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2020

  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always

    — by Eliza Hittman

    Written and directed by Eliza Hittman, the film is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) embark on a brave, fraught journey across state lines to New York City.

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  • A Thousand Cuts

    — by Ramona S. Diaz

    Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Journalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy.

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2019

  • Atlantics | Atlantique

    — by Mati Diop

    Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread.

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  • Bull

    — by Annie Silverstein

    Kris, a headstrong teenager from a rural neighborhood on the outskirts of Houston, is destined to follow her mother to the state penitentiary, until she’s forced to work for her equally willful neighbor, Abe, an aging bullfighter struggling to keep a foothold in the rodeo circuit. Drawing consolation from an unlikely bond, Kris and Abe both attempt to right their paths, before it’s too late.

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  • Hail Satan?

    — by Penny Lane

    A look at the intersection of religion and activism, tracing the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. The Temple is calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation’s soul. But are they for real?

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  • I’m No Longer Here | Ya No Estoy Aqui

    — by Fernando Frias de la Parra

    In the mountains of Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days listening to slowed-down cumbia and attending dance parties, where they show off their outfits, hairstyles and gang alliances. After a mix-up with a local cartel their leader is forced to migrate to Queens, where he quickly finds himself wanting to return home

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  • Jawline

    — by Liza Mandelup

    Jawline follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee.

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  • Midnight Family

    — by Luke Lorentzen

    In Mexico City, the government operates fewer than 45 emergency ambulances for a population of 9 million. This has spawned an underground industry of for-profit ambulances often run by people with little or no training or certification. An exception in this ethically fraught, cutthroat industry, the Ochoa family struggles to keep their financial needs from jeopardizing the people in their care.

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  • Midnight Traveler

    — by Hassan Fazili

    When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.

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  • Over The Rainbow

    — by Jeffrey Peixoto

    Active Scientologists and other practitioners of new religions are investigated in a mesmerizing exploration of belief.

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  • Selah and the Spades

    — by Tayarisha Poe

    Five factions run the underground life of the prestigious Haldwell boarding school. At the head of the most powerful faction – THE SPADES – sits Selah Summers. By turns charming and callous, she chooses whom to keep close and whom to cut loose, walking the fine line between being feared and loved.

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  • The Assistant

    — by Kitty Green

    The Assistant follows one day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul.

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  • The Edge of Democracy

    — by Petra Costa

    A cautionary tale for these times of democratic crisis, the film blends the personal and political to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

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  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco

    — by Joe Talbot

    Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.

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2018

  • Black Mother

    — by Khalik Allah

    Part film, part baptism, in Black Mother director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica.

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  • Chained For Life

    — by Aaron Schimberg

    A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur’s English-language debut. Through pitch-black satire, Chained for Life examines the treatment of disability on screen and on set.

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  • Generation Wealth

    — by Lauren Greenfield

    Lauren Greenfield’s postcard from the edge of the American Empire captures a portrait of a materialistic, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously photographic journey, memoir, and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom–bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of late-stage capitalism, narcissism and greed.

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  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    — by RaMell Ross

    Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South— trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race.

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  • MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.

    — by Steve Loveridge

    Drawn from a never-before-seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.

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  • Monsters and Men

    — by Reinaldo Marcus Green

    This interwoven narrative explores the aftermath of a police killing of a black man through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

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  • Night Comes On

    — by Jordana Spiro

    Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, Angel embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister to avenge her mother’s death.

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  • Phantom Cowboys

    — by Daniel Patrick Carbone

    For teenagers in three American industrial towns, adolescent dreams intersect with the realities of adulthood. An exploration of youth in transition, spanning nearly a decade.

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  • Shirkers

    — by Sandi Tan

    In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore’s first road movie with her enigmatic American mentor, Georges—who then absconded with all the footage. The 16mm film is recovered 20 years later, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges’ vanishing footprints—and her own.

