NYC PREMIERE Acclaimed filmmaker Peter Greenaway – perhaps best known for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover – is a lover of patterns and sequences, a motif that recurs throughout his work. In this playful portrait by his wife, multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke, Greenaway engages in an autobiographical alphabetic word association led by […]
NYC PREMIERE In 2006 a rush of molten mud exploded in East Java, Indonesia, flooding 16 villages and displacing more than 60,000 people; 12 years later the hot sludge is still flowing. Grit profiles one girl’s awakening to activism as her family campaigns against the corporation responsible for the man-made catastrophe. Cynthia Wade and Sasha […]
In his lyrical directorial debut, winner of a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at this year’s Sundance, acclaimed photographer RaMell Ross rewrites familiar representational tropes of race, region and class in this impressionistic portrait of two young African-American men in the American South over five years. The film’s unique storytelling, composed of intimate, associative […]
Sil (10) and Merlijn (11) are about to go on a big adventure: they will visit a refugee camp at Lesbos and stay there for a week. Through their mothers, who both work there, they have heard stories about the children that live there. Now they want to see for themselves. What is it like […]
Carl grew up a sharecropper on 22 acres in rural Iowa, which he now calls The Promised Land. A philosopher, inventor, and farmer, he shares with us the deeply intricate workings of his projects, (including a full span bridge he built with his hands), how they are connected to the land which was given to […]
NYC PREMIERE Lush and luxurious, California’s Napa and Sonoma Valleys are known for their top-notch wine making. The unsung heroes of the industry are the vineyard workers and small producers, who lovingly oversee all aspects of the wine-making process, from vine to vintage. Unfolding over the course of one of the most dramatic harvests in […]
A meditative portrait of two women who confronted great adversity with a profound bond and remarkable positivity, The Head & The Hand presents a rich exploration of disability, independence and sisterhood. Courtesy of Lost Time Media
NYC PREMIERE Janus Metz is known for his war documentary Armadillo (DOC NYC 2010) and his recent fiction film Borg vs McEnroe. For ten years, he’s worked with anthropologist Sine Plambech on this longitudinal study of a Danish town where many of the local men have married women from Thailand. Heartbound follows several Danish-Thai couples […]
NYC PREMIERE A woman’s place is in the kitchen… or is it? Men still far outnumber women in the kitchens of restaurants worldwide. Director Maya Gallus profiles seven female chefs who have talent and passion, but have been subjected to shocking sexism as they fought for their careers. A no-holds-barred look into the kitchens of […]
NYC PREMIERE America’s mountain and rural populace has long been an easy target for ridicule. Stereotyped in the media as lazy and ignorant, and dismissed by politicians as backwards, they’re considered the lowest rung of American society. Directors Rubin and York return to York’s hometown in the Appalachian hills to give voice to the thoughts […]