Discovery, where you least expect it. Learn the true story behind a failed CIA mission in China Connection: Jerry (USA, 5 min., Vanessa Hope) and a JFK scandal in The Silly Bastard Next to the Bed (USA, 8 min., Scott Calonico). Revisit a pre-Internet cat celebrity in Cherry Pop: The Story of the World’s Fanciest […]
NYC PREMIERE Tucked away on a small organic farm in rural Tennessee lives a man whose personal obsession with salt and cabbage has inspired a movement. Sandorkraut is a character-driven exploration into the world of Sandor Katz, America’s foremost home fermentation revivalist. A native New Yorker, Sandor abandoned a life in politics in the early […]
NYC PREMIERE Andrew & Wendy is a 30 minute documentary film that tells the story of a New York upper West Side couple at a crisis point. Andrew, who is in a coma, is not responding to anything and his prognosis is frighteningly bleak. Wendy’s inspired idea to play Bach for him actually brings him […]
NYC PREMIERE One former city librarian’s fifty-year-long quest to account for the names of those who died in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. This is playing as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIFE + DEATH
USA PREMIERE An intimate insight into the busiest Register House in Scotland. Life, death and love pause and flow through marbled halls and infinite paperwork. Dedicated staff transition from grief to joy throughout the day as the people’s stories resonate with their own lives. This is playing as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIFE + DEATH
An elderly couple who runs a hospice for dying animals calls into question the ethics of pet euthanasia. At the hospice, old animals that would have been euthanized are given a chance to live out the rest of their lives — but they must also endure the trials of aging. Through the struggles of two […]
Beginnings and endings. An obsession with fermentation changes a man’s perception of mortality in SandorKraut (USA, 12 min., Emily Lobsenz & Ann Husaini). A hospice for dying animals explores the ethics of euthanasia in Last Stop in Santa Rosa (USA, 5 min., Elizabeth Lo). Based on a very personal experience, Andrew & Wendy (USA, 30 […]
NYC PREMIERE With no formal education in photography, Kyle Thompson began taking photographs at the age of nineteen after finding interest in nearby abandoned houses. Now, at twenty-two, he is known worldwide for his surreal portraiture. Most recently his work has appeared in galleries in Paris, France. This is his story. This is playing as […]
WORLD PREMIERE Batman, Homer Simpson, a New York Yankees logo – you’re likely to see any of these logos on the yarmulke of a Jewish boy in modern Jewish communities today. “Reverence” dissects the meaning and context behind branded kippahs and the concept of faith in a modern world while exploring the societal and religious […]
WORLD PREMIERE “Making Sense” is a portrait of the rising ‘maker culture’ in Philadelphia as seen and heard through the hands, words, and workshops of some of the city’s most prominent young artisans. Historically known as the “workshop of the world” for its diversity of manufacturing and production enterprises until the late 1970s, Philadelphia is […]