The Most Dangerous Year
Washington state lawmakers, activists and parents embark on a crusade to protect the civil rights of transgender children.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Vlada Knowlton
Actors: Aidan Key, Asaf Orr, Cyrus Habib, David Ward, Erika Laurentz, Huddle Morris Blakefield, Jennifer Popkin, Jim Ritter, Joe Fain, Johanna Olson-Kennedy
Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema
An insightful look at the history of Hong Kong’s exploitation cinema, from the early days of the Shaw Brothers and such shockers as “Killer Snakes” through to the advent of…
The Volunteers
Filmmaker River Hagg travels to war-torn Syria, in hopes of documenting the war between the YPG and ISIS. He eventually finds himself in a volunteer unit, the only medics on…
The Image Book
Jean-Luc Godard returns with a bracing, beautiful and confrontational essay film. Splicing together classic film clips and newsreel footage, often stretched, saturated and distorted almost beyond recognition, The Image Book…
Yes! Precure 5: Kagami no Kuni no Miracle Daibôken! (Pretty Cure 5)
The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the years since he turned in his gun and badge. Until a crack team…
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his sordid childhood had captivated icons…
Carbon Nation
An optimistic (and witty) discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or at…
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
“Hare Krishna!” is a documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada, the 70-year-old Indian Swami who arrives in America without support or money and ignites a worldwide spiritual phenomenon, now…
Finders Keepers
In this documentary, recovering addict and amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a…
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
The story of Tiny Tim’s improbable rise to stardom is the ultimate fairytale – and so is that of his downfall. For a brief time, the shy and truly unusual…
Tipping the Pain Scale
A feature documentary film following individuals grappling with the current systemic failures of how we have dealt with addiction and their journey to develop and employ new, innovative, and often…
Emptying the Skies
If you want to impress your dining companions in Cyprus, it’s not caviar that you order, but ambelopoulia: a tiny songbird. But as this gripping doc reveals, the cost to…
White Water Black Gold
David Lavallee travels down the Athabasca River to see firsthand how the search for oil threatens rivers and the third-largest watershed in the world. The development of Alberta’s tar sands…