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  • Sorry to Bother You

    — by Boots Riley

    In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.

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  • We The Animals

    — by Jeremiah Zagar

    Us three, us brothers, us kings. Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.

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  • Wild Nights With Emily

    — by Madeleine Olnek

    Emily Dickinson’s persona, popularized since her death, became that of a reclusive spinster—a delicate wallflower, too sensitive for this world. This film explores her vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years—most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.

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2017

  • All That Passes By Through a Window That Doesn’t Open

    — by Martin DiCicco

    A journey by rail, laborers reflect upon desire and regret, floating through a Eurasian expanse, striving to fill their days and dreams, as much as their pockets.

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  • Beach Rats

    — by Eliza Hittman

    An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.

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  • Brimstone & Glory

    — by Viktor Jakovleski

    Ritual, danger and the absolute beauty of fireworks — the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico.

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  • Casting JonBenet

    — by Kitty Green

    An artful exploration of the legacy of the world’s most sensational child-murder case, the unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.

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  • Death of a Child

    — by Frida and Lasse Barkfors

    The fear of something happening to one’s child follows the joy of becoming a parent, mercilessly. The greatest fear is being somehow responsible of the accident yourself. And yet, this forceful guilt is something that some parents over the world have to live with for the rest of their lives.

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  • Dina

    — by Daniel Sickles, Antonio Santini

    An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional nonfiction love story.

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  • Last Men in Aleppo

    — by Feras Fayyad

    After five years of war in Syria, the remaining citizens of Aleppo are readying themselves for a siege. Through the volunteers from The White Helmets we experience the daily life, death and struggle in the streets of the city. They fight for sanity where war has become the norm.

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  • Quest

    — by Jonathan Olshefski

    Filmed with vérité intimacy, Quest is a portrait of a North Philadelphia family and the creative sanctuary offered by their home music studio. The family’s ten-year journey is a testament to love, healing, and hope.

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  • Strong Island

    — by Yance Ford

    A documentary about the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother nearly 20 years ago, and how the collision of silence, fear and the judiciary allowed his killer to go free.

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  • The Cage Fighter

    — by Jeff Unay

    A blue-collar family man breaks the promise he’d made years ago to never fight again. Now forty, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything — his marriage, his family, his financial security — to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.

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  • The Florida Project

    — by Sean Baker

    The Florida Project revolves around a precocious 6-year-old and her ragtag group of close friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility, and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

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  • The Force

    — by Peter Nicks

    A cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, MO, and an explosive scandal.

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  • The Reagan Show

    — by Pacho Velez & Sierra Pettengill

    Told solely through archival footage, and set against the backdrop of the Cold War, The Reagan Show captures the pageantry, absurdity, and charisma of a prolific actor’s defining role: Leader of the Free World.

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  • This is Congo

    — by Daniel McCabe

    In the midst of the most recent cycle of conflict in the DRC, four Congolese share their perspectives on the complicated terrain that has shaped their lives.

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  • Whose Streets

    — by Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis

    The story of the Ferguson uprising told by the people who lived it.

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2016

  • Certain Women

    — by Kelly Reichardt

    The lives of three women intersect in small town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.

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  • Do Not Resist

    — by Craig Atkinson

    Do Not Resist is an urgent and powerful exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States.

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  • I Am Not Your Negro

    — by Raoul Peck

    Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished — a radical narration about race in America, using only the writer’s original words.

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  • LoveTrue

    — by Alma Har'el

    A look into the opposing realities of the “True Love” fantasy and an inquiry into whether our view of love changes as we grow older. Through sessions of Psychodrama and Improvisation three couples explore their hopes, memories and love lives.

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  • Notes on Blindness

    — by Peter Middleton, James Spinney

    After losing his sight, John Hull knew that if he could not understand blindness it would destroy him. In 1983 he began keeping an audio diary.

