NYC PREMIERE A small yet determined group of Alabama grandmothers organizes a grassroots movement to challenge the state’s largest power company’s environmental abuses. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer/editor Brennan Robideaux. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A Polynesian community struggles to survive rising sea levels while Europeans casually observe the plight from their living rooms. An exploration of growing desensitization and helplessness around the climate crisis. – Karen McMullen The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Dylan Werkman. All in-person screening venues provide sound […]
NYC PREMIERE As a jazz legend’s memory fades, his soulmate discovers their timeless connection lives on through the music that shaped their love, transforming his songs into an enduring bond. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Jyllian Gunther. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon […]
US PREMIERE The danger and the tedium of a young Venezuelan migrant’s constant movement to avoid detection. An empathetic, restrained, and breathtaking exploration of statelessness, from physical tolls to uncertain futures. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer Françoise Nieto-Fong. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones […]
NYC PREMIERE Venus fly trap poachers face felony charges for trying to make a living, while huge real-estate developers go unpunished. – DeWitt Davis The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Mads Engel and Joe Purtell. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. […]
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE A couple revisits Super 8 footage of a formative road trip, exploring the beauty, fear, and vulnerability of falling in love amid Western Canada’s vast landscapes. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Evan Luchkow. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with […]
NYC PREMIERE When a chemical company opens a new plastics factory that threatens to pollute the area, a Louisiana grandmother and educator-turned-activist leads members of her parish to fight back. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Sam Eilertsen and Nate Birnbaum. The Second screening will be following […]
WORLD PREMIERE What if you lived in a coastal city never knowing that the ocean hid a deadly poison? That’s exactly what LA residents did for decades, until a scientist alerted LA Times journalist Rosanna Xia to a problem ignored by officials for years. They discover that as many as half a million barrels of […]
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 […]
NY PREMIERE An immersive and poetic film centered on iconic shaman Davi Kopenawa and the Yanomami community of Watoriki in the Brazilian rainforest. Based on the book co-authored by Davi Kopenawa and anthropologist Bruce Albert, the film invites us to participate in the sacred ritual of Reahu, and challenges all of us existing in a […]