WORLD PREMIERE I Was Here First follows 3 prominent ex-Williamsburg venues, taking a critical look at the future of experimental art in a city whose soaring rental market is driving some of its best artists out in search of more welcoming places.
Tales of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Stonehenge meets a grand cuckoo clock in The Clock of the Long Now (USA, 3 min., Jimmy Goldblum, Adam Weber). The Typist (USA, 8 min., Kristine Stolakis), a gay Korean War Vet, comes to terms with his role in discharging gay soldiers. A mother’s obsession causes her son to grapple […]
NYC PREMIERE The forgotten history of a gay Korean War veteran tasked with writing the military discharges of outed gay seamen.
US PREMIERE Now a yoga teacher in the US, Ella Cojocaru, a former Olympian gymnast, recalls her defection from Bucharest on the eve of the Romanian revolution.
WORLD PREMIERE 15-year-old Carlos saw his best friend shot dead in front of him in Honduras and escaped gang violence by fleeing to his grandmother in the U.S., but his undocumented status leaves him vulnerable to deportation.
WORLD PREMIERE The ‘Satellite Baby’ phenomenon is the term coined to depict children of immigrant parents who were born in the US and sent overseas as a solution to the lack of affordable childcare.
Julio Saucé, an undocumented, Ecuadorian New Yorker, struggles to makes ends meet, all while running 80 miles a week to train for the biggest race in the world, the New York City Marathon.
For the Angulo brothers’ entire lives, their universe has consisted of a Lower East Side apartment…and the movies. Prohibited from leaving their home, the six siblings instead allow their imaginations to escape by recreating favorite films like Reservoir Dogs and The Dark Knight Rises, transforming everyday objects into elaborate, if crude, props and costumes. After […]
WORLD PREMIERE Miriam: Home Delivery offers an inside look at what some consider to be the world’s second-oldest profession: midwifery. As a homebirth midwife, Miriam performs a service once commonplace, but now increasingly rare as the process of childbirth firmly moved to a hospital setting. Juliet Jordan immerses viewers in Miriam’s mission, driving along with […]
US PREMIERE Demolishing stereotypes while avoiding wrecking their cars, the Speed Sisters are the Middle East’s first all-female race-car team. Demonstrating high-octane talent, and the marketing savvy to draw attention to their camera-friendly lineup, this diverse, engaging group competes in Palestine’s makeshift motor sports circuit across the West Bank, overcoming Israeli checkpoints and restrictive societal […]