WORLDS ON EDGE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A day in the most unequal neighborhood of São Paulo.
International
HE NAMED ME MALALA
Malala Yousafzai gained world attention at age 15 when she spoke out for girls’ education from her home in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and survived being shot in the head by Taliban militants. Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) gives a close-up portrait of this strong-willed teenager and her family. The title’s “he” refers to […]
CARTEL LAND
Unwilling to become a victim of Mexico’s notorious drug cartels, a small-town physician organizes a grassroots civilian defense force to combat the danger and instability they’ve wrought. On the other side of the border, a veteran fearful that the violence will cross into America sets up his own paramilitary group. Director Matthew Heineman embeds himself […]
TIGER TIGER
NYC PREMIERE Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, one of the world’s top big cat biologists, tracks the tigers of the Sundarbans on the border of India and Bangladesh, considered among the most dangerous places on the planet. entering the ancient kingdom of the elusive, endangered Royal Bengal Tiger, he searches for a way the beast might coexist […]
HUNTWATCH
WORLD PREMIERE In Canada, seal hunting was historically considered to be a respectable job until people witnessed the graphic images of the practice for themselves on television. Angry and committed to save the seals, Brian Davies, a charismatic young activist, sets out on a crusade that becomes his life’s mission. Using the power of cinematography, […]
BOXEADORA
NYC PREMIERE Cuba’s only female boxer seeks to defy Castro’s ban on women in the sport and become the country’s first woman boxer to compete in the Olympics.
THE END OF THE WORLD
NYC PREMIERE The End of the World is an intimate, creative and immensely visual documentary where a couple of stories weave into one narrative over the course of one night.
HYENA BOYS
NYC PREMIERE Follow Nigeria’s elusive hyena boys into their secret world of animal magic and voodoo.
THE ABSENTEES
WORLD PREMIERE A story of thousands of Rohingyas–a people persecuted at home and abroad–told through the voice of Raees, a refugee in Dubai.
THE LOOK OF SILENCE
Director Joshua Oppenheimer continues the masterful exploration of Indonesia’s legacy of violence that began with his Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing. This new work stands on its own. The key figure is Adi, whose older brother was murdered five decades ago. As a village optometrist, Adi uses his profession to confront the families of […]