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Shot over three years in luminous black and white, Gianfranco Rossi's new film unfolds across Naples, a city perched between Vesuvius and the sea, with tremors in the ground, echoes of ancient ruins, and everyday lives steeped in memory and unrest. In shadowed classrooms, makeshift after-school centers; in fire station switchboards, anxious voices; beneath the earth, tomb-robbers, gods, and ghosts. It’s a mosaic of time and history, of ordinary people holding onto meaning under a sky perpetually weighed by clouds.



Winner, Special Jury Prize, Venice International Film Festival.



All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.

An American family watches the horror of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks unfold—only to be plunged into a nightmare when they learn their daughter, sister, and mother, Liat Beinin Atzili, was abducted from her kibbutz, and her husband, Aviv, was killed. Led by her father, Yehuda, the family mounts a tireless campaign for her release. This intimate documentary lays bare their raw grief and unyielding hope—a profound testament to love, endurance, and the human cost of geopolitical violence.



Winner, Berlinale Documentary Award, Berlin International Film Festival.



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Award-winning filmmaker Reid Davenport confronts the 1980s case of Elizabeth Bouvia, a woman with cerebral palsy who unsuccessfully fought for institutional assistance in ending her life. Forty years later, assisted dying is more commonplace in countries like Canada, yet it remains controversial. "You cannot address human suffering by killing people, even if people come forward voluntarily,” says a disability rights advocate in the film. Davenport, who has cerebral palsy himself, seeks to recover Bouvia’s voice, lost to time, and amplify contemporary ones fighting for justice and dignity for the disability community. Winner, U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Reid Davenport and impact producer Emma Alpert.

Audio description headphones are available for this film at in-person screenings. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.

In her stunning directorial debut, Brittany Shyne offers a lyrical and intimate portrait of Black generational farmers in the American South. Seeds delicately captures the fragility of legacy and the profound importance of land ownership. Through rich black-and-white cinematography, Shyne transforms everyday moments—wind in the hair, candy from grandma’s purse, quiet car-window conversations—into poetic vignettes that honor family bonds and resilience rooted deeply in soil and memory. Winner, U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with producers Danielle Varga and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon.

All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.

In our politically polarized era, librarians across the US have found their profession under siege as an unprecedented wave of book banning hits Texas, Florida, and beyond. As the crisis escalates, they join forces as unlikely defenders on the frontlines of democracy. Flanked by students and concerned community members, the librarians join ranks to fight a new threat that draws global parallels, contextualizing the dangerous markings of fascism in a chilling cautionary tale.



Winner, Best Documentary Feature, Dallas International Film Festival



All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.