NYC PREMIERE Tucked away on a small organic farm in rural Tennessee lives a man whose personal obsession with salt and cabbage has inspired a movement. Sandorkraut is a character-driven exploration into the world of Sandor Katz, America’s foremost home fermentation revivalist. A native New Yorker, Sandor abandoned a life in politics in the early […]
NYC PREMIERE One former city librarian’s fifty-year-long quest to account for the names of those who died in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. This is playing as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIFE + DEATH
USA PREMIERE An intimate insight into the busiest Register House in Scotland. Life, death and love pause and flow through marbled halls and infinite paperwork. Dedicated staff transition from grief to joy throughout the day as the people’s stories resonate with their own lives. This is playing as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIFE + DEATH
An elderly couple who runs a hospice for dying animals calls into question the ethics of pet euthanasia. At the hospice, old animals that would have been euthanized are given a chance to live out the rest of their lives — but they must also endure the trials of aging. Through the struggles of two […]
NORTH AMERICAN Shortly after World War II, over 1,000 paintings were found in a cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a young Jewish woman named Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life story in a unique creation called: ‘Life? Or Theater? – A tri color Operetta.’ This is playing as part of […]
With roots in the eponymous, impoverished Missouri town, filmmakers and cousins Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos bring a sensitive touch to this richly observed and sublimely shot portrait of teens Andrew, Harley and Appachey—genuine, multifaceted subjects not typically represented on screen except as stereotypes. Immersing the audience in their environment and in their […]
In the final weeks of the Vietnam War, with the invasion of Saigon imminent, the White House ordered the evacuation of U.S. citizens—but their South Vietnamese allies flooded onto embassy grounds seeking help. Rory Kennedy captures the dramatic withdrawal from multiple perspectives, skillfully interweaving little-seen archival footage with reflective interviews with participants who were on […]
Winner of the SXSW grand jury prize, The Great Invisible examines the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its impact on fishermen, oilmen and survivors. Director Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths) brings a nuanced understanding of the American South to the film, paying attention to ecosystems of nature and society. […]
Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman’s breathtaking film chronicles the dangerous but life- affirming work performed by the Human Rights Watch Emergency Team, or E-Team, a compelling group of intrepid investigators willing to enter hostile territories to document crimes against humanity that might otherwise go unreported. Allowing outside filmmakers to follow them for the first time, […]
In early 2013, Oscar®-nominated director Laura Poitras started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. That June, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many […]