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  • Spa Night

    — by Andrew Ahn

    Los Angeles’ Korean spas serve as meeting place and bridge between past and future for generations of immigrant families; Spa Night explores one Korean-American family’s dreams and realities as each struggles with the overlap of personal desire, disillusionment and sense of tradition.

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  • The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

    — by Brett Story

    A film about the prison from the places we least expect to find it.

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  • When Two Worlds Collide

    — by Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel

    A contemporary apocalyptic story of a man, of a people, and of the fate of one of our planet’s most valuable natural resources, the Amazonian Rainforest.

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2015

  • Best of Enemies

    — by Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville

    The ten nationally televised 1968 debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley defined a new era of public discourse, demarcating the moment that TV’s political ambition shifted from fiction to spectacle.

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  • Five Nights in Maine

    — by Maris Curran

    Unexpected tragedy brings an African-American widower face-to-face with his estranged mother-in-law in rural Maine.

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  • Mediterranea

    — by Jonas Carpignano

    Searching for a better life, Ayiva makes the perilous journey across the Sahara and Mediterranean. Once in Italy, the need to earn money for his family is challenged by the harsh conditions and intolerance faced in his newly claimed home.

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  • Presenting Princess Shaw

    — by Ido Haar

    Samantha could never even imagine that someone is listening to her on the other side of the world. Kutiman is inspired by her songs, and he’s about to increase the numbers who like her music in ways that she can’t even imagine.

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  • Salero

    — by Mike Plunkett

    When the future arrives to Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, one of the most secluded places on the planet, the destiny of this ancient salt flat is unearthed and one young salt gatherer becomes the last link between the old world and the new.

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  • Sembene!

    — by Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman

    The freedom fighter who used stories as a weapon: meet Ousmane Sembene, the father of African Cinema.

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  • Songs My Brothers Taught Me

    — by Chloé Zhao

    Set on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Songs My Brothers Taught Me explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.

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  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl

    — by Marielle Heller

    Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

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  • The Fits

    — by Anna Rose Holmer

    Tomboy Toni lands a spot on the Lionesses Dance Team, but when members of the group begin to experience a series of mysterious spasms — “the fits” — she fears how far she must go to fit in.

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  • The Witch

    — by Robert Eggers

    New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest — within which lurks an unknown evil.

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2014

  • Citizenfour

    — by Laura Poitras

    Citizenfour is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.

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  • Dukhtar

    — by Afia Nathaniel

    In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her 10 year-old-daughter flee their home on the day of the child’s marriage to a tribal leader, triggering a deadly hunt for mother and child.

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  • E-Team

    — by Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman

    A chronicle of the intense and courageous work of three investigators working to expose international human rights abuses.

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  • Elephant's Dream

    — by Kristof Bilsen

    This story of public sector workers in a rail station, post office and the only fire station in Kinshasa offers poetic and compassionate insight into a country in transition, and lives lived beyond chaos.

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  • Evolution of a Criminal

    — by Darius Clark Monroe

    A bank-robber-turned-filmmaker returns home to examine how his actions affected his family and victims.

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  • Fishing Without Nets

    — by Cutter Hodierne

    The mesmerizing and sobering story of the pirates from the Somali point of view. First-time feature filmmaker Cutter Hodierne combines the epic cinematic vision of a glorious action-thriller with intimate, textured qualities of an art film, humanizing the pirates by bringing us inside their moral dilemmas and gut-wrenching struggles.

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  • Gabriel

    — by Lou Howe

    A troubled young man searches obsessively for his first love, risking everything in an increasingly desperate pursuit.

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  • Marmato

    — by Mark Grieco

    The future of a peaceful gold-mining town in rural Colombia is being gambled away by a billionaire mining mogul.

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  • Pervert Park

    — by Frida and Lasse Barkfors

    Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse — and the silence surrounding it — can be broken.

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  • Point and Shoot

    — by Marshall Curry

    In 2007, Matt VanDyke set off on a 35,000 mile motorcycle adventure that eventually led him to Libya. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, he participated in and documented the war.

