US PREMIERE Take a trip beyond headlines and meet the hyperactive boy who would go on to be a TV mogul and actor, all before becoming the president of Ukraine and the subject of global attention in leading the country’s defense against Russian aggression. With interviews with those who knew Volodymyr Zelensky before he became […]
NYC PREMIERE Nigerian-born British image-maker Misan Harriman has garnered accolades for his powerful photographs of grassroots protests against climate change inaction, Gaza atrocities, George Floyd’s murder, and more. Yet even as his images provoke palpable reactions, as a self-described person of privilege, Harriman shares his doubts about his work’s effectiveness in discussion with such human rights […]
NYC PREMIERE When her father, a farmer and activist, disappeared in 1992, filmmaker Ángela Carabalí was just 7 years old. Decades later, a dream in which he asks Ángela to find him sparks a journey of remembrance and reckoning. Blending family testimony, archival images, and Indigenous rituals, Carabalí confronts the silence of Colombia’s armed conflict. […]
WORLD PREMIERE Amid Gaza’s devastation, an intimate portrait follows a man and his cat, offering a quiet, human glimpse into survival, companionship, and the personal cost of collective violence. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with editor Jeremiah Bailey-Hoover. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request […]
NYC PREMIERE Archival Vietnam War images accompany a guiding 1968 essay to explore the deep connections between militarism at home and abroad—and those who resisted it across generations and borders. – Anita Raswant The first and second screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Christina D. Bartson. All in-person screening venues provide sound […]
NYC PREMIERE An artfully crafted and quietly striking chronicle of Mzia, a former sniper turned residential elevator operator, offers a tragicomic glimpse into modern Georgia through the rhythms of one extraordinary-ordinary life. – Murtada Elfadl The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Marcin Modzelewski. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification […]
NYC PREMIERE Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura gathers extraordinary images of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, showing a unique connection with the people and the time. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Marc Lesser. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC […]
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 […]
As war survivors relive trauma onscreen, their home movies quietly reclaim a lost South Vietnam—challenging a mythology that made them extras in their own history. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Christopher Radcliff. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE When Polish couple Asia and Marek decide to move to a remote cabin in Bialowieza Forest and home-school their children Marysia, Ignacy, and Franek, they imagine an innocent paradise far from the modern world’s problems. The woods are a mysterious, magical place to explore and learn, and the children delight in images […]