WORLD PREMIERE Civil rights lawyer Armen Merjian takes on NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani over housing rights for people living with HIV. – DeWitt Davis The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer Amelia Hanibelsz. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can […]
NYC PREMIERE In a slice of NYC history, Dan and Toby Talbot transform a struggling Upper West Side theater into a landmark arthouse cinema, showing how passion can shape community and leave a lasting legacy. – Murtada Elfadl The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Sergio Maza. All in-person […]
WORLD PREMIERE Family owners of the Petal Pusher flower shop, part of Penn Station’s subterranean commerce community since the 1970s, reflect. – DeWitt Davis The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director David Abel. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can […]
WORLD PREMIERE Street performers Adrian Jusdanis and Alan Zavodsky draw crowds with their dynamic sound and high energy. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Emma Keatley. The second screening will be followed by a Q&A with film participant Adrian Jusdanis. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification […]
NYC PREMIERE Liza Donnelly gathers a witty crew of fellow New Yorker women cartoonists to swap doodles, discuss their passion and process, and share a peek into the iconic magazine’s history. – Karen McMullen The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/ film participant Liza Donnelly and director Kathleen Hughes. […]
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, […]
WORLD PREMIERE Just north of New York City, Sing Sing Correctional Facility is one of the country’s most notorious prisons. Veteran crime reporter Dan Slepian forges a bond with Jon-Adrian Velazquez, a man serving a 25-to-life sentence in the facility, that leads him on a two-decade-long journey for justice. Directed by Dawn Porter, this multi-part […]
WORLD PREMIERE After decades in prison, Todd Scott, Chad Campbell, and Carlos Rebollo navigate the complex bureaucracy of the parole system and deal with its psychological toll. All three men, incarcerated as teens, wrestle with the weight of their crimes, questioning how they can appropriately express their deep remorse to a parole board that will […]
WORLD PREMIERE “It’s not every day that you meet an old Nazi.” So begins American historian Jonathan Petropoulos, recalling the day in 1998 when he met Bruno Lohse, who was Hermann Göring’s art agent in Paris during World War II. In this riveting account, Petropoulos details Lohse’s role in stealing countless masterpieces from prominent French […]
These shorts capture the magic of the places that bring us together. – Samah Ali The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers: All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also […]