Season 3 of this short film series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows artists on their way to becoming masters of their disciplines. The screening will be followed by a Q&A featuring the filmmakers behind the series as well as select artists featured in the films. This film contains the following accessibility options for […]
WORLD PREMIERE The multi-racial, mixed-media artist traces her ancestors’ life stories, and lays bare the intergenerational trauma spawned by the Atlantic Slave Trade. 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 IFC Center and Village […]
NYC PREMIERE A Cuban-American artist renowned for his children’s books and satiric magazine covers creates a vivid political memoir via a graphic novel. 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 IFC Center and Village […]
WORLD PREMIERE A middle-aged anarchist establishes and runs New York’s first free fridge while uniting the community and challenging the system. – 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 IFC Center and […]
NYC PREMIERE A prescient and urgent documentary that shows how climate change can directly lead to conflict; when resources dwindle, battles arise. In Laikipia, Kenya, the ranchers, mostly white descendants of British colonizers, and local nomadic pastoralists find themselves adrift when drought hits the land they share. Tensions that have been kept at bay for […]
WORLD PREMIERE After wildfires force her to leave her home in Oregon, a young filmmaker reconnects with the rituals and the landscapes of her maternal tribe in Himalayan China. In a poetic and contemplative revisiting of her family and her ancestors’ history, director Shasha Li reflects on their animistic traditions while visiting her childhood hometown, […]
A collection of profiles about dynamic people. – Samah Ali This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Village East by AngelikaClosed Captioning for online screenings All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil […]
NYC PREMIERE This haunting documentary zooms in on Black Santas and the gravity of their work during the holiday season. – 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 online screenings All in-person screening venues provide […]
The decision to legalize abortion in the state of New York came down to one person. This is his story. – 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 at IFC Center and Village […]
Lawand is a deaf 5-year-old boy from Iraq whose extraordinary family goes to great lengths to move to England and enroll him at the Royal School for the Deaf Derby. There, he learns British Sign Language (BSL) and begins to blossom. But will the British government allow Lawand to stay and continue his education? Filmmaker […]