High Chaparral
NYC PREMIERE A theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden becomes a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. This film screens before the film SERENADE FOR HAITI
2016
Dangerous Curves
WORLD PREMIERE Dangerous Curves is about an autistic man in rural Iowa who starts a sprint car team with the first transgender driver and how their friendship heals both of them. Born intersex, with both male and female genitalia, Terri O’Connell was raised male in the rough and tumble world of southern racing. In 1999, […]
Culcha
WORLD PREMIERE Culcha struggles with his relationship with his father. He is a resident of Nonsuch, Jamaica. This film will play before the Film VISITOR’S DAY.
BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY
NYC PREMIERE Bert Berns may not be a household name, but over a remarkably prolific yet scant seven years, the songwriter and producer was behind such classics as “Piece of My Heart,” “Under the Boardwalk” and “Twist and Shout,” while also launching the careers of Van Morrison and Neil Diamond. His son, Brett, together with […]
THE BALLAD OF FRED HERSCH
NYC PREMIERE Jazz pianist Fred Hersch has been playing professionally for the better part of four decades. He survived a potentially career-ending revelation in the early 1990s that he was gay and HIV-positive to win international acclaim for his masterful style and unique compositions. Eight years ago, however, Hersch nearly lost his life. This intimate […]
THE WONDERFUL KINGDOM OF PAPA ALAEV
US PREMIERE The Alaev Family, a multigenerational family folk-rock group, has been performing for more than 50 years, blending Eastern European, Jewish and Roma influences in unforgettable performances. After the fall of the Soviet Union, their benevolent dictator, Papa Allo, moved his clan from their native Tajikistan to Israel, where he has continued to exert […]
RAVING IRAN
US PREMIERE Together, Anoosh and Arash are Blade & Beard, a pair of techno DJs known for throwing raves in the desert. But they live in Iran, so their scene is underground, their events are secret and they have to stay one step ahead of their repressive country’s morality police or risk imprisonment. Just as […]
L7: PRETEND WE’RE DEAD
WORLD PREMIERE Grab your backstage pass and take a visceral immersion into the 1990s with one of its seminal grunge punk bands, L7. Pigeonholed as an all-female band despite their every effort, L7’s fierce members struggled against music industry and fan expectations even as they contended with questions of celebrity and success. Assembling a dynamic […]
SERENADE FOR HAITI
WORLD PREMIERE Since 1956, Sainte Trinité Music School has brought classical music into the lives of thousands of Haitians. Its director, Father David Cesar, has established music programs throughout the island nation, helping make music education accessible to all. In the wake of 2010’s catastrophic earthquake, the school is destroyed — but Father Cesar, his faculty […]
MARATHON: THE PATRIOTS DAY BOMBING
NYC PREMIERE On April 15, 2013, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s powerful film reveals the immediate impact of the terrorist attack on Boston as the city goes on lockdown and a manhunt ensues for the bombers, […]