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Alexis Bloom’s blistering documentary THE BIBI FILES is an urgent journalistic exposé based on unseen leaked footage of police interrogations of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as wel…
SWAMP DOGG GETS HIS POOL PAINTED is a wildly entertaining and fittingly unconventional documentary about convention-defying singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg, one …
Amidst the brazen rise of 21st century authoritarianism, few politicians have proven as corrupt and adept at undermining democracy as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. A hero to his country’s Ch…
Little, Big, and Far hones in on the life and work of Karl, an Austrian astronomer, professor and museum consultant, is at a crossroads in life and work. At 70, he finds his jobs at risk and his phys…
In her feature film debut AMOEBA, writer and director Siyou Tan follows 16-year-old Choo as she befriends three rebellious classmates in their elite all-girls Chinese school. Their urge to resist aut…
Cities and their dwellers evolve and grow in ways that are both richly intertwined and beautifully complex. In her gentle, timeless and quietly absorbing debut feature, Love, Brooklyn, director Racha…
Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer. In addition to being a fearless stunt pilot, executing dangerous maneuvers just to blow off a little steam, he bravely took on presidents, popes and the American …
It’s January 2021. The United Kingdom has just entered its 3rd lockdown and all theatres remain closed. For actors Sam Crane and Mark Osterveen, the future looks bleak. As the pandemic drags on Mark …
Easily one of the best films of 2025 JULIE KEEPS QUIET focuses on the star player, Julie, at an elite youth tennis academy. Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. She trains hard, pausing o…
Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect, a new one-hour documentary, explores the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the visionary lawyer and civil rights leader who became the first Black j…
GRIFFIN IN SUMMER, revolves around Griffin Nafly, played by break-out star Everett Blunck, who is the most ambitious playwright of his generation. He's also fourteen-years-old, still living with his …
With a mixture of humor, outrage and passion, MAKE A CIRCLE follows a groupof child care providers determined to change how society values the education of its youngest citizens and their own profess…
It's the day after Christmas in suburban Florida and Billy 5000 (Jack Corbett) and his friends pass the seemingly endless days by slacking, shoplifting, and beatboxing. In between lounging on the bea…
A screw-turning psychological thriller made for the moment, LURKER is the razor-sharp directorial debut from The Bear and Beef writer-producer Alex Russell. When twenty-something Los Angeles retail c…
POOLS dives into the chaotic life of Kennedy, a rebellious college student who has one day to get her life together or face expulsion. Rather than conform, she recruits a misfit crew for a spontaneou…
A surprisingly comic in-depth expose of the massive deforestation required to deliver the nation’s most popular bath tissue brand, CHARMIN WIPES OUT A FOREST is delivering a shocking, yet hopeful mes…
A surprisingly comic in-depth expose of the massive deforestation required to deliver the nation’s most popular bath tissue brand, CHARMIN WIPES OUT A FOREST is delivering a shocking, yet hopeful mes…
Director Joshua Zeman’s intense documentary, CHECKPOINT ZOO focuses on the early days of the Russian-Ukrainian war Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city, as it becomes a warzone. On one side of …
Ebs Burnough made his directorial debut with the documentary “The Capote Tapes". He is back with KEROUAC’S ROAD: THE BEAT OF A NATION - Through the lens of Kerouac’s novel On The Road, the documentar…
Director, Producer, Cinematographer and Writer Mstyslav Chernov drop by to talk about the harrowing, heroic and profoundly moving experience that is his remarkable documentary film, 2000 METERS TO AN…