Lhakpa Sherpa is the first Nepali woman to summit and descend Mount Everest – but how she navigates her life as a single mother and immigrant is an even more heroic tale. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker illuminates the inspiring world of a remarkable woman who continues to venture forth from her new life in Connecticut […]
Directed by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists, No Other Land chronicles the resistance of the Palestinian community of Musafer Yatta in the southern West Bank to continuing violence from Israeli settlers and soldiers. Filmed over several years, the film chronicles a bond of friendship between Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham as they unite […]
What is worth fighting for, if not culture? Three Ukrainian artists take up arms when Russia invades their country, but refuse to put down their drive to create. After enlisting to defend their beloved homeland, Slava, Anya and Andrey channel their art into their new roles on the front lines, and demonstrate their pride in […]
Jenna grew up in the desolate Siberian town of Magadan, and did what innumerable queer young people around the world do— depart for a major urban center that promises a more inclusive environment. Except in Putin’s Russia, the criminalization of LGBTQIA+ people renders even a Moscow art school hostile to Jenna’s elaborately original, creative art […]
In this magnificent essay film, Johan Grimonprez explores the riveting historical rollercoaster of the Congo after its independence from colonial control. Richly illustrated with eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, and a veritable pantheon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates Cold War history to tell an urgent […]
Unmarked graves, found at a British Columbia boarding school that Indigenous children were forced to attend, expose the school’s horrific abuses. The filmmakers investigate the 1959 trial of a student accused of abandoning her newborn, and the generational trauma the incident caused for members of the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. A landmark for its sensitive insistence […]
WORLD PREMIERE The Bibi Files is an urgent journalistic exposé, based on never-before-seen leaked footage and new interviews with key Israeli figures. The film details the corruption cases that resulted in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being indicted for charges of breach of trust, bribery, and fraud in 2019. Many Israelis believe that Netanyahu’s attempts […]
Confined to a wheelchair and suffering from a degenerative muscular disease, a young Norwegian man was believed to be living in relative isolation in a physically limited world. Yet as Ibelin, his alter ego inside the World of Warcraft online game, Mats Steen created a full universe for himself, where he lived, loved, strove and […]
Against incredible odds and immense opposition, a group of current and former Amazon workers form a labor union and petition the formidable corporate behemoth for more dignified and humane treatment at the company’s Staten Island warehouse. Steve Maing and Brett Story provide stunning moments of observation of the union group as they stumble through early […]
Will & Harper follows comedian Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele taking a road trip across America. Harper, a former Saturday Night Live writer, recently came out as a woman and wonders how her transition might affect her friendships. On their journey, Harper experiences moments of acceptance in unexpected places, but also acts of […]