Separated from family by a bombing, 14-year-old Mugeni traverses the globe to reunite with her lost relatives and lift up the Banyamulenge people. – Dewitt Davis This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Amy Bench. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and […]
NYC PREMIERE Witness the life and work of Miné Okuba, a legendary Japanese-American artist whose personal style spans borders and time. – Dewitt Davis This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Yuka Murakami. All in-person screening venues provide hearing impaired listening devices upon request with venue management. All guests & staff will […]
NYC PREMIERE Slyly integrating audio descriptions and captions, visual artist Angela Charles shares her story of ‘coming out’ as a blind artist after years of hiding it. – Robert John Torres This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Cinepolis ChelseaDescriptive Audio for in-person screenings at […]
WORLD PREMIERE Seeking to uncover the origins of the rabid homophobia of the conservative church, a gay seminary scholar and a straight activist make a shocking discovery: In 1946 an erroneous translation of the term “homosexual” in the Bible that has been weaponized against the LGBTQIA+ community ever since. Director Rocky Roggio uses her own […]
A stirring animated portrait of the dying Aral Sea, bordering Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and home to one of the worst man-made eco-catastrophes in human history. – Robert John Torres This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Cinepolis Chelsea All in-person screening venues provide hearing impaired […]
NYC PREMIERE An Ibach piano receives a makeover after surviving an international move and playing for four generations of pianists. – Samah Ali This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Rachel Weinberg. This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Cinepolis ChelseaClosed Captioning […]
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 […]
NYC PREMIERE The romantic dalliances between men and women in old world Slovenia are remembered through grandmother Vera in this sexually frank and wildly comic animated tale. – Robert John Torres All in-person screening venues provide hearing impaired listening devices upon request with venue management. All guests & staff will be required to comply with […]
US PREMIERE Folk singer-songwriter turned activist and philanthropist, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s 60-year career includes winning the first Academy Award for an Indigenous person, the first internet album, and an FBI file. Fearless and ahead of her time, a vibrant 80-year-old Buffy —aided by her fellow folk-singing icon Joni Mitchell—tells her own story as an abuse survivor, […]
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: After her 2009 victory at the World Championships, South African runner Caster Semenya’s win came under invasive public scrutiny. When the International Amateur Athletics Federation (now World Athletics) ruled that targeted women with naturally high androgen levels must medically alter their bodies in order to compete, a generation of athletes have their lives […]