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The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom
Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam |
In The Sun Behind the Clouds, Tibetan filmmaker, Tenzing Sonam, and his partner, Ritu Sarin, take a uniquely Tibetan perspective on the trials and tribulations of the Dalai Lama and his people as they continue their struggle for freedom in the face of determined suppression by one of the world’s biggest and most powerful nations. More... |
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The Oath
Laura Poitras |
From the director of the Oscar-nominated My Country, My Country, The Oath is a spectacularly gripping documentary that unspools like a great political thriller. It’s the crosscut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay Prison and the U.S. Supreme Court. More... |
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Harlan - In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Felix Moeller |
A searing portrait of one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers: Veit Harlan, director of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Süss. An eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present, one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.
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Examined Life
Astra Taylor |
Filmmaker Astra Taylor (ZIZEK!) accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. More... |
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Afghan Star
Havana Marking |
After 30 years of Taliban and wartime rule, pop culture is creeping back into Afghanistan in the form of Afghan Star, an enormously popular American Idol–type contest. Filmmaker Havana Marking follows the dramatic stories of four of the contestants. More... |
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Le Combat dans l’île
Alain Cavalier |
A hidden gem of the French New Wave, Alain Cavalier’s Le Combat dans l’île is as coolly modern as it is tensely gripping. Filled with thrilling plot twists, jazzy gun battles and stormy betrayals, this scintillating neo-noir unfolds against a backdrop of 1960s political turmoil. More... |
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Up The Yangtze
Yung Chang |
The award-winning documentary in which the Three Gorges Dam forms an unsettling backdrop to a richly detailed narrative of life inside contemporary China. More... |
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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
Amei Wallach, Marion Cajori |
LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE is a film journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. More... |
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A Town Called Panic
Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier |
The first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A Town Called Panic follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three toy figures who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events... More... |
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Kike Like Me
Jamie Kastner |
Provocative, mischievous and difficult to dismiss, filmmaker Jamie Kastner's
first-person docu-essay dissects identity politics by exploring the question,
“What does it mean to be perceived as Jewish?” More... |
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Trouble the Water
Carl Deal, Tia Lessin |
Academy Award nominee and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tell the story of an aspiring rap artist and her husband who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. More... |
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The Horse Boy
Michel Orion Scott, Rupert Isaacson |
How far would you travel to heal your child? An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing. More... |
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