October 11, 2015

SHORTS: PASSPORT

Take a trip around the world. Visit Havana in Boxeadora (USA, 16 min., Meg Smaker), where Namibia, Cuba’s only female boxer, wants a chance to fight. Hop over to São Paulo in Worlds on Edge (Brazil, 25 min., Thiago B. Mendonça, Renata Jardim), where lives lived side-by-side are worlds apart. Jet to Warsaw for the […]

October 11, 2015

SHORTS: LARGER THAN LIFE

Portraits of everyday characters. Tiger Hood (USA, 7 min., Christopher André Marks) profiles Patrick, an urban golfer who has a mean trashcan handicap. Pink Boy (USA, 15 min., Eric Rockey) shows us that real boys wear tutus. Inventor Dominic wants to make everyone’s life sweeter in The Reinvention of Normal (UK, 8 min., Liam Saint-Pierre). […]

October 11, 2015

SUPER-UNIT(S)

Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a “housing machine” and its main characters are people living in the block and going through important moments of their lives.    

October 9, 2015

MORGAN GREEN SHAVES HER HEAD BACKWARDS

NYC PREMIERE Morgan Green records and manipulates a video of herself shaving her head in an attempt to control her perceived identity.

October 9, 2015

María 95

WORLD PREMIERE A filmmaker unearths discarded home video footage of a Gen-X’er only known as “María.”

October 9, 2015

LE MUR ET L’EAU

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Le Mur et L’Eau (The Water and the Wall) is a movie about the issue of the father, about transmission, childhood and cinema as the art of childhood.

October 9, 2015

CONFESSIONS

NYC PREMIERE A South American woman with a secret position talks about her covert work.

October 9, 2015

WORLDS ON EDGE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A day in the most unequal neighborhood of São Paulo.

October 9, 2015

BOXEADORA

NYC PREMIERE Cuba’s only female boxer seeks to defy Castro’s ban on women in the sport and become the country’s first woman boxer to compete in the Olympics.

October 9, 2015

THE END OF THE WORLD

NYC PREMIERE The End of the World is an intimate, creative and immensely visual documentary where a couple of stories weave into one narrative over the course of one night.