WORLD PREMIERE A young mother sets her fears aside to move her family to a former resort town adjacent to an old nuclear facility. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Bofei Wan. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center […]
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 […]
WORLD PREMIERE After killing her abusive husband in self-defense, Tracy McCarter must fight for her freedom against a justice system that fails to protect victims of domestic violence. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Meron Tebeje. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with […]
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 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 […]
WORLD PREMIERE In September 2024, spiritual advisor Jeff Hood travels to Oklahoma to fight for the stay of an incarcerated man’s execution—and to provide spiritual guidance if the state carries it out. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Joel Fendelman. The second screening will be followed by […]
As war survivors relive trauma onscreen, their home movies quietly reclaim a lost South Vietnam—challenging a mythology that made them extras in their own history. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Christopher Radcliff. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also […]
NYC PREMIERE Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck has done it again. In this rousing, elegant documentary, Peck opens the life and works of a seminal artist of the 20th century, South African photographer Ernest Cole. Denouncing apartheid with the publication of his 1967 photo book House of Bondage, Cole then lived in exile in the US, […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE When Polish couple Asia and Marek decide to move to a remote cabin in Bialowieza Forest and home-school their children Marysia, Ignacy, and Franek, they imagine an innocent paradise far from the modern world’s problems. The woods are a mysterious, magical place to explore and learn, and the children delight in images […]