Watatu (2015)
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Director: Nick Reding
Actors: Ali Mohamed Mlatso, Angie Magio, Benson Obiva, Carolyne Rita Mutua, Said Muhsin
Country: Kenya
Dahomey (2024)
Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned…
The Price of Everything (2018)
Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art…
Katrina Babies (2022)
A first-person account of the short-term and long-term devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, as told by young people who were between the ages of 3 and 19 when the levees…
Angels of Sinjar (2022)
Hanifa and Saeed barely survived the hell that ISIS inflicted on them and their people. Hanifa escaped kidnapping, but her younger sisters were enslaved by the Islamic State. Hanifa embarks…
Smash His Camera (2010)
A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of paparazzi.
The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014)
A descent into Eastern Europe’s haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man’s place in nature.
Yannick (2017)
At 41 years old, the Quebecois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has established himself as one of the most gifted maestros of his generation, with numerous prestigious posts with some of the…
Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022)
Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promise of the Land Back movement,…
From Science to God: Exploring the Mystery of Consciousness (2005)
“How is it that something as unconscious as the matter of the brain ever gives rise to something as immaterial as an experience?” Russell, a prominent thinker in the fields…
Jacinta (2021)
An intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, Jacinta follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break free from an…
Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir’s “Picnic At Hanging Rock,” a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers…
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during…