if that refers to heavy metal mega-band Metallica. With a career spanning more…

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Monster Road
Brett Ingram

This fascinating documentary by North Carolina filmmakers Brett Ingram and Jim Haverkamp explores the world of Bruce Bickford, a legend in underground animation circles whose…

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Music from the Inside Out
Daniel Anker

Musicians are people, too. This intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra delves into the lives of gifted musicians outside the concert hall. Music…

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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Charles Burnett

Nat Turner—the infamous leader of a short-lived but brutal slave rebellion—is one of the pivotal figures in America’s knotty history of racial conflict. Venerated by…

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To Live is Better Than to Die
Weijun Chen

The filmmaker spends a year filming a family of five in their modest home in rural China. All except the eldest daughter have AIDS. Without…

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Home of the Brave
Paola di Florio

Viola Liuzzo was the only white woman murdered during the Civil Rights movement, and her dramatic story provides a somber backdrop to a nuanced family…

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Home of the Brave — Land of the Free
John Sullivan

The reality of US operations in Afghanistan as you’ve never seen them before. An American Special Forces unit travels around the country trying to win…

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Screaming Men
Mika Ronkainen

Twenty-five men, mostly blonde, form a two-row semi-circle around a pre-determined point on a large expanse of ice just inside the Arctic Circle. One anticipates…

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Dirty Work
David Sampliner, Tim Nackashi

Follow a bull semen collector, a septic tank pumper, and a preparer of cadavers into their worlds in this account of individuals who lost their…

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