10th Anniversary screening. In the enthralling, and often surprisingly funny, Cannes award-winning Sisters in Law, two fierce and feisty women challenge tradition to make a difference in Cameroon law. Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and judge Beatrice Ntuba give long-silenced women their day in court, empowering them to cast off the roles of victims and demand justice. […]
Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a “housing machine” and its main characters are people living in the block and going through important moments of their lives.
NYC PREMIERE Morgan Green records and manipulates a video of herself shaving her head in an attempt to control her perceived identity.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Le Mur et L’Eau (The Water and the Wall) is a movie about the issue of the father, about transmission, childhood and cinema as the art of childhood.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A day in the most unequal neighborhood of São Paulo.
A candid portrait of a woman’s redemptive fight against sexual exploitation, Kim Longinotto’s masterful observational film follows Brenda, a charismatic former drug addict and prostitute who, having turned her life around, has made it her mission to give hope to women and girls in need. Through her Dreamcatcher Foundation, she reaches out to sex workers, […]
NYC PREMIERE In recent decades, mainstream media has portrayed pit bulls as vicious killers, with several states even banning the breed. When Atlanta Falcons’ star quarterback Michael Vick’s brutal dog-fighting ring was exposed, this stigma resulted in calls for euthanasia of the pit bulls involved by PETA and the Humane Society. The Champions intimately chronicles […]
NYC PREMIERE Cuba’s only female boxer seeks to defy Castro’s ban on women in the sport and become the country’s first woman boxer to compete in the Olympics.
NYC PREMIERE The End of the World is an intimate, creative and immensely visual documentary where a couple of stories weave into one narrative over the course of one night.
NYC PREMIERE Follow Nigeria’s elusive hyena boys into their secret world of animal magic and voodoo.