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  • Rich Hill

    — by Tracy Droz Tragos, Andrew Droz Palermo

    Rich Hill vividly captures the struggle of families isolated in a dying Missouri town — and their unexpected source of hope.

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  • The Great Invisible

    — by Margaret Brown

    When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in 2010, 11 workers were killed and the ensuing spill was an environmental disaster for the Gulf of Mexico. The Great Invisible follows up on the long aftermath of the devastating accident, talking to survivors, the families of those killed, and the residents of communities still affected by the spill.

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  • War Story

    — by Mark Jackson

    A war photographer returning from the conflict in Libya, where she was held captive and brutalized, retreats to a small town in Sicily.

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  • Watchers of the Sky

    — by Edet Belzberg

    Traversing time and continents to explore genocide and the world’s response.

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  • Whiplash

    — by Damien Chazelle

    A talented young jazz drummer enters an elite conservatory and strives for perfection under the instruction of the school’s ruthless band conductor.

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  • Zero Motivation

    — by Talya Lavie

    A dark comedy following the power struggles of three female secretaries at a remote army base in the Israeli desert during the course of one year.

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2013

  • A Teacher

    — by Hannah Fidell

    A popular young teacher in a wealthy suburban Texas high school has an affair with one of her students. Her life begins to unravel as the relationship comes to an end.

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  • Before You Know It

    — by PJ Raval

    Several LGBTQ seniors navigate the adventures, challenges and surprises of their “golden years.”

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  • Blue Caprice

    — by Alexandre Moors

    Abandoned boy is lured to U.S. and drawn into the shadow of a dangerous father figure. Inspired by real life events that led to the 2002 Beltway Sniper case.

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  • Bluebird

    — by Lance Edmands

    In the frozen woods of an isolated Maine logging town, one woman’s tragic mistake shatters the balance of the community, resulting in profound and unexpected consequences.

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  • Citizen Koch

    — by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

    A story about money, power and democracy in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2010 decision to treat corporations as citizens.

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  • Concussion

    — by Stacie Passon

    After suffering an injury, Abby’s life changes forever. She needs more than what her life is offering — she needs to become Eleanor.

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  • Cutie and the Boxer

    — by Zachary Heinzerling

    A reflection on love, sacrifice, and the creative spirit, this candid New York tale explores the chaotic forty year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and artist Noriko Shinohara.

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  • Fruitvale Station

    — by Ryan Coogler

    The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

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  • God Loves Uganda

    — by Roger Ross Williams

    A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting “sexual immorality” and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law.

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  • Inside Out - The People’s Art Project

    — by Alastair Siddons

    The French artist JR wins the TED Prize 2011. He gives his wish, and in turn, his art back to the people, and creates a global participatory art project called Inside Out.

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  • It Felt Like Love

    — by Eliza Hittman

    During an uneventful summer in Brooklyn, lonely Lila develops an unhealthy fixation on an older thug. Deluded and awkward in her romantic pursuit, she soon finds herself in a dangerously vulnerable situation.

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  • Mother of George

    — by Andrew Dosunmu

    A woman torn between her African culture and new life in America struggles to give her husband the son that will carry on his family’s legacy.

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  • Narco Cultura

    — by Shaul Schwarz

    An explosive look at drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War.

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  • Our Nixon

    — by Penny Lane

    Newly uncovered Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon’s closest aides — and fellow Watergate conspirators — offer an intimate and surprising new glimpse into his presidency.

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  • Remote Area Medical

    — by Jeff Reichert

    For three days in April 2012, nearly 2000 Americans waited in the parking lot of Bristol, Tennessee’s massive NASCAR speedway to receive free medical, dental, and vision care provided by the volunteer organization Remote Area Medical, the pioneer of no-cost pop-up health care clinics.

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  • Sunlight Jr.

    — by Laurie Collyer

    Down and out lovers, Melissa and Richie, get pregnant and become homeless at the same time in this social realist story in the vein of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed.

