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- DirectorLourdes PortilloStarsSandra CisnerosRosa Linda FregosoCherrie Moraga"Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena" is Chicana filmmaker Lourdes Portillo's foray into the legacy of the tejana singer Selena Quintanilla. Portillo interviews family members such as Selena's father and sister, community members, and anonymous fans. She also includes comments by leading Latina writers and scholars such as Sandra Cisneros, Cherrie Moraga, and Rosa Linda Fregoso.
- DirectorMichelle AguilarStarsDomingo MendozaAn introverted Latino farmer finds himself representing a public movement to save a lush garden centered within his cherished community. Over time he finds out firsthand what happens when ethnic livelihoods and migrated farming traditions intersect with the "Urban Growth Machine" and gentrification.
- DirectorNoriaki TsuchimotoStarsKimio KawasakiThe film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics and the difficulties they face: construction obstructing traffic, poor working conditions, numerous accidents, and bad pay.
- DirectorSusana AikinCarlos AparicioExplores the lives of three Latinx transgender prostitutes and crack addicts living in abandoned garbage trucks at a road salt storage facility near lower Manhattan.
- DirectorConnie LittlefieldStarsDuncan BlewettRam DassStanislav GrofResearchers try to establish the medical benefits of LSD.
- DirectorNiall DowningStarsRicky GervaisGarry Shandling
- DirectorLuke CresswellSteve McNicholasFrom the Academy-Award nominated creators of the Broadway show STOMP and the award-winning film Wild Ocean, The Last Reef is an uplifting, inspirational large-format and 3D cinema experience capturing one of nature's more vibrant and diverse wonderlands. Exotic coral reefs, vibrant sea walls in the sub-arctic pulsating with anemones and crustaceans: these biodiversity hot spots are as vital to our lives as the rainforests. Shot on location in Palau, Vancouver Island, French Polynesia, Mexico, and The Bahamas using groundbreaking 3D cinematography, The Last Reef takes us on a global journey to explore the connection of our cities on land with the ocean's complex, parallel world of the coral reefs beneath the sea.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezThough lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa's TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez's tribute to Cuba's sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro's Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle: "This is the story of a ship and of a sports delegation whom the ENEMY tried to stop from participating in the Tenth Central American and Caribbean Games." Alvarez's bristling montage may be put to didactic ends but there's a significant remainder of joy in his celebration of work. Rhetoric is inseparable from rhythm as Alvarez remains ever attentive to the specific manifestations of the body politic.
- DirectorTamás KeményffyStarsImola GáspárJózsef MedvePéter NagyOn the steppe nothing has changed for centuries. The sun is shining with the same ruthless. The sheep are grazing with the same ease. The dogs are barking with the same anger. The value of the human life has remained the same as well. Worthless.
- DirectorRon KraussStarsJoseph FerranteAnnaLynne McCordJordan JamesAMEXICA is the story of a young boy from Mexico who is sold by a human trafficking ring to two con artists from Los Angeles with a get rich scheme. They portray him as their son, extorting money from innocent people by risking the boy's life in staged automobile accidents. Trapped, alone with his captors, and unable to speak for himself, the boy decides to take his fate into his own hands, forever changing the lives of the people around him. Amexica takes a different approach in the exploration of human trafficking, showing the unexpected fallout of human chemistry from the captors and the victim's point of view.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsYasmine Ben AmaraShiraz FradiAhmed Hafiene5-year-old Amira doesn't like Quranic school. In order to avoid going there she finds an unstoppable idea that goes beyond her expectations.
- DirectorFrançois CaillatStarsLeo BersaniGeorges Didi-HubermanDidier EribonCaptures the energy and fierce intellect of the man, introducing us to some of the key elements of his work, while acknowledging--even celebrating--its many contradictions.
- DirectorMia EngbergStarsAnna RydingFarida Khan SällbomAnna is a young vegan and animal rights activist. We follow her both in her everyday life and during a trip to Helsinki, where she participates in a large illegal demonstration against the fur industry.
