NYC PREMIERE Diana Kennedy fell in love with Mexican food over 60 years ago, and has made it her mission to document and celebrate the regional varieties of Mexico’s cuisine ever since, becoming the world’s leading authority. Now in her 90s, the celebrated British-born chef and cookbook author is still as feisty and no-nonsense as […]
NYC PREMIERE For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a joy, packed with legendary stars and performances. Key players—Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway’s most groundbreaking shows, from A Chorus Line to […]
US PREMIERE In 2016, 50 years of military rule in Myanmar ended when power was transferred to former political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. While her ascendancy represented a victory for democracy, she came under fire after military involvement in the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority. Archival footage […]
OPENING NIGHT FILM US PREMIERE: The Band got started as a group of musicians backing up Bob Dylan on tour, but grew into a legend in their own right, starting with the 1968 album Music from the Big Pink (recorded in Woodstock) and culminating in their 1976 farewell concert filmed by Martin Scorsese for The Last […]
China’s one-child policy ended in 2015, but it has had a haunting impact on several generations of Chinese families. After the birth of her own child, filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow) returns to her village, where she begins an investigation into the controversial population control program. Posing difficult questions to family members, local party officials, […]
Follow artist JR in the creation of his first video mural project, The Chronicles of San Francisco.
A father’s immigration story from Peru to the US, showing what it means to grow old as a Latino immigrant in the age of Trump.
NYC PREMIERE In rural southern Florida, Na’Kerria, Jocabed, Junior, and BJ anxiously prepare for life outside Pahokee High School. Collaborating with these personable teenagers, filmmakers Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan follow them throughout their senior year, navigating small triumphs and difficult tragedies along the way. As the teens complete several rites of passage, including glorious […]
NYC PREMIERE Taimaa and Nour are two pregnant Syrian refugees who find themselves navigating fresh marriages as they each enter motherhood while held in temporary camps. Competing with thousands of other refugees in Greece for resources, Taimaa and Nour find that parenting comes easier than either bureaucratic answers or marital bliss. Both women make desperate […]
US PREMIERE Paris is a beloved tourist destination, but this film shows us a side of the city most of us will never see. Director Hind Meddeb and co-director Thim Naccache train their cameras on the community of refugees sleeping in the streets in the district called Stalingrad in 2016. Most prominent is a refugee […]