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Jury selection for Best Documentary Feature OVERSEAS, directed by Sung-a Yoon Director Sung-a Yoon receives a $3,000 cas (…)
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107 min
Directed By Alonso Ruizpalacios
Alonso Ruizpalacios’ inventive, genre-bending documentary takes us deep into the Mexican police force. Following famil (…)
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93 min
Directed By Shaunak Sen
For decades, Muslim brothers Saud and Nadeem have tirelessly devoted their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting bl (…)
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88 min
New York Premiere
Directed By Tony Benna
Unexpected, irreverent, and absurdly funny, ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT is a wildly life-affirming film about death. When André, a brilliant idiot, learns he''s dying from a disease he could have detected with a colonoscopy, he teams up with director Tony Benna to document his final journey. André approaches mortality with his trademark...
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74 min
East Coast Premiere
Directed By Ken August Meyer
In 1933, as German modern artists were increasingly persecuted by the rising Nazi Party, painter Paul Klee escaped to Switzerland, where a mysterious disease wreaked havoc on his body and profoundly changed his artwork. After being diagnosed with the same rare and life-threatening disease, now known as systemic scleroderma,…
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97 min
Directed By Jessica Kingdon
Following her Best Documentary win at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, alumni filmmaker Jessica Kingdon (COMMODITY C (…)
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121 min
East Coast Premiere
Directed By Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo
First-time co-directors Christopher Sharp and journalist Moses Bwayo tell the story of Bobi Wine, the musician-turned-po (…)
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84 min
Directed By Jed Rothstein
In the midst of the 2008 market crash, investors on the fringes of the financial world feverishly sought new alternative (…)
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83 min
Directed By Jesse Sweet
50 miles north of New York City lies the town of Monroe, where one of the fastest-growing Hasidic communities in the cou (…)
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109 min
Directed By Alexander Nanau
After a deadly fire in a Bucharest nightclub killed dozens, Romania’s government pledged that the 100+ citizens left i (…)
