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Using 1960s-era home movies of the filmmaker as well as quotes and events from her life, director Annette Apitz examines her complicated relationship with her mother.

Football and feminism collide in this documentary that follows former NFL cheerleaders battling the league to end wage theft and illegal employment practices that have persisted for 50 years.

Summer of 1994. The streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop and wafting with marijuana, and Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is spending his last summer before college selling dope, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, and crushing ...

At The Wake of his best friend's father, a loser and a little boy form an unlikely friendship.

A socially-conscious kid from the burbs invades a Texas hotel chain's wake-up caller room and rouses a group of conventioneers with left-wing messages. As the situation turns into a crime scene, and neither the police nor his mother can stop him...

Gotti-obsessed and hopelessly in love, Thomas (Boardwalk Empire’s Vincent Piazza) and Rose (Academy Award®–winner Patricia Arquette) are looking to fit in to a neighborhood where mob-ties equal social currency. Amidst events surrounding the 1992 t...

Since Homer's time, artists have struggled with the challenge of how to describe the experience of war. Called up for service in Iraq, several members of the National Guard were given digital video cameras. This astonishing film, edited from their...

In the aftermath of her mother's death, a young girl makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to stop her father's downward spiral into depression and alcoholism.

Screening as part of Shorts: Tightrope

A veteran painter makes his film debut about a subject close to his heart -- the horrors endured by immigrants arriving in Europe from the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. Interweaving dramatized episodes with his own paintings, news foota...

Spirited bride-to-be Michal is dumped by her fiancé a month before their wedding. Undeterred, she keeps her wedding date, leaving it to fate to provide a suitable groom. With invitations sent, venue booked, and the clock counting down to the big d...

A stand-up comic (Sasheer Zamata) who's been struggling to get over her ex (Tone Bell) finds herself instead awkwardly third-wheeling her way through a weekend getaway alongside him and his new girlfriend (DeWanda Wise) in this warm, wry comedy.

In 2004, writer/director Zachary Iscol fought as a US Marine in Al Anbar, Iraq's most violent province. Five years later, Anbar has been transformed into one of the safest, but not because the insurgency was defeated. When Zach returns, he begins ...

Poetry, mythology, metaphor, and the absurd are expertly weaved to tell the fable-like story of Rahmat, who sails from island to island off the coast of Iran to collect tears. Moody and elegant, The White Meadows is acclaimed writer/director Moham...

Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing, drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing—what do these all have in common? The White Family. From executive producers Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine (Jackass) comes a shocking and outlandish year...

Based on real-life journals, this intelligent retelling of an old urban legend, shot in a '70s-style B movie aesthetic, focuses on a Texas community terrified by a mysterious creature inhabiting the nearby woods.

This personal film was planned as a homage to the Silly Symphonies genre of musical animated shorts. With no spoken dialogue, it tells a story through classic personality animation, complimented by an original musical score by Ross Care.

Everything the Angulo brothers know about the outside world they learned from obsessively watching movies. Shut away from bustling New York City by their overprotective father, they cope with their isolation by diligently re-enacting their favorit...

The Woodmans are a family united in their belief that art-making is the highest form of expression and an essential way of life, but for photographer daughter Francesca, worldwide acclaim came only after a tragedy that would forever scar the famil...

A spiritual search for answers leads the filmmaker to a California workshop run by a spiritual leader who promotes sexual adventure -- and the possible existence of aliens. In this amusing and emotional film, Jamie and his friends shed their cloth...