LE MUR ET L’EAU
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Le Mur et L’Eau (The Water and the Wall) is a movie about the issue of the father, about transmission, childhood and cinema as the art of childhood.
2015
CONFESSIONS
NYC PREMIERE A South American woman with a secret position talks about her covert work.
WORLDS ON EDGE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A day in the most unequal neighborhood of São Paulo.
HE NAMED ME MALALA
Malala Yousafzai gained world attention at age 15 when she spoke out for girls’ education from her home in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and survived being shot in the head by Taliban militants. Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) gives a close-up portrait of this strong-willed teenager and her family. The title’s “he” refers to […]
GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF
Based on Lawrence Wright’s book of the same name, Alex Gibney’s latest film is a provocative exposé of the inner workings of the Church of Scientology. Balancing insightful history – including the origins of the controversial organization and a profile of its founder, science fiction author L Ron Hubbard – with revelatory interviews with former […]
DREAMCATCHER
A candid portrait of a woman’s redemptive fight against sexual exploitation, Kim Longinotto’s masterful observational film follows Brenda, a charismatic former drug addict and prostitute who, having turned her life around, has made it her mission to give hope to women and girls in need. Through her Dreamcatcher Foundation, she reaches out to sex workers, […]
CARTEL LAND
Unwilling to become a victim of Mexico’s notorious drug cartels, a small-town physician organizes a grassroots civilian defense force to combat the danger and instability they’ve wrought. On the other side of the border, a veteran fearful that the violence will cross into America sets up his own paramilitary group. Director Matthew Heineman embeds himself […]
TIGER TIGER
NYC PREMIERE Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, one of the world’s top big cat biologists, tracks the tigers of the Sundarbans on the border of India and Bangladesh, considered among the most dangerous places on the planet. entering the ancient kingdom of the elusive, endangered Royal Bengal Tiger, he searches for a way the beast might coexist […]
HUNTWATCH
WORLD PREMIERE In Canada, seal hunting was historically considered to be a respectable job until people witnessed the graphic images of the practice for themselves on television. Angry and committed to save the seals, Brian Davies, a charismatic young activist, sets out on a crusade that becomes his life’s mission. Using the power of cinematography, […]
HARRY & SNOWMAN
NYC PREMIERE Seeking his fortunes in post-World War II America, Dutch immigrant Harry deLeyer became a riding master for an exclusive all-girls boarding school in Long Island. When he bought an unassuming old white Amish plow horse bound for the glue factory, he had no way of knowing his $80 investment in Snowman would not […]