NYC PREMIERE When her father, a farmer and activist, disappeared in 1992, filmmaker Ángela Carabalí was just 7 years old. Decades later, a dream in which he asks Ángela to find him sparks a journey of remembrance and reckoning. Blending family testimony, archival images, and Indigenous rituals, Carabalí confronts the silence of Colombia’s armed conflict. […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Pedro, a claims adjuster navigating Mexico’s corrupt insurance industry, spends his days probing tragedies while resisting pressure to manipulate the truth. Seeking escape, he turns to contemporary art and theater, befriending artist Miguel Calderón, only to confront a parallel world of vanity and deceit. Blurring observation, reenactment, and performance, the film intertwines […]
WORLD PREMIERE In September 2024, spiritual advisor Jeff Hood travels to Oklahoma to fight for the stay of an incarcerated man’s execution—and to provide spiritual guidance if the state carries it out. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Joel Fendelman. The second screening will be followed by […]
WORLD PREMIERE Filmmaker Rosella Tursi humorously investigates the family legend of when her grandmother was held hostage by bank robbers. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Rosella Tursi. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a […]
WORLD PREMIERE After decades in prison, Todd Scott, Chad Campbell, and Carlos Rebollo navigate the complex bureaucracy of the parole system and deal with its psychological toll. All three men, incarcerated as teens, wrestle with the weight of their crimes, questioning how they can appropriately express their deep remorse to a parole board that will […]
NYC PREMIERE This harrowing documentary embeds with three Trump supporters—a new father, a conservative Latino ex-military, and a Proud Boy—leading up to and following the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The film chillingly captures the raw, unsettling scenes of the rioters, steeped in pro-Trump zeal. Through rallies touting MAGA values and conspiracy theories, […]
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 […]
WORLD PREMIERE In 2015, three young Muslims were murdered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 36 SECONDS documents the heartbreaking aftermath in that community, and reflects on what it means to be Muslim in the American South, where the country’s gun laws and Islamophobia intersect. Through the devastation and heartbreak of the film emerges a portrait […]
NYC PREMIERE Rage. Anger. Shock. Fear. As the nation watched in disbelief, throngs of rioters descended on the capitol, and the people on the ground, mired in chaos, suddenly found their lives in jeopardy. From Nancy Pelosi, to Liz Cheney, to Steven Sund, D.C. Police Chief, more than 50 senators, representatives, staffers and police officers […]
WORLD PREMIERE Stevan, a 60-year-old, former porn performer from Serbia awaits the outcome of a Kafkaesque trial process in a Maltese prison. The moody landscapes reflect the loneliness and desperate state he was in prior to his arrest for public exposure in this bizarre story, which unspools like an eerie mystery. – Ruth Somalo The […]