NYC PREMIERE From the producers of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence comes this inside look at the experiences of African migrants desperately trying to reach Europe. Abou left Mali over a year ago and has made it as far as Mount Gurugu in northern Morocco, tantalizingly just outside the fortified Spanish […]
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Occupying the former Bell Laboratories, the West Village’s Westbeth Artists Housing has been home to an eclectic community of professional artists since 1970. The film puts the spotlight on three longtime residents as they engage with their craft over the course of a year: 75-year-old contemporary dancer Dudley; 82-year-old poet Ilsa; and 95-year-old […]
NYC PREMIERE Time travel has long been the stuff of science fiction. For Ron Mallett and Rob Niosi, it’s been a lifelong obsession. A childhood tragedy set Mallett, a theoretical physicist, on the course to find a practical way to conquer time, leading to intriguing discoveries. Niosi’s interest also is rooted in his past, as […]
Kirsten Johnson has an esteemed career as a documentary cinematographer working with acclaimed directors such as Laura Poitras, Michael Moore and Kirby Dick. Now she draws upon 20 years of footage to construct this globetrotting visual memoir. Her travels take her to Bosnia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Darfur, Liberia and numerous points across the U.S. Cameraperson […]
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 […]
WORLD PREMIERE A filmmaker unearths discarded home video footage of a Gen-X’er only known as “María.”
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Le Mur et L’Eau (The Water and the Wall) is a movie about the issue of the father, about transmission, childhood and cinema as the art of childhood.
“This film is incredibly moving” – Village Voice Hitchcock/Truffaut draws upon the recordings of the famous week-long conversation where Francois Truffaut interviewed Alfred Hitchcock about his whole career. Director Kent Jones (who also runs the New York Film Festival) expands their conversation with a generous helping of film clips from Vertigo, The Birds, Psycho and […]
For the Angulo brothers’ entire lives, their universe has consisted of a Lower East Side apartment…and the movies. Prohibited from leaving their home, the six siblings instead allow their imaginations to escape by recreating favorite films like Reservoir Dogs and The Dark Knight Rises, transforming everyday objects into elaborate, if crude, props and costumes. After […]
2015 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER NYC PREMIERE Left on Purpose began as a portrait of the life of Mayer Vishner, an antiwar Yippie activist. In the midst of filming, the aging radical informs director Justin Schein that, having had his fill of solitude and depression, he intends instead to make the project about his death – […]