WORLD PREMIERE Director Emmett Adler explores the role of the MTA in New York City and the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic had on the vital service it provides: transporting New York’s essential workers. The film acknowledges the decline of the subway infrastructure as a political issue and captures a tumultuous time that impacted every […]
NYC PREMIERE Mobile homes have long been an affordable option for people who struggle with the cost of other housing in the United States. But now the economy of mobile home parks is under threat as private equity firms are buying up properties and looking to squeeze more money out of mobile home owners. Filmmaker […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Opening Night Gala screenings at 7:00 & 7:30, filmmakers in person Screening Only added at 9:45 PM ($20) US PREMIERE Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, helped change the way we look at urban living. As we celebrate the centenary of her birth, Citizen Jane focuses on Jacobs’s most […]
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 […]
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.
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, […]
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) […]