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  • Teenage

    — by Matt Wolf

    Teenagers didn’t always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.

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  • The Cold Lands

    — by Tom Gilroy

    After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.

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  • The Kill Team

    — by Dan Krauss

    The Kill Team is the story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan who attempted to alert the Army to the murders of unarmed civilians, and who then finds himself implicated in one of the killings and charged with first degree murder.

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  • These Birds Walk

    — by Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq

    A portrait of contemporary Pakistan is created through the eyes of a runaway boy and an ambulance driver who call a dying humanitarian and his struggling organization home.

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  • This Is Martin Bonner

    — by Chad Hartigan

    Martin Bonner has just moved to Reno for a new job in prison rehabilitation. Starting over at age 58, he struggles to adapt until an unlikely friendship with an ex-con blossoms, helping him confront the problems he left behind.

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  • Wolf | Lupu

    — by Bogdan Mustata

    Romania: In this surreal tale, a young boy’s dearest wish is realized when his absent father is quite literally reborn and joins the family once again.

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2012

  • Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

    — by Alison Klayman

    Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media.

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  • An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

    — by Terence Nance

    An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and animation to tell the story of a relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman as it teeters between the platonic and romantic.

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  • At Any Price

    — by Ramin Bahrani

    A farming family’s business is threatened by an unexpected crisis, further testing the relationship between a father and his rebellious son.

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  • Beasts of the Southern Wild

    — by Benh Zeitlin

    The waters are rising and everything south of the levee is going under, in this tale of a six-year-old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy, Wink, at the edge of the world.

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  • BURN

    — by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez

    Detroit firefighters risk their lives every day to save a city and an American dream that many have written off as dead.

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  • Call Me Kuchu

    — by Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall

    As state-sanctioned homophobia reaches new heights in Uganda, David Kato, the country’s first openly gay man, will stop at nothing to liberate the LGBT community.

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  • Code of the West

    — by Rebecca Richman Cohen

    Reflecting the controversies enveloping the marijuana industry throughout the United States, Montana braces itself to become the first state to repeal a medical marijuana law.

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  • Compliance

    — by Craig Zobel

    When a prank caller convinces a fast food restaurant manager to interrogate an innocent young employee, no one is left unscathed. Based on true events.

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  • Delta Boys

    — by Andrew Berends

    Explores the untold stories of the Niger Delta and the Niger Delta militancy.

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  • Fill The Void

    — by Rama Burshtein

    A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv’s ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi’s word are absolute.

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  • I Am Not A Hipster

    — by Destin Cretton

    Based in San Diego’s indie music and art scene, I Am Not a Hipster features original song performances and explores what it means to be creative in the face of tragedy.

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  • Informant

    — by Jamie Meltzer

    Informant examines Brandon Darby, a radical activist turned FBI informant who has been both vilified and deified, but never entirely understood.

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  • Keep the Lights On

    — by Ira Sachs

    An honest and compassionate account of a ten-year relationship between two men in New York City, and the compulsions that drove them apart.

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  • Laura

    — by Fellipe Barbosa

    The story of an illegal immigrant who lives a glamorous life, and yet has to cheat total poverty on an everyday basis.

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  • Leviathan

    — by Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel

    In the very waters where Melville’s Pequod gave chase to Moby Dick, leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen cameras — tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker — it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors.

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  • Planet of Snail

    — by Seung-Jun Yi

    A blind-deaf man who once thought he could do nothing in this world starts exploring the world and learning to love his life in his own way.

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  • Reportero

    — by Bernardo Ruiz

    There are ebbs and flows to the news cycle, but what is the deeper story of a place? That is the question tugging at a veteran reporter and photojournalist on the Mexican border.

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  • Tchoupitoulas

    — by Bill Ross, Turner Ross

    Three young brothers’ immersive journey into the sensory wonders of the New Orleans night.

