FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
Documentarian Alan Berliner is frequently the star of his movies, but his focus extends beyond his neuroses. Rather than the star of the show, he’s a vessel for bigger ideas and evades the perils of...
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TRUMBO tells the eventful story of the best-known name in the Hollywood Ten, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, with an unsurprising emphasis on the leftist’s misadventures with the House Un-American...
View ArticleKOCH
Former Mayor Ed Koch is the quintessential New Yorker. Still ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, the now 88-year-old Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit,...
View ArticleZIPPER: CONEY ISLAND’S LAST WILD RIDE
Peer under the tent flap of our splendid new civic order, and you’re guaranteed to see a disturbing sight: all the same failed policies of the past, lovingly preserved in formaldehyde. That’s what I...
View ArticleRAFEA: SOLAR MAMA
“The friendly, outspoken Rafea makes an immensely sympathetic protagonist with whom the Arabic-speaking helmers obviously established a high level of trust. It’s lovely to see how she blossoms under...
View ArticleA MAN VANISHES
If A MAN VANISHES— a movie about a disappearance and the transformation of reality into an ever more mercurial mystery, a vertiginous drama and the very stuff of cinema — played at the Cannes Film...
View ArticleAN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY
STF Winter Closing Night Co-presented by the Black Documentary Collective (BDC) Terence Nance dazzled audiences at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival with this bold debut that’s hard to define as fact or...
View ArticleHANDS ON A HARD BODY
STF Spring Pre-Season Special In HANDS ON A HARD BODY, two dozen small-town Texans compete for a brand-new “Hardbody” pickup truck at a local car dealership. The event is a contest of endurance and...
View ArticleNO PLACE ON EARTH
STF Spring Season Opening Night “Let those who think they’ve heard every inspiring tale of survival see this film.” - The Hollywood Reporter NO PLACE ON EARTH brings to light an extra-ordinary true...
View ArticleFREE ANGELA & ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
Few American lives encapsulate the tumult and triumph of the civil rights movement as much as that of author, educator and radical activist Angela Davis. Her wide range of admirers extends to include...
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TO TELL THE TRUTH: A HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (1928-1946)
Documentaries offer a unique encounter between art and actuality. Yet the genre is perpetually misunderstood: its artistry neglected, its truthfulness suspected, its real-world impact overlooked....
View ArticleAILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER
Co-presented by SundanceNow Doc Club Twenty two years ago Nick Broomfield made a film “Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer”. Aileen’s lawyer, her born again Christian mother and the...
View ArticleNAM JUNE PAIK & TV LAB: LICENSE TO CREATE (Work-in-progress)
The “”father of video art”” Nam June Paik inspired the creation of the TV LAB, the experimental division of New York’s public television station WNET/13. Led by Executive Director David Loxton, the TV...
View ArticleSUNSHINE SUPERMAN
A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular –and dangerous– feats of foot-launched...
View ArticleHOT TYPE: 150 YEARS OF THE NATION
Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation is a vivid, inside look at America’s oldest continuously published weekly magazine. Shot over three years in intimate, cinema verite style, the film captures the...
View ArticleTHE WOLFPACK
This screening is SOLD-OUT. Tickets may be released to the rush line at 7:50pm. The six Angulo brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side...
View ArticleMADINA’S DREAM
An unflinching and poetic glimpse into a forgotten war, Madina’s Dream tells the story of rebels and refugees fighting to survive in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. After decades of civil war, South Sudan...
View ArticleTHE POLICE TAPES
“The Police Tapes is a 90 minute groundbreaking, experimental video documentary that revealed the life of a South Bronx police precinct in 1977, one of the most tumultuous years in the history of New...
View ArticleKING GEORGES
Fiery French chef Georges Perrier is on a crusade to keep his 40-year-old landmark restaurant, Le Bec-Fin in Philadelphia, relevant. Times have changed and the culinary world is full of new stars and...
View ArticleAFTER THE DANCE
Acclaimed filmmaker Daisy Asquith tells the very personal story of her mother’s conception after a dance in the 1940s on the remote west coast of Ireland. Her grandmother, compelled to run away to have...
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