LE MUR ET L’EAU
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.
Youth
HE NAMED ME MALALA
Malala Yousafzai gained world attention at age 15 when she spoke out for girls’ education from her home in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and survived being shot in the head by Taliban militants. Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) gives a close-up portrait of this strong-willed teenager and her family. The title’s “he” refers to […]
DREAMCATCHER
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, […]
PINK BOY
2015 SHORT DOCUMENTARY WINNER NYC PREMIERE Two butch lesbians raise a 6-year-old boy who likes to wear tutus to school, and have to navigate a tricky terrain living in conservative Florida.
GAYBY BABY
NYC PREMIERE Gus is obsessed with wrestling, perhaps disturbingly so. Ebony is nervous about nailing her audition to a performing arts school. Matt, raised with religion, is flirting with atheism. Graham has to contend with his difficulties reading and a family move to Fiji. They’re all very different preteens, but they have one thing in […]
THE MELTING FAMILY
WORLD PREMIERE Nicole Groton’s candidly personal film chronicles the episodes that led a single nuclear unit to grow exponentially through seven divorces and remarriages, becoming a revealing portrait of modern-day families. Home videos anchor the filmmaker’s memories of a complex childhood, while family members deconstruct 20 years of romances, adulteries, births and unexpected deaths, and […]
ALWAYS TOGETHER
US PREMIERE Petr used to be an urbanite studying computer science, but when he met Simona, they set out for the Czech countryside to pursue dreams of a self-sufficient family outside mainstream society. After 25 years, settled in a caravan on a meadow with no running water or modern conveniences, their nine children struggle with […]
TESTED
WORLD PREMIERE Attending NYC’s elite public schools – Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech – can set students up for future success, but first they have to beat the odds to claim a coveted spot. Each year, middle-school students pin all of their hopes on a single test: the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). […]
P.S. JERUSALEM
US PREMIERE Filmmaker Danae Elon grew up in Jerusalem as the daughter of writer Amos Elon, then relocated to New York City. In this film, she chronicles what happens when she and her husband Philip, a French-Algerian Jew who never lived in Israel, move their family to Jerusalem. Shot over three years, the film captures […]
13 MILLION VOICES
NYC PREMIERE This timely look at US-Cuba relations focuses on the younger Cubans and Cuban Americans who are seeking to bridge the conflicts of their parents’ generation. Covering a span of ten years, the film looks at the buildup to and aftermath of the 2009 Peace Without Borders concert in Havana that assembled some of […]