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  • The Queen of Versailles

    — by Lauren Greenfield

    The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family who tries to build the biggest house in America and confronts economic crisis.

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  • The World Before Her

    — by Nisha Pahuja

    A provocative portrait exploring the choices and contradictions facing young women in India today.

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  • Words of Witness

    — by Mai Iskander

    As the call for social justice in Cairo snowballs into an all out demand for regime change, 22 year-old Heba, greenhorn journalist and democratic activist, is at the heart of the events shaping Egypt’s future.

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2011

  • Bully

    — by Lee Hirsch

    A year in the life of America’s bullying crisis that offers an intimate look at how bullying has touched the lives of five kids and their families.

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  • Circumstance

    — by Maryam Keshavarz

    A coming-of-age story that cracks open the hidden, underground world of Iranian youth culture, where a young woman’s most electrifying passions can become the most dangerous of secrets.

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  • Dragonslayer

    — by Tristan Patterson

    The transmissions of a lost kid, falling in love, in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty.

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  • Here

    — by Braden King

    Measurement and orientation break down in a dramatic, landscape-obsessed road movie that chronicles a brief but intense romantic relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer and an expatriate Armenian photographer who impulsively decide to travel together into uncharted territory — both literally and metaphorically.

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  • If A Tree Falls

    — by Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman

    The remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation and radicalization of one of its members.

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  • Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws

    — by Emily James

    For a year the filmmaker submerged herself in documenting the secret activities of environmental direct action activists in the UK. The result is a behind the scenes portrait of a community of actively engaged citizens who aren’t prepared to sit back and allow the destruction of the world’s ecosystems and climate. The individuals in the film have picked up the mantle of civil disobedience and direct action — chaining themselves to aeroplanes, super-gluing themselves to bank trading floors, and attacking coal power stations en-masse. Their adventures will entertain, illuminate and inspire.

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  • Kinyarwanda

    — by Alrick Brown

    During the Rwandan genocide some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. These are their stories.

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  • On The Ice

    — by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

    On the snow-covered Arctic tundra, at the top of the world in Barrow, Alaska, two Inuit teenagers try to get away with murder.

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  • Pariah

    — by Dee Rees

    A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities to avoid rejection from friends and family.

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  • Return

    — by Liza Johnson

    Back from a tour of duty, Kelli slowly realizes that her everyday life doesn’t resemble the one she left. Can she regain her place in the kind of life she’s been fighting to protect?

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  • The Forgiveness of Blood

    — by Joshua Marston

    The lives of a teenage boy and his younger sister are thrown into turmoil after a killing in a dispute over land draws their northern Albanian family into a blood feud.

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  • The Patron Saints

    — by Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky

    A disquieting and hyperrealistic glimpse into life at a nursing home.

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  • Yelling to the Sky

    — by Victoria Mahoney

    As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O’Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.

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2010

  • Gasland

    — by Josh Fox

    When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination.

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  • Look, Stranger

    — by Arielle Javitch

    A psychological portrait of a woman traveling home in a war-torn world.

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  • October Country

    — by Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher

    An American family struggles for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse.

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  • Two Gates of Sleep

    — by Alistair Banks Griffin

    When Jack’s mother turns up dead at the edge of a field near his rural home, he and his brother set out on an arduous journey to fulfill her last wish.

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  • War Don Don

    — by Rebecca Richman Cohen

    Through the trial of a rebel leader in Sierra Leone, a nation faces its wartime past. Now international justice is on trial for the world to see.

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2009

  • A Small Act

    — by Jennifer Arnold

    A young Kenyan’s life is changed dramatically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger.

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  • Entre Nos

    — by Paola Mendoza, Gloria La Morte

    After Antonio abandons Mariana in New York, she must find a way to provide for her children emotionally and financially in a strange an unfamiliar world.

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  • Girl Model

    — by David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

    Follows a complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S. within the modeling industry.

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2007

  • A Jihad For Love

    — by Parvez Sharma

    Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.

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