March 7, 2019 – March 21, 2019
Acid Forest
Directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė
The Curonian Spit, situated on the Baltic Sea on the border between Lithuania and Russia, is one of the world’s …
Afghan Cycles
Directed by Sarah Menzies
Following several young Afghan women who have taken up competitive road cycling and joined the national team, Menzies’ eye-opening film …
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
Previously collaborating on 2006’s Manufactured Landscapes— itself a monumental film about human impact—Baichwal, Burtynsky, and de Pencier now turn their …
Black Mother
Directed by Khalik Allah
Photographer-turned-filmmaker Khalik Allah returns to Jamaica, his mother’s birthplace, to fashion a multifaceted and highly collaged audio-visual portrait of the …
Central Airport THF
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, built in 1923 but heavily renovated during the Nazi period, was one of Europe’s busiest until its …
Infinite Football
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
One of the funniest documentaries of the year, Porumboiu’s (Police Adjective, The Treasure) deceptively simple work follows Laurențiu Ginghină, a …
Los Reyes
Directed by Iván Osnovikoff,, Bettina Perut
In the heart of Santiago, Chile, a nondescript skateboarding park abuts a sleepy residential neighborhood—not an unusual situation in most …
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
Directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky
Twelve years after her award-winning documentary Hear and Now, director Irene Taylor Brodsky once more turns the camera on her …
Our Bodies Our Doctors
Directed by Jan Haaken
Documentarian Jan Haaken’s sixth feature highlights a significant group of individuals in the highly politicized world of women’s reproductive health …
Still Recording
Directed by Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub
The conflict in Syria, under the brutal Assad regime, has raged on for many years with no end in sight; …
The Hidden City
Directed by Victor Moreno
A sensory journey with few parallels this year, Moreno’s (Edificio España) latest investigation into infrastructure plunges us deep underground in …
The Image You Missed
Directed by Donal Foreman
Billed as a “film between Donal Foreman and Arthur McCaig,” The Image You Missed is a powerful excavation of historical …
The Proposal
Directed by Jill Magid
Renowned New York-based artist Jill Magid rose in the art world with both contempt and praise in 2016 for her …
The Silence of Others
Directed by Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo
Under General Francisco Franco’s fascist military dictatorship in Spain, lasting from 1939 until his death in 1975, the Spanish people …
The Trial
Directed by Maria Ramos
The Brazilian right’s 2016 impeachment (or “soft coup”) of President Dilma Rousseff of the democratic-socialist Workers’ Party (PT) remains one …
The Waldheim Waltz
Directed by Ruth Beckermann
Kurt Waldheim, one of Austria’s most notorious and well-known diplomats, was UN Secretary General from 1972 to 1981, eventually running …
Theatre of War
Directed by Lola Arias
Today, the Falklands War of 1982 lives on in the collective memories of the Argentinian and British soldiers who fought …
What Is Democracy?
Directed by Astra Taylor
The question posed by the title of Astra Taylor’s (Examined Life, Zizek!) latest documentary is undoubtedly a huge one with …
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Directed by Arwen Curry
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) is one of America’s finest writers. Early in her career, she sought to break the …
Young Solitude
Directed by Claire Simon
Documentary filmmaker Claire Simon returns for a third time to the subject of French school life in her latest feature …