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Full Frame Road Show

    Throughout the year, Full Frame brings free documentary films to partnering venues around the North Carolina, making transformative film experiences available to communities around the region. The Road Show frequently features films that have screened at the annual film festival. Past Road Show partners have included the Durham County Public Library, The Cary Theater, The Carolina Theatre of Durham, and Durham Central Park.

    Road Show at Durham Central Park

     

    ROAD SHOW SCREENINGS

     

    Two people lying on the floor laughing, surrounded by dogsCOME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT
    Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2026 | 7–9 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    An unexpectedly funny and joyful love story, poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley navigate life and mortality in the face of an incurable diagnosis. (Dir. Ryan White, Full Frame 2025).

     

     

    MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN
    Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2026 | 7–9 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school. (Dirs. David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin; Full Frame 2025).

     

    A black-and-white image of a person in a straw cowboy hat and white tee shirt, holding a baby in their muscled arms.SEEDS
    Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2026 | 7–9 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    Seeds is a portrait of Centennial farmers in the geographical south. Using lyrical black-and-white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land. (Dir. Brittany Shyne)

     

    A children's picture book artist bends over a desk with a paintbrush in hand.

    STORY & PICTURES BY
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
    Durham County Public Library

    STORY & PICTURES BY (Directed by Joanna Rudnick; Full Frame 2024) focuses on three children’s picture book authors: Christian Robinson, Yuyi Morales, and Mac Barnett. The film demonstrates how childhood stories mold our imaginations and how much magic they still hold for us, even as adults.

     

    soldier in front of a stenciled metal door reading "hollywoodgate"

    HOLLYWOODGATE
    Thursday, February 06, 2025 | 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    HOLLYWOODGATE (Directed by Ibrahim Nash’at, Full Frame 2025) spends a year inside Afghanistan, following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache of weaponry America left behind and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.

     

    A worker stands shielding their face with a sheaf of papers in front of an Amazon sign

    UNION
    Thursday, January 30, 2025 | 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    UNION (Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, Full Frame 2024) tells the story of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU)—a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island—as it takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

     

    DAUGHTERS
    Thursday, January 23, 2025 | 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    In DAUGHTERS/ U.S. (Directors: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae), four young girls prepare for a special Daddy-Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.