WORLD PREMIERE With the conservative movement conspiring to take away healthcare and bodily autonomy from all, “Daily Show” co-creator Lizz Winstead brings us on the road with Abortion Access Front and her merry band of activists and comedians as they crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinics and providers. An urgent and humorous account of […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE This short follows two Black, trans activists run for office to protect their community in the deep South state of Louisiana. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE Two men work alongside each other in the Central African Republic, the first a local laborer struggling to meet everyday needs and the other his boss, a Chinese expatriate construction manager far from home trying to improve his economic standing. While never wavering away from its two subjects, this striking documentary effectively […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE Zoom into the iconic voting center in Maricopa County, Arizona during the midst of a tumultuous media storm surrounding their election practices. – 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:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings […]
NYC PREMIERE DEFIANT is a defining survey of the Ukrainian experience during the first 18 months of the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion. With Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as a central figure, DEFIANT tracks the Ukrainian fighting spirit in both diplomatic circles and on the front lines as ordinary civilian life is turned upside down by […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE Parwiz reflects on the principles he was raised with as a boy in Iran, and hopes his dreams will inspire a new generation. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue […]
This film follows Fatima, Hamed, and Yasser as they leave Afghanistan, resettle in the U.S., and try to create a new home, whilst fearing for the safety of their family and friends back home. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues […]
Russian political candidate Alexei Navalny helped galvanize opposition to Vladimir Putin in mass street demonstrations. Then in August 2020, Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent and almost died on a flight from Siberia. Filmmaker Daniel Roher follows Navalny in real time as he teams with investigative journalists to identify his would-be killers and crack […]
NYC PREMIERE: After The First Wave, which documented New York’s under-resourced health care workers during the height of the pandemic, Matthew Heineman returns with a film on another crisis of policy, politics, and morality—the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. With unprecedented access inside Camp Sohrab, where the US military intended to train the Afghan […]
NYC PREMIERE Rage. Anger. Shock. Fear. As the nation watched in disbelief, throngs of rioters descended on the capitol, and the people on the ground, mired in chaos, suddenly found their lives in jeopardy. From Nancy Pelosi, to Liz Cheney, to Steven Sund, D.C. Police Chief, more than 50 senators, representatives, staffers and police officers […]