NYC PREMIERE Beitar Jerusalem Football Club is the most controversial team in Israel. Loyal fans, known as La Familia, take pride in Beitar being the only team in its league that has never fielded an Arab player. In 2012, team owner Arcadi Gaydamak, a Russian-born billionaire with political aspirations, signs two Muslim players from Chechnya. […]
Take a trip around the world. Visit Havana in Boxeadora (USA, 16 min., Meg Smaker), where Namibia, Cuba’s only female boxer, wants a chance to fight. Hop over to São Paulo in Worlds on Edge (Brazil, 25 min., Thiago B. Mendonça, Renata Jardim), where lives lived side-by-side are worlds apart. Jet to Warsaw for the […]
Portraits of everyday characters. Tiger Hood (USA, 7 min., Christopher André Marks) profiles Patrick, an urban golfer who has a mean trashcan handicap. Pink Boy (USA, 15 min., Eric Rockey) shows us that real boys wear tutus. Inventor Dominic wants to make everyone’s life sweeter in The Reinvention of Normal (UK, 8 min., Liam Saint-Pierre). […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A day in the most unequal neighborhood of São Paulo.
NYC PREMIERE Seeking his fortunes in post-World War II America, Dutch immigrant Harry deLeyer became a riding master for an exclusive all-girls boarding school in Long Island. When he bought an unassuming old white Amish plow horse bound for the glue factory, he had no way of knowing his $80 investment in Snowman would not […]
NYC PREMIERE Cuba’s only female boxer seeks to defy Castro’s ban on women in the sport and become the country’s first woman boxer to compete in the Olympics.
NYC PREMIERE Patrick Barr, a.k.a. “Tiger Hood,” has a passion for golf, but lacking the proper equipment, Tiger ‘hits the links’ on the corner of Spring St. and Lafayette, amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City.
Three men discuss their lives working as dunk tank clowns, a job requiring quick wit, a thick skin and stamina, in carnivals across the north-east.
NYC PREMIERE Gus is obsessed with wrestling, perhaps disturbingly so. Ebony is nervous about nailing her audition to a performing arts school. Matt, raised with religion, is flirting with atheism. Graham has to contend with his difficulties reading and a family move to Fiji. They’re all very different preteens, but they have one thing in […]
WORLD PREMIERE Lloyd Swee’ Pea Daniels was a legend on the highly competitive playground basketball courts of NYC, and one of the top college basketball recruits of the late 1980s. Before he was able to play a single game at UNLV, a drug bust ended his college career. But this was far from the end […]