October 6, 2016

SCOTT’S PIZZA TOURS

WORLD PREMIERE Scott Wiener probably knows more about pizza than anyone else in the world. Channeling his infectious enthusiasm into a successful pizza-tasting tour business, the New Yorker has found unlikely fame, winning fans around the world – who contribute to his massive collection of pizza boxes. Scott’s Pizza Tours delectably demonstrates Wiener’s appeal, following […]

October 6, 2016

SHORTS: I ♥ NY

If you can make it here… An artist embarks on The Moving Camera Project (USA, 5 min., Andrew Moynehan, Chelsea Moynehan), while a courthouse job helps a Working Stiff (USA, 5 min., Sarah Hanssen) support his art. The Dogist (USA, 6 min., E.J. McLeavey- Fisher) profiles an Instagram canine photographer and author, while The Tricks […]

October 6, 2016

FERAL LOVE

NYC PREMIERE From outside appearances, Dorian Rence ticks all the boxes of stereotypical crazy cat lady. After catching sight of a feral cat colony in the tunnels around Riverside Park over a decade ago, she took on the task of caring for the cats – not even a hospitalization kept her from missing a feeding. But […]

October 11, 2015

SHORTS: PUSHING THE BOUNDS

True innovation. What Lies Beneath the Sky (USA, 9 min., Vladimir de Fontenay) turns NYC into a canvas for a meditative city portrait in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Morgan Green Shaves Her Head Backwards (USA, 3 min., Morgan Green), records it and sets it to a score. A filmmaker discovers María 95 (USA, 14 […]

October 11, 2015

SUPER-UNIT(S)

Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a “housing machine” and its main characters are people living in the block and going through important moments of their lives.    

October 9, 2015

DREAMCATCHER

A candid portrait of a woman’s redemptive fight against sexual exploitation, Kim Longinotto’s masterful observational film follows Brenda, a charismatic former drug addict and prostitute who, having turned her life around, has made it her mission to give hope to women and girls in need. Through her Dreamcatcher Foundation, she reaches out to sex workers, […]

October 9, 2015

TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART

In the 1960s and ‘70s, a group of NYC-based artists abandoned the constraints of gallery spaces and the demands of the marketplace, moving to the expanse of the American Southwest to engage in a radical reconceptualization of their artistic practice. Turning to nature, acclaimed artists like Michael Heizer (Double Negative) and Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty) […]

October 9, 2015

THE REINVENTION OF NORMAL

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Reinvention of Normal follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist-inventor-designer, on his quest for new ideas.

October 9, 2015

THE ABSENTEES

WORLD PREMIERE   A story of thousands of Rohingyas–a people persecuted at home and abroad–told through the voice of Raees, a refugee in Dubai.

October 8, 2015

OLD FRIENDS

WORLD PREMIERE At once intimately personal and expansively universal, Peter Odabashian’s bittersweet reflection on friendship and happiness demonstrates the power of an intentional community of kindred spirits on one’s life. Through affectionate, free-flowing interviews with an eclectic group of longtime friends his wife Esther and he have made both in NYC and in their home […]