Bucharest – Year of the Dragon
The documentary reveals the lives of three characters, who come from different social groups, and, at the same time, tells the story of a community that tries to adapt in a country with which has shared a common political past.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Adina Popescu, Iulian Manuel Ghervas
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
Movie stars and members of the film industry make fun of several narrative and visual clichés that are as shocking and aesthetic as they are often truly ridiculous.
Kunta Kinteh Island
This documentary film chronicles the process of renaming Ft. James Island, which was a holding cell for slaves during the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, to Kunta Kinteh Island- after one of…
God Grew Tired of Us
Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees — Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Abul Pach and Panther Bior — as they try to come to terms with the…
A Wild Stream
Chilo and Omar seem to be the only two men on earth. They live on a solitary beach and their constant activity is fishing to survive. Their friendship, surrounded by…
Prefabricated Houses
A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with…
American Meth
Actor Val Kilmer narrates this powerful film exploring the methamphetamine epidemic that’s ravaged blue-collar America. Putting a human face on the problem, filmmaker Justin Hunt reveals the damage being done…
Ay Mariposa
Ay Mariposa tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall. As the…
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…
Kino Eye
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing…
Tickled
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of…
Tales of Masked Men
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Carlos Avila, this documentary program profiles three legendary wrestlers in a creative and imaginative exploration of the colorful, fascinating and mysterious world of lucha libre Mexican…