1971
DIRECTOR Johanna Hamilton
On March 8, 1971, The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, a group of ordinary citizens, breaks into a small FBI office in Pennsylvania, takes every file, and exposes the FBI’s illegal surveillance and intimidation of citizens.
A Girl from Mogadishu
DIRECTOR Mary McGuckian
Based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who, having made the extraordinary journey to escape war-torn Somalia, emerged as one of the world’s foremost international activists against Gender Based Violence and Female Genital Mutilation.
Almost Love
DIRECTOR Mike Doyle
Adam and Marklin’s 5-year relationship has gone from a passionate flame to a simmer, forcing them to reconcile with each other's shortcomings while their friends endlessly search for love in New York City.
Always in Season
DIRECTOR Jacqueline Olive
Always in Season follows the tragedy of African American teenager Lennon Lacy, who in August 2014, was found hanging from a swing set in Bladenboro, North Carolina. His suspicious death was ruled a suicide by law enforcement, but Lennon’s mother, Claudia, her family, and many others believe Lennon was lynched.
American Anarchist
DIRECTOR Charlie Siskel
In 1970, 19-year-old William Powell published “Anarchist Cookbook”—a manifesto and bomb-making manual that sold more than 2 million copies. The film explores the book as an inspiration for decades of violent, anti-government attacks and provides Powell with the opportunity to explore his book's troubling legacy.
An African Election
DIRECTOR Jarreth Merz
A look behind the scenes at the complex political machinery of a third world democracy struggling to legitimise itself to its first world contemporaries, set against the backdrop of the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana.
Born to Fly:
Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
DIRECTOR Catherine Gund
Following choreographer Elizabeth Streb as she pushes the boundaries between action and art. Follow Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight, including breathtaking performances from the London Olympics.
Building a Bridge
DIRECTOR Evan Mascagni, Shannon Post
Named after the book by Father James Martin, Building a Bridge follows a priest on his journey to make the Catholic Church more accepting of the LGBTQ+ community, despite loud opposition from both inside and outside the Church.
Cicada
DIRECTOR Matthew Fifer
Ben, a young bisexual man, comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a closeted man struggling with deep wounds of his own. As summer progresses and their intimacy grows, secrets from the past come to light.
Crime + Punishment
DIRECTOR Stephen Maing
Amidst a landmark class action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, Crime + Punishment intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest.
Cyber-Seniors:
Connecting Generations
DIRECTOR Saffron Cassaday
CYBER-SENIORS began as a high-school project in 2009 and inspired an award-winning documentary film that has been broadcast in 40 countries and screened in over 500 communities worldwide and a nonprofit organization.
Desolation Center
DIRECTOR Stuart Swezey
DESOLATION CENTER is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella, collective experiences that have become key elements of popular culture in the 21st century.
Eating Animals
DIRECTOR Christopher Dillon Quinn
Filmmaker Christopher Quinn examines the environmental, economic and public health consequences of factory farming. Topics include animal rights, pollution and the use of antibiotics and hormones.
Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen
DIRECTOR Daniel Raim
A richly detailed examination of the nuts and bolts of moviemaking, this 50th anniversary celebration of Norman Jewison’s Fiddler on the Roof, narrated by Jeff Goldblum, shows us how the beloved musical made its triumphant, hazardous journey to the screen.
Hit So Hard
DIRECTOR P. David Ebersole
Patty Schemel, the drummer for the band Hole, chronicles the infamous “Live Through This” tour and her own personal struggle with drug addiction, including interviews and previously unseen footage of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
I Dream in Another Language
DIRECTOR Ernesto Contreras
A linguist arrives in a small jungle settlement hoping to record a conversation between two elderly men, the last two remaining speakers of the Zikril language. Unfortunately for him, the men are feuding and haven't spoken to each other in 50 years.
Jobriath A.D.
DIRECTOR Kieran Turner
A profile of Jobriath, perhaps the first openly gay rock star, shows his life and music during a career that ended in 1975. Thirty-five years later, highlights of his life and music have an influence over a new generation of fans.
Manos Sucias
DIRECTOR Josef Kubota Wladyka
A fisherman and a naïve young man begin trafficking drugs up the Pacific coast of Colombia. As they tow a drug-filled torpedo, they are forced to navigate through the war-torn region and the growing tension between them.
Missing in Brooks County
DIRECTOR Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss
Two families travel to Brooks County, Texas, to look for loved ones who went missing after crossing into the United States from Mexico. During their search, they meet vigilante ranchers, human smugglers, activists and Border Patrol agents.
Mission: JOY:
Finding Happiness in Troubled Times
DIRECTOR Louie Psihoyos, Peggy Callahan
A look at the friendship between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the late Archbishop Tutu. The film goes behind the scenes at the Dalai Lama's residence in Dharamsala, where Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama recount stories from their lives.
Mogul Mowgli
DIRECTOR Bassam Tariq
On the brink of his first international tour, Zed, a British Pakistani rapper, decides to fly home to the UK and reconnect with his family when he is suddenly struck down by an autoimmune disease. As his condition worsens and his big breakthrough moment is in danger of vanishing into thin air, Zed descends into a physical and emotional crisis, amplified by vivid hallucinations.
Motherland (Bayang Ina Mo)
DIRECTOR Ramona S. Diaz
The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest countries: the Philippines. There, women face devastating consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative ideologies.
My Name Is Lopez:
The Trini Lopez Documentary
DIRECTOR P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes
Born in Dallas to undocumented Mexican immigrants, Trinidad Trini Lopez III fights his way out of the ghetto with a guitar to become a true American rock ‘n’ roll legend and one of the first Latino rock stars.
