October 18, 2022

RETROGRADE

NYC PREMIERE: After The First Wave, which documented New York’s under-resourced health care workers during the height of the pandemic, Matthew Heineman returns with a film on another crisis of policy, politics, and morality—the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. With unprecedented access inside Camp Sohrab, where the US military intended to train the Afghan […]

October 13, 2022

A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS

NYC PREMIERE A rundown halfway house in Ukraine houses the country’s most vulnerable—children cramped between precarious homes and the foster care system. Simon Lereng Wilmont documents fast-disappearing childhoods amidst ever-worsening political strife with great intimacy and access. As the film records how children suffer and survive violence and abandonment, the “orphanage” becomes a metaphor for […]

October 13, 2022

FREEDOM ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

NYC PREMIERE For his 2015 Oscar-nominated film Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky memorably captured the key moments of the Maidan Revolution in 2013-14 that ushered in pro-democracy political change. In his latest film, his subject is exponentially even more urgent, as Ukraine faces an existential threat when Russia launches its […]

October 13, 2022

OUR MOVIE (NUESTRA PELICULA)

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE An extraordinary and necessary essay film constructed entirely out of a vast archive of news footage from the ‘80s and ‘90s, OUR MOVIE (NUESTRA PELICULA) is a response to the violent history that imprinted itself on the director in her formative years in Colombia. Images of blood spatters, bullet holes, coffins, and Colombians […]

October 13, 2022

THE HAMLET SYNDROME (SYNDROM HAMLETA)

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A group of young Ukrainian actors, each with psychological scars of the war in Donbas, are cast in an experimental theatrical production of Hamlet. As they confront Hamlet’s famous “To be, or not to be” soliloquy, the actors process their own dilemmas, mere months prior to Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of their country. […]

October 13, 2022

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

NYC PREMIERE Oscar-nominated director Dror Moreh (The Gatekeepers) returns with an examination of genocide and US foreign policy in this striking documentary filled with the insights of politicians and diplomats from the past 40 years. With affecting archival footage and extensive interviews, the film centers around former UN Ambassador Samantha Power’s haunting question: Why do […]

October 13, 2022

Surviving the Caliphate

The filmmaker goes to her hometown of Mosul, the former capital of the extremist group ISIS, to understand its indoctrination of children and the ripple effect on Mosul’s once-diverse community. – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer Muna Fadhil. All in-person screening venues provide hearing impaired listening devices upon […]

October 13, 2022

One Kilometer by Foot

NYC PREMIERE Jeanne Gurtat shares her story of saving young Jewish girls at the France/Switzerland border during WWII, navigating the harsh climate and Nazi patrolled streets. – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Rachel Menyuk. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at […]

October 26, 2021

Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis

WORLD PREMIERE Camp Confidential reveals the secret government-sanctioned camp that smuggled Nazis into the United States after World War II, as camp workers come forward for the first time in history.  The November 18th screening will be followed by a Q&A with Directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy. This short is part of the program […]

October 26, 2021

They Won’t Call It Murder

Eerily documenting various police killings in Columbus, Ohio, this documentary captures some of the countless stories of police brutality that will not be classified as murders. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Directors Melissa Gira Grant and Ingrid Raphaël. This short is part of the program SHORTLIST BLOCK #1: UNJUST SYSTEMS Courtesy […]