NYC PREMIERE As the daughter of a nightlife impresario, Taylor Stein was a fixture of the New York party scene. But her life took a dramatic turn when she went undercover for the FBI to expose an international baby-trafficking ring. Magnificent Burden follows her journey after adopting a Ukrainian boy with a rare genetic disease. […]
NYC PREMIERE In 1983, Fannie Haughton, a young activist and teacher inured to injustices facing African Americans, sought a haven for her family in Grenada, an island nation that had seen an Afrocentric revolution just four years prior. Not too long after, the island was invaded by the U.S. military, and the dream of a […]
Opening Night Gala screenings at 7:00 & 7:30, filmmakers in person Screening Only added at 9:45 PM ($20) US PREMIERE Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, helped change the way we look at urban living. As we celebrate the centenary of her birth, Citizen Jane focuses on Jacobs’s most […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A fearless adventurer, spy and political powerhouse, Gertrude Bell was a true original and the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. Letters from Baghdad tells the story of this complex woman who helped shape the modern Middle East after World War I in ways that still reverberate today. […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directed by Academy Award® winner Thomas Lennon and shot around the globe by 40 teams of filmmakers, Sacred immerses the viewer in an exploration of spirituality across cultures and religions. From a Buddhist monk’s 1,000-day circumnavigation of a mountain in Japan and Hasidic Jews’ ecstatic celebrations in Uman to Angola Prison inmates […]
NYC PREMIERE Naomi seems like a typical Orthodox Jewish preteen, but she happens to be the strongest girl in the world. Since breaking a powerlifting world record at the age of nine, her fame has spread from her northern New Jersey community around the globe. Supergirl follows Naomi over several years as she remains determined […]
US PREMIERE It’s not easy being the coach of the Ice Queens, Finland’s worst cheerleading team. Determined to start her girls on the path to success, Miia travels from the Arctic Circle to Texas to observe the sport’s world champions and replicate their methods back home. But this is no real-life Bring It On: Miia […]
NYC PREMIERE A fixture of the NYC nightlife and fashion scenes for decades, photographer Rose Hartman has shot some of the most indelible images of pop culture, such as Bianca Jagger atop a white horse at Studio 54. Known for her ability to gain entrance into any social gathering, and possessed of an uncanny eye […]
NYC PREMIERE Presenting rare insight into a little understood but stigmatized condition, Borderline follows the experiences of Regina, a New Yorker living with Borderline Personality Disorder. Subject to extreme emotional shifts and aggressiveness, she has had a history of suicide attempts and trouble maintaining relationships. But she is also witty and self-aware, and desperately wants […]
WORLD PREMIERE This portrait of courage under fire celebrates NYC’s first openly transgender firefighter. For Brooke Guinan, fighting fires runs in her blood – both her father and grandfather served in the FDNY. But as a transgender woman, her path to service has not been without obstacles. Transitioning from male to female in what is […]