NYC PREMIERE In Chuck Workmans’s montage/documentary with over 125 moments from significant documentaries of the past 100 years from Nanook to RBG with short remarks from significant filmmakers like Barbara Kopple, Ken Burns, Michael Moore, Ava DuVernay, Frederick Wiseman and others.
WORLD PREMIERE Music and clowns are my brother’s two great passions in life. Jamie is close to nonverbal so the rest of the family are left filing in the gaps when we discuss what life is like for him. Our differing perspectives show as much about us as they do Jamie.
Following the death of his emotionally distant father, filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand him through the personal belongings he left behind… including a stack of dirty VHS tapes. Courtesy of New York Times Op-Docs
A man battling reclusion and a racehorse on the brink of death save each other in unexpected ways.
WORLD PREMIERE Aaron Hernandez had it all: a successful career with the New England Patriots, millions of fans, financial stability and a loving family. Yet behind the facade of success lurked a very different man, one with a taste for violence and danger. Produced by acclaimed sports journalists Dan Wetzel and Kevin Armstrong, My Perfect […]
WORLD PREMIERE Two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA) chronicles the experiences of five refugee children from war-torn Syria and Iraq whose families have resettled in Canada. In this sweetly observed film, Kopple follows the boys for two weeks at a summer camp in the Canadian wilderness. We watch as some boys thrive […]
NYC PREMIERE Did you know Santa Claus keeps a summer home? Established in the late 1940s, upstate New York’s Santa’s Workshop is one of America’s original theme parks, with singing elves, talking trees and secret workshops. This whimsical and nostalgic film documents the park’s idealistic genesis to current-day economic challenges, including a con man who […]
Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Akiko’s childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima’s ruins.
NYC PREMIERE In this Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning film, director Talal Derki (Return to Homs) returns to his native Syria and gains remarkably unfettered access to a radical jihadist and his family for two years. General Abu Osama raises his young sons to become Islamist fighters, but what if they just want to […]
US PREMIERE One of Scotland’s last salmon fishing families is accused of animal rights violations. Constantly followed and recorded by environmental watchdog groups, the Pullar family attempts to pursue its livelihood using hunting practices passed down for generations. Tensions escalate when the government becomes involved. Is there a future for their traditional way of fishing? […]