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Opening Night: Circus Without Borders
Two premier acrobats from separate corners of the globe bring hope to their struggling communities
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Albert Maysles Tribute
In honor of the iconic filmmaker Albert Maysles, this year’s retrospective screening features three of the many projects he worked...
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Avant
Argentine superstar Julio Bocca struggles to restore the fortunes of Uruguay’s national ballet
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Banana Pancakes and the Children of Sticky Rice
A delicate meditation on globalism and how we relate to others in a rapidly globalizing world
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Bering. Balance and Resistance (Bering. Equilibrio y Resistencia)
Residents of the fabled Bering Strait balance a modern lifestyle with the preservation of ancient customs and language
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El Cacao
Neoliberal ideology, human rights, and the economics of fair trade collide in this look at the chocolate industry
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Containment
How will we warn future societies about buried radioactive waste?
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China Remix
In Guangzhou, three African immigrants seek success in the local hip-hop scene.
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Drawing the Tiger
A girl in rural Nepal confronts the hope and burden of trying to break free from generations of poverty
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Driving with Selvi
An 18-year-old escapes an abusive marriage and becomes South India’s first female taxi driver
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Earth’s Children (Hijos de la Tierra)
Daily life of Kechwa-Lamista children in the Peruvian Amazon as documented by the community
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East Punk Memories
A documentarian returns to interview Hungarian punk musicians she first filmed in the ’80s
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Elephant’s Dream
Stories of workers at public institutions illuminate the struggle between modernity and colonial legacy
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Emerging Visual Anthropologists Showcase
In this special showcase we present three of the newest shorts to come out of the Visual Anthropology tradition.
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Enter the Faun
Sold out - A veteran choreographer and a man with cerebral palsy challenge the boundaries of art and medicine
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Ever the Land
New Zealand’s passionately independent tribe Ngāi Tūhoe builds one of the world’s first Living Buildings
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Exit Zero
Following the collapse of Chicago’s steel industry, families explore loss and work to rebuild.
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Flor de la Mar
Venezuelan fishermen fight to protect the ruins of the first European city in the Americas
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The Funeral Singer
A Vietnamese funeral singer celebrates life and family through the process of death and grieving
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Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World
A riveting account of the fight to preserve the land, sea, & people of Haida Gwaii, BC.
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Hajwalah
A young man’s passion for illegal joyriding provides a novel perspective on life in Riyadh
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Herders
Using Oculus Rift headsets, viewers plunge into the lives of nomadic yak herders in Mongolia
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How to Dance in Ohio
Young adults on the autism spectrum face and conquer anxiety as they prepare for a formal dance.
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Icaros
A young Shipibo man investigates the history of ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used by shamans.
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Closing Night: In a Perfect World...
A filmmaker and single mother in NYC observes the dramatic turn her relationship with her son takes as he enters high school and...
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The Invisibles (Die Unsichtbaren)
Asylum-seekers in Germany encounter the grinding bureaucracy of Europe’s immigration crisis
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J'ouvert
Brooklyn’s wildest party is a late-night festival that kicks off the West Indian Day Parade
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Juanita
A fascinating window into the life of a Mayan traditional doctor, midwife, nurse, and activist
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Kasheer: Art, Culture and the Struggle for Azadi
This film puts a distinctly human face on the disputed territory of Kashmir through the work of three local artists
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Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
Sold out - 50 of the world’s endangered languages collide in a tour de force of poetic & cinematic styles
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Killing Time (Entre Deux Fronts)
A small town in the Californian desert welcomes soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
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Land of Songs
A group of sprightly Lithuanian grandmothers keep their village’s folk-singing tradition alive
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The Ladies
Ukrainian women in the East Village have gathered regularly for 50 years—to make dumplings!
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The Last Refuge (Le Dernier Refuge)
Sold out - In the heart of Cambodia, the Bunong people resist corporate deforestation with traditional rituals
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Leaving Africa: A Story About Friendship and Empowerment
A Finnish doctor and her partner fight for sex ed and gender equality in conservative Uganda
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Love Marriage in Kabul
An orphan in love grapples with the realities of traditional marriage arrangements
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Matria
Fernando Llanos embarks on a quest to learn about his grandfather, a distinguished but mysterious charro
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The New Man (El Hombre Nuevo)
A character study of Stephania, Sandinista fighter, parking lot attendant, and trans woman
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One Dollar Series: The Guide Boy (Episode 5)
Sold out - A spirited Cambodian 12-year-old works as a tour guide to support his ill and widowed father
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One Dollar Series: Lady Stone (Episode 3)
Sold out - A woman who lost her husband and her livelihood tenaciously clings to dwindling hope
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One Dollar Series: Minister of Papaya (Episode 1)
Sold out - With a motorbike and a sense of humor, a papaya salesman brings hope to the streets of Phnom Penh
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One Man’s Trash
A veteran sanitation worker curates a museum of discarded objects in an East Harlem garage
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The Redfern Story
A small group of Aboriginal activists jumpstart a civil rights movement with theater and song
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The Room of Bones (El Cuarto de los Huesos)
A group of El Salvadoran forensic anthropologists unearths human remains in hopes of identifying victims of mass murder
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Rootless
A family straddling city and country life embodies the fading of Mongolian culture in China
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Sailing a Sinking Sea
Delve into the lives and culture of the seafaring Moken, a Southeast Asian ethnic group that relies on the ocean for every aspect...
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The Shore Break
A proposed titanium mine on South Africa’s Wild Coast splits a community over its future
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Snapshot Mon Amour
Disasters can have subtle effects beyond visible destruction. In post-Fukushima Japan, a filmmaker investigates unforeseen linguistic...
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Songlines on Screen: Goorrandalng: Brolga Dreaming
A story song about the brolga, a crane native to Australia.
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Songlines on Screen: Naji
A Goolarabooloo elder performs a creation myth from the Bugarregarre time (the dreamtime).
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Songlines on Screen: Tjawa Tjawa
Mark Moora traces the route of a dreamtime story of his people.
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Sound Of A Million Insects, Light Of A Thousand Stars
Buried overnight in an officially "safe,” decontaminated area 15 miles from Fukushima, 35-millimeter film still picks up the...
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The Tentmakers of Cairo
A small souk preserves an ancient tradition of Arab fabric making in the midst of revolution.
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What Remains
Spanish anthropologists investigate the mass graves of Franco’s legacy: 118,000 disappeared