WORLD PREMIERE A visually immersive diary of a young girl who dreams of life outside of the Zaatari refugee camp. – 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 […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE A student helps a filmmaker with his nature doc, and confronts him with the unexpected footage she discovers in his archive. – Anita Raswant The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC […]
NEW YORK PREMIERE When a 1990 brain injury left 26-year-old Florida resident Terri Schiavo in a persistent vegetative state for over a decade, her husband and family disagreed about her fate, creating a painful rift. As Schiavo ultimately became the center of a pivotal “right to die” debate that captured the world’s attention, the filmmakers […]
WORLD PREMIERE One of the world’s youngest elite rock climbers, Ashima Shiraishi spent her formative years breaking numerous age-based climbing milestones, spurred on by her number one fan and coach, her father, Poppo a retired Butoh dancer and avant-garde performer with no formal climbing experience. When these New Yorkers travel to South Africa to conquer […]
Writer Hanna Asefaw uses a model of the council housing flat her Eritrean family lived in in Oslo to memorialize its diverse community, which was ultimately destroyed by the building’s privatization. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones […]
“You are now entering my universe. I am the lens, the subject, the authority.” So begins the narration of filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt in this stunning debut that traces her coming of age in New York City. As the child of a Dominican father and a Venezuelan mother, Beba crosses through multiple cultures as she […]
Women in front of and behind the camera share their stories with the world. (Total Running Time: 94 MIN) Favorite Daughter | Director: Dana ReillySet within the close confines of a Tribeca apartment, three generations of women = comically shelter-in-place together during the COVID-19 pandemic. (USA, 19 MIN) In Bloom | Director: Ashley DavidsonTwo women […]
Unfolding in real time by focusing on the experience of one women on trial for murder, the film is a layered examination of gender, the American south, domestic and sexual violence and the failures of our criminal justice system. – Samah Ali Courtesy of Netflix All in-person screening venues provide hearing impaired listening devices upon […]
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 […]
US PREMIERE Students across the African continent come together for an annual contest of oratory skills and knowledge of the law. The film follows diverse teams of law students as they prepare for this prestigious, high-stakes mock trial, the African Human Rights Moot Competition. In her feature film debut, former lawyer-turned-filmmaker Shameela Seedat gives us […]