NYC PREMIERE In this poignant reflection of boyhood, the diverging paths of two young friends offer a realistic testament to how economic and social circumstances can shape a life. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ché Scott-Heron Newton. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon […]
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE The community and friendship of Black British teen roller skaters speak to joy, freedom, and the quiet ache of growing up too soon. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ajuán Isaac-George. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC […]
US PREMIERE A warm, humorous, and tender look at the daily happenings in a downtown Toronto park—reflecting on belonging, memory, and the beautiful theater of everyday life. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mingzhe Zhou. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue […]
NYC PREMIERE With the city’s finances in free fall, and with no support from the state or national government, activist squatters organize and create a vibrant community in 1980s NYC. – DeWitt Davis The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Katie Heiserman and Elana Meyers. All in-person screening venues […]
WORLD PREMIERE Family owners of the Petal Pusher flower shop, part of Penn Station’s subterranean commerce community since the 1970s, reflect. – DeWitt Davis The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director David Abel. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can […]
NYC PREMIERE Liza Donnelly gathers a witty crew of fellow New Yorker women cartoonists to swap doodles, discuss their passion and process, and share a peek into the iconic magazine’s history. – Karen McMullen The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/ film participant Liza Donnelly and director Kathleen Hughes. […]
NY PREMIERE If you could go back in time and change the course of history, what would you do? Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia flips that idea on its head with a great deal more urgency: if we knew what the future would be, what could we do now? In this hybrid film, fictional footage from […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Drug-stricken Gottsunda is an underprivileged suburb of the city of Uppsala, Sweden, which has turned into a ghetto for immigrant families. In this first-person essay film that alternates observational scenes with experimental interludes shot in Super8, director Loran Batti crafts 21 elegant, self-reflexive scenes about his memories, his background, his encounters with […]
NYC PREMIERE Debra Granik’s forthcoming limited series Conbody vs Everybody is at once a story of the school-of-tough-knocks education of a charismatic ex-con, Coss Marte, as he tries to rebuild his life, and a portrait of the teeming life and energy of New York City’s Lower East Side, captured with the authenticity of atmosphere that […]
WORLD PREMIERE This documentary exposes housing injustice in NYC, following the David-and-Goliath battles between ordinary renters and powerful developers. Through stories from neighborhoods across the boroughs, the film reveals the harsh realities of unsafe housing, unethical landlords, and an overwhelmed housing court system. It also uncovers a troubling pattern of desirably located properties being seized […]