WORLD PREMIERE The rise in anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric in the US since the 2016 election has generated a new wave of activists. One of them is actor/writer/producer/comedian Aasif Mandvi, “the first brown guy” on The Daily Show. This short film, featuring a performance by Mandvi, Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr., reveals what led […]
WORLD PREMIERE Ofra Bloch, a New York-based psychoanalyst specializing in trauma, was born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family that emigrated to Palestine in the 1920s. Disturbed by the resurgence of fascism and anti-Semitism around the world, Ofra travels to Germany, Israel, and Palestine to confront her own deep-seated feelings about Germans and Palestinians, and […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Alicia has been in the care of the Netherlands Child Welfare Bureau since she was one year old. Rejected, constantly moved and desperate for her mother’s affection, the child grows up in front of the viewer’s eyes in this raw and powerful portrait of institutionalized childhood. A gem of observational cinema, at […]
WORLD PREMIERE After a contentious race last fall, the runoff for mayor of New Orleans came down to two candidates: Desiree Charbonnet and LaToya Cantrell, two very different black women. The winner of this election would take office as the first female mayor of New Orleans and the city’s fourth black mayor. Through news footage, […]
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Before leaving for Germany where he will undergo irreversible surgery, Liam reflects on his previous female identity.
NYC PREMIERE Through immersive cinematography and exquisite sound design, one of Europe’s last remaining old-growth forests comes alive in a poetic documentary about the quotidian rituals, survival and non-anthropocentric harmony of the varied inhabitants of a Lithuanian woodland. Biologist-turned-filmmaker Mindaugas Survila spent a decade making this extraordinary project, patiently infusing its panoply of nonhuman characters […]
US PREMIERE Famous Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas and renowned African-American sex educator Mollena Williams meet on a blind date. Sharing an appetite for kinky sex, they fall in love and begin a controversial journey towards radical self-determination. From their oasis in the Upper West Side, the couple disregards society’s definitions of ownership, perversion and […]
Celebrated artist Barbara Kruger uses the visual language of advertising to critique the very messages it emulates. Her work asks viewers to closely consider how global issues like consumerism and gender discrimination play a powerful role in their daily lives. “Something to really think about is what makes us who we are in the world […]
2018 METROPOLIS COMPETITION WINNER US PREMIERE Offering a recontextualization of the 1960s New York art and experimental film scene through the story of a remarkably influential, yet unheralded, figure, Chuck Smith’s film introduces viewers to Barbara Rubin. This extraordinary young filmmaker, who defied sexist conventions when she picked up a film camera and shot an […]
NYC PREMIERE Despite undeniable scientific evidence, there are still people who believe that Earth is flat. A small but surprisingly growing community insists that our planet is a flat disk encased by a dome, and they have uncovered the truth. By profiling passionate advocates of the Flat Earth theory and exploring their certainty about something […]