US PREMIERE MySpace launched the world into a new digital age: online, but no longer anonymous. With the power to connect friends and the entire world, the platform bred internet stars, shot up fledgling showbiz careers, and supercharged Barack Obama’s campaign to the White House. Spanning everything from Tom to templates, and the infamous Top […]
WORLD PREMIERE How does one remember a dictatorship experienced as a child? After years in Spain, filmmaker Carolina Astudillo gathers friends who, like her, grew up amid Augusto Pinochet’s violent regime, when families learned that survival could depend on secrecy and silence. The women revisit fragmentary memories and consider how those early experiences shaped who […]
WORLD PREMIERE In the 1980s, Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart each cultivate vast viewerships of particular constituencies of Christian fundamentalism. When Bakker’s empire is threatened by revelations of scandal, Falwell and Swaggart sense the potential business advantages of taking the moralistic high ground—and the power they can wield by collaborating with the Republican […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A new “gold rush” shifts Europe’s focus to the large lithium reserves of Bolivia. Using breathtaking cinematography, filmmaker Jens Schanze observes, over six years, the complex web of European colonialism’s extractive nature and the fight of Bolivia’s laborers toward autonomy and justice. Through multiple perspectives and sawing through layers of bureaucracy, Schanze […]
NYC PREMIERE In this provocatively honest film, Kenya-Jade Pinto examines how surveillance systems and military technology control the global refugee crisis and decide who gets rescued and who’s allowed to die. The film goes behind the daily headlines of border crossings to show how algorithms control human mobility. With a pulse-pounding rhythm and an astute […]
WORLD PREMIERE If you’re going to stage a revolution, you’re going to need journalists and filmmakers to tell that story well. That’s what a group of fiery activists thought when they came together to form the Newsreel in the 1960s. Recognizing that mainstream media could never be the mouthpiece of seismic change, these filmmakers took […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE November 17, 1980, is a watershed date for American feminism. It was the day when thousands of women surrounded the Pentagon in protest of Ronald Reagan’s war policies. Filmmaker Bojina Panayotova reconstructs that forgotten history through a fiery archival collage that brings together songs, accounts, footage, and testimonies. With sound, images, and […]
NYC PREMIERE The Corvette-driving, verbally gifted Marxist Ken Cockrel was a powerhouse lawyer in 1970s Detroit, a city roiled by segregation, racial unrest, and police brutality. In a series of high-profile cases involving the Black community, the radical yet rational Ken took the legal lead and won decisive victories. Through vivid archival footage and personal […]
NYC PREMIERE Carlos “Taso” Zenón was a Puerto Rican fisherman and freedom fighter who organized against the US military’s occupation of his hometown, Vieques. He mounted a steadfast community resistance against the mighty American military system. From their small fishing boats, they fought for the freedom and autonomy of Puerto Ricans. Bringing together unseen archival […]
WORLD PREMIERE When Cuban artists organize an independent biennial outside state institutions, their creative ambitions collide with censorship, surveillance, and repression. Making and exhibiting art becomes inseparable from political resistance, revealing a form of organized dissent rarely seen in Cuba’s recent history. Rich in historical context and personal testimony, Hugo Perez’s film offers a compelling […]