- DirectorKatarzyna KlimkiewiczDominga SotomayorStarsRosa García HuidobroFrancisca CastilloGabriela AguileraA family gathers at their summer house on an island. Waiting for the last member to join them they wander around absorbed by the overwhelming nature, unaware of the devastating news awaiting them.
- DirectorMikhail KaufmanIn Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.
- DirectorJohn T. BeckDon R. LewisStarsDane AndrewRascal the World's Ugliest DogJane RussellThe camera is cast on the competitors in the annual "Worlds Ugliest Dog Contest" which takes place each summer in Petaluma, CA.
- DirectorBradley BeesleyFor centuries, a unique breed of fishermen has been catching monster catfish with their bare hands in the rivers and lakes of Oklahoma. Today, the tradition of "noodling" still has Okie anglers hooked. This documentary by Bradley Beesley features interviews with hardcore handfishing veterans as well as footage of real noodlers in action. Set against an original musical score by rock band The Flaming Lips, Okie Noodling offers an anecdotal look at a most unusual piece of Midwest American culture.
- DirectorW.D. HoganStarsDaisy RidleyMichael AucoinJill Maria RobinsonAsteroids; where they come from, the risk they pose our planet, and what we can do about the threat of an asteroid impact.
- DirectorChiara BellatiStarsTim MousseauRob NelsonMary-Ann OchotaDocumentary explores the impact on animal life in the area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Planet by two scientists some 30 years after the worst nuclear accident in history.
- DirectorMikaela Krestesen Magnus ArvidsonStarsKathryn BarriouGerald BlackIn the US name, photo and home address of convicted sex offenders is published. But the open sex crime registry has had unexpected consequences. The intention was to create security. Instead fear has increased drastically. Now families with children no longer dare to celebrate Halloween, in fear of pedophiles. In the small community of Anderson in South Carolina is the "trick-or-treat" tradition threatened. Since the registry was introduced in 1996, over 800,000 sex offenders are published. Kathryn Barriou who has two daughters and lives in Anderson keeps track of where sex offenders live in the city. - They're everywhere. That's why we do not go out and celebrate Halloween or "trick-or- treat" anymore. To reassure parents, the city's 450 convicted sex offenders are subject to a curfew over the weekend. Extraordinary patrols to check that the sex offenders stays indoors with entrance lights off. 65 people from the sex crimes registry also becomes locked up in the town hall at 17-21 during Halloween night.
- DirectorMarilyn MansonNicole McDonaldStarsMarilyn MansonMadonna Wayne GacyJohn 5Doppelherz is a short film directed by Marilyn Manson in 2003, using music composed a year prior, in 2002. The name Doppelherz is German for "double-heart".
- DirectorMiao WangChina is a country where dissenting voices have been systematically purged and propaganda efficiently woven into every aspect of life. Art has often served as a political tool, particularly during the Cultural Revolution following Mao's direct orders. This inescapably politically and culturally turbulent atmosphere stipulated a movement of contemporary Chinese artists' diaspora to New York City. "Yellow Ox Mountain" is a short documentary that portrays the artistic endeavors and the personal journeys of two such contemporary Chinese artists, Zhang Hongtu (b. 1943) and Zhang Jian-Jun (b. 1955), whose lives and work span from the post-Cultural Revolution political environment of China to today's thriving Chinese contemporary art community of New York. They were determined to escape from the artistic leash imposed by the Chinese cultural control. Each represents a different personal background and experience of the Cultural Revolution, and very different reactions expressed through their artwork. Yet, there is a shared sense of constant cultural negotiations as they concurrently look back to their traditions and forward to the multifaceted creative influences of New York.
- DirectorPinchas SchatzStarsIzhar AshdotJonathan Bar-GioraJello BiafraA film about Sparks' fans ... But not only for the fans!