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 With the city’s finances in free fall, and with no support from the state or national government, activist squatters organize and create a vibrant community in 1980s NYC. – DeWitt Davis The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Katie Heiserman and Elana Meyers. All in-person screening venues […]
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 […]
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. […]
NYC PREMIERE A powerful portrait of Acapulco’s cliff divers, revealing the danger and discipline behind their daily work—and the personal and economic pressures that drive each leap from the rocks. – Murtada Elfadl The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-director Irving Serrano. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones […]
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 […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A young Indigenous woman’s struggle against restrictive traditions, charted through her perspective, offers a nuanced portrait of resilience and self-determination. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Pablo García Vizcarra. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center […]
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, […]
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 […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Drug-stricken Gottsunda is an underprivileged suburb of the city of Uppsala, Sweden, which has turned into a ghetto for immigrant families. In this first-person essay film that alternates observational scenes with experimental interludes shot in Super8, director Loran Batti crafts 21 elegant, self-reflexive scenes about his memories, his background, his encounters with […]