NYC PREMIERE Tadashi Nakamura’s film about his father, pioneering filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura, is both historically resonant and rooted in personal experience. In charting his father’s legacy as a filmmaker and activist, the younger Nakamura confronts his struggles with identity. More than a biopic of a great man, this is a story of a resilient […]
WORLD PREMIERE We Met at Grossinger’s is a dazzling excavation of cultural memory and mythology. Throughout decades of prejudice stifling the integration of Jewish immigrants in America, the Borscht Belt in the Catskills provided an oasis of belonging, and Grossinger’s Resort and Hotel was the crown jewel. The real-life inspiration for the setting of the […]
WORLD PREMIERE Growing up in the US, filmmaker Khoa Ha always knew her grandfather was a famous musician in her native Vietnam. What she didn’t realize was the magnitude of his popularity or the mystique that surrounded his real background. In excavating the story of the musician Y Vân, she not only discovers the man […]
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. […]
WORLD PREMIERE Aliah and Kehau take on the male-dominated practice of building Hawaiian hale, traditional thatched structures—a personal and political effort as they reclaim cultural traditions nearly lost to colonial erasure. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer Aukai Ligairi. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with […]
WORLD PREMIERE Musician, banjo-maker, and founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project Hannah Mayree organizes workshops and performances celebrating the banjo’s Black history. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ebony Marie Bailey. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide […]
NYC PREMIERE After a Ukrainian immigrant’s late-in-life artistic career flourishes in 1970s South Beach, Miami, a young friend battles to preserve his work, culminating in significant posthumous acclaim. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Dennis Scholl and Dia Kontaxis. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Fragmented images of love, activism, and ancestral resilience intertwine with poignant voice messages between the filmmaker and his lover in Brazil, forming a lyrical reflection on memory and survival. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Xavier Marrades. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A filmmaker seeks to reconnect with his roots through his fading ancestral language and discovers hope and resilience within his community, led by a small Navajo radio station. – Karen McMullen The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Malakye Zaayin Tsosie. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification […]
NYC PREMIERE Archival Vietnam War images accompany a guiding 1968 essay to explore the deep connections between militarism at home and abroad—and those who resisted it across generations and borders. – Anita Raswant The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Christina D. Bartson. All in-person screening venues provide sound […]