Artifishal
Narratives of ecologists and conservationists are pitted against the human tendency to engineer and control in this probing documentary on the lucrative salmon-hatchery industry.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Josh Murphy
Actors: Amy Cordalis, Anne Shaffer, April Bencze, Autumn Peace, Bern Shanks, Bill McMillan, Brett Galyean, Carl Safina, Carlos Garza, Craig Matthews
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
Drawn from a newly discovered archive of 16mm film showing Tom Petty at work on his 1994 record Wildflowers, considered by many including Rolling Stone to be his greatest album…
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.
Nasha Natasha
International pop star Natalia Oreiro returns to western Europe for a non-stop concert tour through seventeen cities around the former USSR, traveling in the Orient Express. In this first person…
Unrest
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s “all in her head.” Determined to live, she…
The Exhibition
An artist faces public outrage as she struggles to mount a large-scale exhibition of paintings based on a police poster of missing women, 26 of whom are found murdered on…
Mountain
An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, that explores humankind’s fascination with high places.
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living…
Australia
How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participates for the first time in…
Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career.
The Secret Life of Lance Letscher
An intimate, psychological portrait of collage artist Lance Letscher.
Agents Unknown
Vietnam 1967: Military intelligence has collapsed, Viet Cong have infiltrated the clandestine American spy network, and the U.S. can’t rely on the South Vietnamese. John Murphy, then an elite adviser,…
I Am Another You
Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society’s rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning of personal freedom –…