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Feature Film
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult bat mitzvah student.
Short Film Program
Between puppies, summer camp, and an alternate dimension, these comedic short films remind us to not take life too seriously.
Feature Film
Four young girls prepare for a special daddy-daughter dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, DC, jail.
Feature Film
An exploration of the new wave band Devo, who took their concept of de-evolution from a cult following to near-rock star status, all while preaching urgent social commentary.
Feature Film
Child of a Holocaust survivor, princess by marriage, and founder of a fashion empire, the many faces of fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg are revealed in this captivating and glamorous documentary portrait, featuring interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Marc Jacobs, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and more.
Feature Film
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Feature Film
Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.
Feature Film
The definitive documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno—a groundbreaking generative film that’s different every time it’s shown.
Feature Film
Amid the glamor of Hollywood, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness
Feature Film
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater’s production of ROMEO AND JULIET, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Feature Film
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
Feature Film
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
Short Film Program
Short films on connection, nature, and creativity suitable for children ages 5 to 10.
Feature Film
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Special Presentation
Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust have been running a successful operation by all accounts. However, when Anxiety shows up, they aren't sure how to feel.
Feature Film
In post-Troubles Belfast, three hedonistic Irish language speakers form hip-hop group Kneecap, becoming the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.
Feature Film
In a coming-of-age story set in early ‘90s Cuba, brothers Gustavo and Paco, desperate to keep their punk band together, come up with a remarkable solution.
Feature Film
Futurists Martine and Bina Rothblatt commission Bina48, a humanoid AI, as an early sketch of potential digital consciousness and as a vehicle to explore the couple's quest to be in love forever.
Feature Film
Using a wealth of rarely-seen archives, vocal virtuoso Luther Vandross tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators including Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson, and Roberta Flack.
Feature Film
After a brush with death, world champion surfer Maya Gabeira overcomes mounting challenges as she attempts to break a world record in Portugal.
Feature Film
The unbelievable, yet entirely true, story of an incredible woman — Margaret Moth, a pioneering news camerawoman dedicated to documenting the civilian impact of war, who stared death in the face but refused to look away.
Short Film Program
Stories on personal and collective resilience setting new precedents for generations to come.
Feature Film
Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it's easy to make people afraid, it's hard to destroy their passion for living.
Short Film Program
These shorts are about Nantucket, by Nantucket filmmakers! Come for our annual Teen View film, the story of a famous island disappearance, and a documentary about a surprising hidden discovery.
Special Presentation
To save their career and their relationship in wartime, a Russian couple endeavor to illegally climb the world’s last super skyscraper and perform a daring acrobatic stunt on the spire. Filmed over six years across six countries, SKYWALKERS uses extreme climbing as a metaphor for romantic relationships, ultimately compelling us to choose love on the most epic scale.
Feature Film
Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams brings Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s best-selling book Stamped From the Beginning to the screen, using vivid animations and leading scholars to explore the history of anti-Black racist ideas.
Feature Film
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Special Presentation
Never-before-seen home movies and extraordinary personal archives reveal how Christopher Reeve went from unknown actor to iconic movie star as the ultimate screen superhero. He learned the true meaning of heroism as an activist after suffering a tragic accident that left him quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator to breathe.
Feature Film
Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.
Feature Film
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life—but then they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
Short Film Program
These two short films showcase the impacts of climate change on water both locally and globally while highlighting the need for vocal environmental justice advocates as we continue to face the consequences of the ever-growing climate crisis.
Special Presentation
When 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Short Film Program
A mysterious wire trap, an abandoned baby, and strained family dynamics all lend a hand in amping up the tension in these dramatic short films.
Feature Film
A bipartisan group of US defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise in which they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the US military, in the wake of a contested presidential election.
Feature Film
After her husband's untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together.
Feature Film
Reality Winner, a brilliant, sarcastic, gun-lovin’, vegan CrossFit fanatic, becomes an unconventional whistleblower when she is prosecuted for exposing Russia’s hacking of the 2016 election.