Film Category: Thematic

Diaries
Ed Pincus

Pioneering documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus (Black Natchez, 1967; Axe in the Attic, 2007) embodied the utopian hopes, fears, and neuroses of the Sixties generation when…

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51 Birch Street
Doug Block

Within a few months of his mother’s unexpected death, Doug Block is stunned to learn that his father, Mike, plans to move to Florida to…

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F for Fake
Orson Welles

Forgery, misrepresentation, and reinterpretation of past events swirl together in a kaleidoscopic illustration of fact and
fiction.

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Fighter
Amir Bar-Lev

As two friends, both survivors of Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, travel to revisit the past, they find the journey
threatens their relationship.

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Forbidden Lie$
Anna Broinowski

Con or artist? Nourma Khouri, author of a bestselling book about the honor killing of a friend, is accused of taking
significant artistic liberties.

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A Man Vanishes
Shohei Imamura

A film crew sets out to discover what became of a Japanese salesman who disappeared in the 1960s.

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My Kid Could Paint That
Amir Bar-Lev

Everything changes when there’s a suggestion that the celebrated paintings of a prodigy toddler may not be entirely hers.

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Operation Filmmaker
Nina Davenport

Good intentions go terribly awry when the filmmakers of a Hollywood movie bring an aspiring filmmaker from Iraq to
intern on set.

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Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley

This extremely personal film tenderly exposes a deep family secret, revealing the various, and varied, recollections of
everyone involved.

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Theater of War
John Walter

A behind-the-scenes look at a modern production of Mother Courage and Her Children gives way to a nuanced examination of storytelling.

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