KITTY AND ELLEN
Best friends and Holocaust survivors Kitty and Ellen reflect on the striking resemblance between the contemporary political climate and their past.
Shorts
KNIFE SKILLS
Cleveland’s Edwins restaurant offers world-class French cuisine to patrons and the opportunity to learn Knife Skills for a staff comprised almost entirely of formerly incarcerated men and women seeking a second chance — much like the restaurant’s founder. Anthony Bourdain calls this film “compelling, funny, heartbreaking and thoroughly human.”
LITTLE FIEL
Little Fiel is a short documentary with stop motion animation about unending civil war. It is based on childhood memories of a renowned Mozambican artist Fiel dos Santos who grew up during the 16-year civil war – another proxy war sustained by conflicting foreign powers. Fiel created eight figures representing his father, mother, five brothers […]
LITTLE POTATO
An autobiographical short about a boy growing up gay in the Soviet Union, his mail-order-bride mom, and their adventurous escape to America.
LOS LECHEROS
The fates of undocumented immigrant workers and Wisconsin’s $43 billion dairy industry are closely intertwined – and both are grappling with their options for survival as fear of ICE raids and deportations under the Trump administration grows.
NANTUCKET
Nantucket recalls the director’s estranged father.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT
Our New President explores the cult of Trump through fake news, showing Russia’s fawning appreciation.
PERSON OF THE FOREST
In the vanishing lowland rainforests of Borneo, research is underway to uncover and understand the unique cultural behaviors in wild orangutans. There, photographer Tim Laman, researcher Cheryl Knott, and young explorer Robert Suro shed new light on the similarities between ourselves and our ancient ancestors, before it’s too late.
PURPLELAND
The viewpoints of two voters on opposing sides are interwoven to make Purpleland.
RAUL
Raul achieved the American Dream while still in his twenties. But then, years later, it unexpectedly fell from his grasp. As his daughter points the camera in his direction, she asks him to reflect on the pursuit of dreams, and seeks his advice about her own.