2016 VIEWFINDERS COMPETITION WINNER NYC PREMIERE In the remote Faroe Islands, an archipelago located halfway between Norway and Iceland, inhabitants have been in tune with their environment for millennia. With a rugged landscape not suited for farming, they have relied on the sea for their survival, enjoying a traditional diet of seabirds, pilot whales and […]
True innovation. What Lies Beneath the Sky (USA, 9 min., Vladimir de Fontenay) turns NYC into a canvas for a meditative city portrait in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Morgan Green Shaves Her Head Backwards (USA, 3 min., Morgan Green), records it and sets it to a score. A filmmaker discovers María 95 (USA, 14 […]
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 […]
Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a “housing machine” and its main characters are people living in the block and going through important moments of their lives.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Le Mur et L’Eau (The Water and the Wall) is a movie about the issue of the father, about transmission, childhood and cinema as the art of childhood.
NYC PREMIERE A South American woman with a secret position talks about her covert work.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A day in the most unequal neighborhood of São Paulo.
Unwilling to become a victim of Mexico’s notorious drug cartels, a small-town physician organizes a grassroots civilian defense force to combat the danger and instability they’ve wrought. On the other side of the border, a veteran fearful that the violence will cross into America sets up his own paramilitary group. Director Matthew Heineman embeds himself […]
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 The End of the World is an intimate, creative and immensely visual documentary where a couple of stories weave into one narrative over the course of one night.