US Premiere A poetic, riveting, and cathartic exploration of the lies and misrememberings of director Asmae El Moudir’s family, surrounding the Casablanca Bread Riots of 1981. The period of repression known in Morocco as the “Years of Lead” is hardly ever discussed. Narratives of trauma, loss, and love are recovered here through exquisite re-enactments played […]
These shorts document the process of starting over, capturing what we leave behind and what the future holds. – Samah Ali This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village East by AngelikaDescriptive Audio for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village East by AngelikaClosed Captioning […]
NYC PREMIERE As her 90th birthday approaches, Nina divulges the story behind her sister’s disappearance during the Holocaust. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE In this gem of minimalist and poetic magnetism, filmmaker Oskar Alegría and adorable donkey Paolo embark on a journey to bring provisions to the last shepherd of the Andia Mountains. Retracing the seasonal route his grandfather made with his flock, Alegría collects a trove of memories from a disappearing world, embodied in […]
NYC PREMIERE As each generation ages, the need to record family history before it is forever lost increases in urgency. Filmmaker Beth Lane’s maternal family tree held a truly extraordinary story of an entire family of seven siblings who escaped Nazi Germany and managed to stay together until reaching safety in America. Told with wit, […]
NYC PREMIERE As many remember, 1999 presented a strange existential crisis in which we didn’t know what the next year and the new millennium would bring. Well-traveled on the festival circuit, this archival time capsule captures the unprecedented frenzy of Y2K just as the internet begins to transform the world. – Bedatri Choudhury The first […]
WORLD PREMIERE In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate why Black neighborhoods all over the country were “rioting” in protest. He was blindsided by the findings, which blamed the government for race-exclusive policies that fomented poverty, housing crises, unemployment, and discrimination. The film commemorates the landmark report and hints at […]
A groundbreaking all-archival documentary film about Lady Bird Johnson, one of the most influential and least understood first ladies. Beautifully honed from 123 hours of Lady Bird’s intimate audio diary, the film brings her to life and reveals her as a shrewd political strategist who preserved natural resources for the American people through her policies […]
US PREMIERE Through a thick layer of snow in the forests of Russia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. With no help from official channels, he traces the dead and rescues their memory […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE This fun caper movie explores the true story behind the rumors that, at the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government rigged the most influential art exhibition, the Venice Biennale. With an extraordinary cast of experts and insiders from the art world and extensive archival footage, the film reveals the plans […]