NYC PREMIERE A tenacious Atlanta music teacher creates the first youth orchestra for undocumented and mixed-status families, providing a place to find community, beauty, and hope in the face of increasing adversity. – Anita Raswant The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Monica Villavicencio and Stephanie Liu. All in-person […]
NYC PREMIERE The transformative journeys of Arkansas teachers and students pioneering the first nationwide AP African-American Studies class amid a fierce national debate. – Murtada Elfadl The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Anurima Bhargava. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC […]
NYC PREMIERE On an idyllic farm in rural Georgia, beekeeping parents tenderly share their knowledge of life, love, and nature with their young sons while restoring their homestead. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Arielle Knight. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with […]
Stories that command attention about those who fight for a better future for all. Banned Book Club | Director: Sinead Keirans | Producers: Em Shapiro, Mary-Elizabeth EsquibelNEW YORK PREMIERE In central Texas, high school students read books banned from the library shelves in hopes of fighting for their return. – DD (USA, 16 MIN) The Menstruation […]
This film was part of the 2024 DOC NYC Festival. NYC PREMIERE – Left Behind illuminates the struggles of NYC schoolchildren with dyslexia, following a diverse group of parents who, frustrated by the lack of support, founded the Literacy Academy Collective. Driven by the stark reality that 1 in 5 people are dyslexic and nearly […]
Lawand is a deaf 5-year-old boy from Iraq whose extraordinary family goes to great lengths to move to England and enroll him at the Royal School for the Deaf Derby. There, he learns British Sign Language (BSL) and begins to blossom. But will the British government allow Lawand to stay and continue his education? Filmmaker […]
US PREMIERE In the village of Kolofata on the Nigerian border, the Cameroonian military has been dispatched to guard villagers from attacks by the religious terrorist group Boko Haram. In this milieu, filmmaker Cyrielle Raingou follows three young children as they navigate lost innocence while growing up in constant fear. Having sparked international outrage in […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE In central Texas, high school students read books banned from the library shelves in hopes of fighting for their return. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center […]
WORLD PREMIERE Blake Zeff is an investigative journalist who gets to the root of the student debt crisis. Following the stories of those most affected, Zeff ultimately zeroes in on the unexpected heart of the problem and exposes the rotten core of the country’s policymaking. Confronting powerful enablers and challenging lies, Loan Wolves is a […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Three children from the impoverished Venezuelan district of Las Brisas channel their pain and joy into music as part of a unique, government-sponsored orchestral music program, El Sistema. For ten years, as her native Venezuela gradually collapsed in the background, director Marianela Maldonado followed the students, developing an intimacy that gives their […]