From digital dreamscapes to real-world sacrifice, a VR friendship becomes a lifeline when a New Yorker journeys to Sweden to donate a kidney—revealing tenderness within a vibrant online world. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Joe Hunting. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. […]
NYC PREMIERE With any and all things crypto being pushed by celebrities, influencers, and politicians alike, actor-turned-author and director Ben McKenzie decides to investigate. Leveraging his celebrity status to gain access to eager prospectors, McKenzie finds himself unraveling the loosely regulated world of cryptocurrency. This skeptical but evenhanded take on the present and future of […]
NYC PREMIERE Many of those who called Boca Chica home don’t anymore. When Elon Musk’s SpaceX decided to build its 50-story rocket in the Texas town, it forced people away. Birds have been stopped in flight, and people who remained can no longer access the beaches they grew up visiting. Julien Elie’s dystopic sci-fi documentary […]
NYC PREMIERE After a number of false starts, Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard and his British navigator and co-pilot Brian Jones embark to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon. Traversing adverse conditions and politically fraught airspace, the duo surges onward through the sky as they battle the elements and the ever-looming threat of disaster. […]
WORLD PREMIERE Physicist David Keith, a leading and controversial figure in solar geoengineering, seeks to test his planetary-cooling technology after decades of research and theorization. His journey unfolds amid fierce debates over the ethical, political, and environmental implications of reflecting sunlight to slow global warming. Activists warn that the technology could delay fossil fuel reductions […]
WORLD PREMIERE Told through striking animation, one woman’s powerful account of surviving a fire in Tehran’s Evin prison captures resistance; an urgent, creative act rooted in the Iranian Woman! Life! Freedom! movement. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Hoda Sobhani. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Blurring performance and reality, an actor posing as an AI-created photographer sharply and self-reflexively exposes fragile truths about identity, labor, and authorship in an increasingly simulated world. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ali Heraize. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon […]
US PREMIERE In a unique melding of memory, language, and technology, a young Greek woman seeks to fill in the gaps in her family history using an innovative AI program. – Karen McMullen The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer/writer Evi Stamou. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE After living in darkness for nearly 40 years, Ian Nichols, a blind Anglican priest, becomes one of the first people in the world to receive an experimental bionic eye implant. At 76 years old, Nichols grapples with the profound change, as the groundbreaking scientific advancement offers hope alongside perplexing technical limitations. Audiences […]
WORLD PREMIERE Astronaut Eileen Collins is the first woman to pilot and command the space shuttle. From her small town beginnings, she went on to smash many glass ceilings at NASA in her career, culminating in four dramatic and dangerous space shuttle missions. Through sensational archival materials and intimate interviews, Hannah Berryman’s nail-biting film considers […]