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Q&As with Steve James
Steve James’s latest is a vivid chronicle of the legal battle between the Manhattan DA’s Office and Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, the only bank that was actually prosecuted in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Q&As with Carrie Fisher*, Alexis Bloom, and Fisher Stevens
Unlike today’s newly minted celebrities, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds are open books. Bright Lights is an affectionate, often hilarious and unexpectedly moving valentine to the mother-daughter act to end all mother-daughter acts.
U.S. Premiere • Q&As with Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya
A colorful, five-years-in-the-making documentary about two itinerant film projectionists in the Central Eastern Indian province of Maharashtra, this is a melancholy but joyful experience, about the wonder of still images coming to life at 24 frames per second.
North American Premiere · Q&As with Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison’s new film is a history in still and moving images charting the transformation of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in fishing camp at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers.
Ends April 27
Q&As with Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker
The filmmaking team of Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker turn their attention to the former East Germany of Epperlein’s childhood, and specifically to the possibility that her father might have been one of the many thousands of citizens recruited as informers by the Stasi.
Q&As with Olatz López Garmendia
Olatz López Garmendia’s film is a sharp, vivid portrait of Cuba as it is right now, on the verge of change, seen through the eyes of citizens who are struggling to live freely.
Q&As with Shimon Dotan
Shimon Dotan’s film takes a good, hard look at the world of the Israeli settlers on the West Bank: the way they live, the worldview that many of them share, and, most crucially, the relaxed attitude of the Israeli government to their presence since the first settlements in the aftermath of the Six-Day War.
Q&As with Sam Pollard, Common, and film team
Two North-to-South quests of the “Freedom Summer” of 1964—one to take part in the Civil Rights movement, the other to find Blues legends Skip James and Son House—converge in Sam Pollard’s inventive, musically and historically rich film.
Q&As with Aaron Brookner and cast and crew members
In a work of love and scholarship, Aaron Brookner breathes new life into the recently discovered archival film and video images in which his adored uncle, Howard Brookner, captured the downtown New York, post-Beat mosaic of writers, filmmakers, performers, and artists during the 1970s and 1980s.
Q&As with Mohamed Siam and crew members
A remarkable, one-of-a-kind film from Egypt, Whose Country? has a point of view that grows in complexity as it proceeds, witnessing a nation’s turmoil from the point of view of a Cairo policeman.
