After more than four decades, America’s finest French restaurant, Philadelphia’s Le Bec Fin, is struggling to keep up with changing tastes. Its tempestuous chef/owner Georges Perrier remains ambivalent: should he sell the restaurant and finally retire, or partner with his talented protégé, Nicholas Elmi (an eventual Top Chef winner), in an attempt to reinvigorate its […]
NYC PREMIERE A long-overdue portrait of an iconoclastic performer, Feelings are Facts profiles the incomparable Yvonne Rainer. In the 1960s, within a scant few years as a dancer and choreographer, she radically changed the art form through her influential work at the Judson Dance Theater. When she shifted to film in the 1970s, she continued […]
NYC PREMIERE Despite her Tony-winning performance in Broadway’s Grey Gardens, 79-year- old veteran character actor Mary Louise Wilson finds few new opportunities on the stage, so she decides to try teaching acting back in her native New Orleans. As Wilson finds her footing in this new role, she reflects on her long career, the sacrifices […]
NYC PREMIERE An elderly couple in the remote mountains of Nepal take a three-day journey to reclaim their long-lost sight. This film is followed by WILHEMINA’S WAR
WORLD PREMIERE This is an intimate film about Emilio a 90 year old cobbler living in Barcelona. He reflects on his life, the history of his country and introduces us to his craft. When the crisis hit Spain his son Daniel decides to come and work for him. This is a story about a father and a […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Dante DeMille and Hank Iken are two octogenarian volunteers who muse on life and death as they restore old aircraft in a forgotten hangar of Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Airfield. This is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: LOST + FOUND
NYC PREMIERE Leading United States legal expert on China, and the first American lawyer there after normalization of US-China relations, Jerome Alan Cohen, tells the harrowing tale of how and why his China studies prepared him to rescue his college classmate, Jack Downey, from ‘behind enemy lines’ after Downey’s CIA mission to infiltrate communist China […]
USA PREMIERE An intimate insight into the busiest Register House in Scotland. Life, death and love pause and flow through marbled halls and infinite paperwork. Dedicated staff transition from grief to joy throughout the day as the people’s stories resonate with their own lives. This is playing as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIFE + DEATH
A close-up look at the whimsical life of 86-year-old interior designer Eleanor Ambos. Since her arrival to the U.S. at age 20, Eleanor’s strong will and keen eye have transformed her design business into a multi-million dollar empire. Yet at home, this eccentric tycoon’s lifestyle is astonishingly simple. Furnishing the homes of diplomats, remodeling dilapidated […]
Celebrating mentorship as much as music, Alan Hicks’s inspirational and poignant film explores the common bonds between a 92-year-old jazz legend and his 23-year-old protégé. In his storied career, Clark Terry has played with luminaries like Count Basie and Duke Ellington, and counts Quincy Jones and Miles Davis among his past pupils. Now, as he […]