Namuli and LEGADO
DIRECTOR Majka Burhardt, Sarah Garlick, Paul Yoo
Namuli is a community-backed film about the spirit of exploration and what happens when a team of rock climbers, biologists, and conservationists set off on an unconventional expedition into one of the world’s least-explored and most-threatened habitats—Mount Namuli, Mozambique.
Nancy
DIRECTOR Christina Choe
Craving connection with others, Nancy creates elaborate identities and hoaxes under pseudonyms on the internet. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing 30 years ago, fact and fiction begin to blur in Nancy’s mind, and she becomes increasingly convinced these strangers are her real parents.
Of Fathers and Sons
DIRECTOR Talal Derki
Talal Derki returns to his homeland, where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family. Sharing the family’s daily life through the lens of his camera provides an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic caliphate.
Red Heaven
DIRECTOR Lauren DeFilippo, Katherine Gorringe
To help humanity get to Mars, four scientists, an engineer and an architect agree to embark on the longest space simulation in US history: 366 days in isolation and confinement on an active volcano in Hawai'i.
See You Then
DIRECTOR Mari Walker
A decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, Kris invites her to dinner to catch up on their complicated lives, relationships, and Kris’ transition. Over a night of intimate and vulnerable conversations, a shocking truth is revealed.
Son of Monarchs
DIRECTOR Alexis Gambis
After the death of his grandmother, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown nestled in the monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán, Mexico. He is forced to confront his past traumas, launching him on a metamorphosis.
The Bad Kids
DIRECTOR Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe
Black Rock Continuation High School, located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, is an alternative school for students at risk of dropping out. They have fallen so far behind in credits withno hope of earning a diploma at a traditional high school. Black rock is their last chance. This observational documentary chronicles one extraordinary principal’s mission to realize these students’ potential.
The Devil We Know
DIRECTOR Stephanie Soechtig
Citizens in West Virginia take on a powerful corporation after they discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic chemical—now found in the blood of 99.7 percent of Americans—into the local drinking water supply.
The Magnitude of All Things
DIRECTOR Jennifer Abbott
When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown, drawing intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary.
The River and the Wall
DIRECTOR Ben Masters
Five friends embark on a 1, 200-mile mountain bike, horse, and canoe expedition down the Rio Grande to document the borderlands before construction of a wall and to explore how it would impact wildlife, immigration, public lands, border security, and landowners.
The Royal Road
DIRECTOR Jenni Olson
A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, and butch identity.
The Story of Looking
DIRECTOR Mark Cousins
As he prepares for surgery to restore his vision, Mark Cousins explores the role that visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives, guiding us through ta kaleidoscope of extraordinary imagery across cultures and eras.
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
DIRECTOR Jennifer M. Kroot
This film celebrates Armistead Maupin, one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to reclaim their lives.
The Way of the Psychonaut:
Stanislav Grof’s Journey of Consciousness
DIRECTOR Susan Hess Logeais
A filmmaker’s life is changed forever when she brings psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer, Stanislav Grof’s extraordinary journey to the screen by immersing herself in his theories.
Through the Night
DIRECTOR Loira Limbal
A portrait of three working N.Y. mothers whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift at a hospital, another holding down three jobs, and a woman who cares for the children of parents with nowhere to turn.
Tower
DIRECTOR Keith Maitland
In early August,1966, a sniper opened fire from the top floor of the University of Texas Tower, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes, killing 16 and wounding three dozen. Archival footage is combined with rotoscopic animation to illustrate the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors.
Trans
DIRECTOR Chris Arnold
Inspired by the incredible story of Dr. Christine McGinn, (herself a trans woman) and her important work as a transgender surgeon, TRANS provides an up-close and very personal vision into the lives, loves, and challenges of a remarkable cast of characters of all ages and from all walks of life.
True Conviction
DIRECTOR Jamie Meltzer
A character-driven documentary about three exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them, who start a new detective agency, rebuild their lives and families, learn to investigate cases, and work to support one another.
Uncle Howard
DIRECTOR Aaron Brookner
Filmmaker Howard Brookner, who worked with Jim Jarmusch, made an acclaimed documentary about William S Burroughs and died of AIDS in 1989 finishing his first Hollywood movie. His body of work is rediscovered 30 years after his death.
Undertow:
Contracorriente
DIRECTOR Javier Fuentes-Léon
Miguel, a Peruvian fisherman torn between his conscience and the morals of his village, has been carrying on an affair with Santiago, who wishes they could live their relationship in the open rather than meeting clandestinely.
Vision Portraits
DIRECTOR Rodney Evans
Acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Evans explores what it means to have vision. As he confronts his own sight loss due to a rare genetic condition, he turns to three blind/visually impaired artists, photographer John Dugdale, dancer Kayla Hamilton, and writer Ryan Knighton, for guidance and insight into their own artistic journeys.
Weekend
DIRECTOR Andrew Haigh
Following Russell and Glen as their one-night stand unexpectedly turns into something far more reaching. Following a Friday night party with his friends, Russell pulls Glen at a club, and, instead of never seeing each other again, the two men spend most of the next day and the following night together.
We Were Here
DIRECTOR David Weissman, Bill Weber
WE WERE HERE is the first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the city's inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, the calamitous epidemic.
Women, War & Peace II
DIRECTOR Eimhear O’Neill, Gini Reticker, Geeta Gandbhir, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
If today’s movements signal a future marked by gender equality, Women, War & Peace II looks to the past to see exactly—and how effectively—women can make that happen. The first two films look at two movements: one in Northern Ireland, the other in Palestine, in the late twentieth century.
Zoua
DIRECTOR Nicolas Wendl
Zoua lives in a tree house on a tiny deserted island with his best pal Clody, a parrot. He is great friends with the animals on the island, and as much as he loves them all, Zoua longs more than anything to be able to play with other children. Relying on his courage and ingenuity, Zoua puts a plan in motion that could get him off the island.