Oscar®-nominated directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp, Detropia), recipients of the Robert & Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence at this year’s DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute, “have made their most powerful and complex film” (The Hollywood Reporter). One of Us profiles three members of New York’s Hasidic Jewish community who wish to explore […]
NYC PREMIERE Acclaimed filmmaker Mila Turajlic (Cinema Komunisto) follows the recent troubled history of Serbia through the experiences of her mother, Srbijanka, a tireless dissident against multiple regimes. Over the course of several months, Mila and Srbijanka engage in probing and humorous dialogues over Serbia’s past, present and future. Their country has typically gained more […]
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE When she’s not tending her garden or taking in stray animals, genteel 80-year-old Carmel runs the oldest working brothel in the remote gold-mining town of Kalgoorlie, Australia. This madam with a heart of gold and her faithful yet troubled sex worker BJ try to stay afloat despite challenges from new online escort services […]
US PREMIERE To reckon with the aftermath of 9/11, the US Congress set up a special fund to compensate victims of national disasters, and called upon Ken Feinberg to dispassionately assess claims. Decades before, the compensation specialist had determined damages for Agent Orange-exposed Vietnam vets. Later, he oversaw compensation for the victims of Deepwater Horizon, […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE French actor-turned-director Eric Caravaca unearths personal family history in search of his sister Charlotte, who died as a toddler before he was born. His evocative investigation expertly threads the emotional mystery surrounding her death and the systematic erasure of her life by his parents, who rarely discussed Charlotte while Caravaca was growing […]
WORLD PREMIERE Hari Kondabolu has had a nemesis for nearly his entire life, someone who has plagued the stand-up comedian since he was a child, subjecting him to ridicule and racist comments: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, better known as the Indian owner of the Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons. For Hari, Apu represents an outdated and offensive South […]
NYC PREMIERE In the mid-1980s, Bruce LaBruce and G. B. Jones, a pair of young Canadians, introduced the world to the burgeoning Toronto queer punk scene through homemade zines and scrappy films. In this pre-Internet era, there was no way of knowing that queercore consisted of just two people. Soon enough, their subversive creation spread […]
NYC PREMIERE New York City’s Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has charmed audiences for more than four decades, bringing the dance form to a modern audience… with a decided twist. Formed in an era of newfound gay liberation, the Trocks, as the all-male troupe is affectionately known, fuses camp humor with classical ballet, performing […]
Part of our Bring a Friend special – get 2 tickets for the price of 1! NYC PREMIERE Over the course of three years, journalist Adil Khan Farooq follows the charismatic Ubaydullah Hussain, an outspoken Norwegian Muslim missionary, as he recruits young converts to Islam. Hussain is revealed as an extremist, supporting acts of terror and […]
Part of our Bring a Friend special – get 2 tickets for the price of 1! WORLD PREMIERE In London, Sally has spent £40,000 watching Les Miserables every two weeks for much of her life. German Gudrun regularly cosplays as her favorite Starlight Express character. In California, Christine has assembled the largest collection of Cats memorabilia […]