Liberty: Mother of Exiles
A look at the history of the Statue of Liberty and the meaning of sculptor Auguste Bartholdi’s creation to people around the world.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Actors: David Copperfield, Diane von Fürstenberg, Stephen Miller, Tony Soraci
Overload: America’s Toxic Love Story
Before starting a family, Soozie Eastman, daughter of an industrial chemical distributor, embarks on a journey to find out the levels of toxins in her body and explores if there…
Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death By Audio
Death By Audio, an underground art and music venue, is forced to close in 2014. The film focuses on the struggles of maintaining a community in the face of Brooklyn…
Bigflo & Oli: Hip Hop Frenzy
Go backstage with French rap duo Bigflo & Oli in this intimate music documentary, then join the superstar siblings as they embark on a major tour.
Ferro
One of the most famous Italian singers opens up about his music and his journey through love and addiction.
A Portrait of Ga
The ‘Ga’ of the title refers to the film maker’s mother. The film gathers together this elderly lady’s everyday actions to offer an abstract insight into her life. Margaret Tait…
Paradise! Paradise!
Kurdwin Ayub captures the intimacy of a trip she made with her father. Family visits alternate with real estate tours searching for an ideal apartment: her father’s will, as he’s…
Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World
Experience an inside look at David Bowie’s incredible influence on music, art and culture via interviews with some of the people who knew him best.
Kelet
Kelet is a twentysomething black trans woman, whose greatest dream is to be on the cover of Vogue magazine. For the Finnish-born and Manchester-raised Kelet, such models as Naomi Campbell…
Jimi Plays Berkeley
This rousing world-famous concert is regarded by critics to be one of Jimi Hendrix’s finest performances ever. Taking footage from two separate performances at the Berkeley Community Theater on May…
Bitter Seeds
A vibrant investigation of the predicament of central Indian cotton farmers, caught up in biotech broker Monsanto’s genetically modified seed program. Refused loans by legitimate banks, the farmers borrow from…
The Super 8 Years
“In re-viewing our Super 8 films, shot between 1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony to the pastimes, lifestyle…
Sunday Beauty Queen
Beneath Hong Kong’s glittering facade, Filipina domestic helpers work in relative anonymity and for near-slave wages. In a beauty pageant like no other, five helpers give themselves makeovers for a…