Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James
This profile of legendary funk/R&B icon Rick James captures the peaks and valleys of his storied career to reveal a complicated and rebellious soul, driven to share his talent with the world.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Sacha Jenkins
Actors: Big Daddy Kane, George Clinton, Oscar Alston, Rick James, Todd Boyd
Bodyslam: Revenge of the Banana!
On a fateful evening in a Seattle dive bar, Josh Kuntz and a group of social outcasts put on a faux wrestling show to a crowd of enthusiastic bartenders. With…
American Gospel: Christ Alone
American Gospel explores the core question of Christianity, ‘What is the gospel?’ Through the distorting lens of American culture.
Brotherhood
Džabir, Usama and Uzejr are three young brothers in a Sunni family of shepherds. Since childhood, their father Ibrahim has rigidly trained them in the principles of the Quran and…
Movements of a Nearby Mountain
In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he…
The Plot to Kill Hitler
The 20th July 1944. Operation Valkyrie is underway. Conspirators race to change the course of history forever. Will the plot succeed or will Adolf Hitler escape unharmed…once again?
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70’s, Lunch has forged a…
The Real Nolly
Helena Bonham-Carter narrates this explorative doc about Noele Gordon. Witness the rise & fall of a soapland queen with access to personal papers and never-before-seen pictures.
Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre
This film provides a retrospective of 24 hours at the Nova festival in Re’im through the lens of young individuals who endured the horror.
Back to Chernobyl
The film tells the story of the Chernobyl accident through a mosaic of unique personal testimonies of its participants. The experiences of the difficult past and the sad results of…
When We Were Bullies
A mind-boggling “coincidence” leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident…
Once Upon a Time in the East
In the 90s Bulgaria joined the Eastern Bloc’s race for freedom. But as thousands flooded the streets calling for democracy the shadows were giving birth to criminal enterprise. And before…
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
One of the most important artists of our era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades, from techno-pop star to Oscar-winning film composer. The evolution of…