NYC PREMIERE As many remember, 1999 presented a strange existential crisis in which we didn’t know what the next year and the new millennium would bring. Well-traveled on the festival circuit, this archival time capsule captures the unprecedented frenzy of Y2K just as the internet begins to transform the world. – Bedatri Choudhury The first […]
WORLD PREMIERE In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate why Black neighborhoods all over the country were “rioting” in protest. He was blindsided by the findings, which blamed the government for race-exclusive policies that fomented poverty, housing crises, unemployment, and discrimination. The film commemorates the landmark report and hints at […]
A groundbreaking all-archival documentary film about Lady Bird Johnson, one of the most influential and least understood first ladies. Beautifully honed from 123 hours of Lady Bird’s intimate audio diary, the film brings her to life and reveals her as a shrewd political strategist who preserved natural resources for the American people through her policies […]
US PREMIERE Through a thick layer of snow in the forests of Russia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. With no help from official channels, he traces the dead and rescues their memory […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE This fun caper movie explores the true story behind the rumors that, at the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government rigged the most influential art exhibition, the Venice Biennale. With an extraordinary cast of experts and insiders from the art world and extensive archival footage, the film reveals the plans […]
WORLD PREMIERE In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for a “reverse Great Migration” of African Americans from the North back to the South to upend today’s political power structures while reclaiming the land and culture they left behind. South […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE Mother and daughter, 6th generation Chinese Americans, travel to where their ancestor labored on the transcontinental railroad, and learn about themselves and their relationship in the process. – 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 […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE As his story unfolds, disco icon Richie Weeks returns to the spotlight, relaying a struggle to cement his legacy and share his music the way it was meant to be heard. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace ship that was bombed by operatives of the French government, in New Zealand in 1985, while heading to a protest against nuclear testing, tragically taking the life of photographer Fernando Pereira. Edward McGurn’s enlightening and exciting documentary uncovers a tangled tale of nuclear weapons, geopolitical coverups, […]
WORLD PREMIERE The Electric Circus nightclub was a drug-fueled, multicultural oasis of dance and creativity in 1960’s NYC, frequented by icons like Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, and Sly & the Family Stone. Against a hallucinogenic backdrop of hippies, Hell’s Angels, and circus performers, club founders Stan Freeman and Jerry Brandt share memories of the club’s rise […]