The Apollo
The history of New York City’s Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Actors: Angela Bassett, Aretha Franklin, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Jamie Foxx, Patti LaBelle, Pharrell Williams, Redd Foxx, Smokey Robinson
Have Fun in Pyongyang
Is it possible to have fun in Pyongyang? Can one be joyful in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? If so, who can? Everyone? Doing what? Why does Kim Jong-un…
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for…
The Eclipse
With the solar eclipse in 1999 as her mirror image, an exiled film artist turns her analogue film camera on her family in ex-Yugoslavia in a work that maps how…
10 Plus 10
10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each…
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another
With an elephant’s tusk as the protagonist, the film meditates on the endless tactility of conservation.
Bright Green Lies
Bright Green Lies investigates the change in focus of the mainstream environmental movement, from its original concern with protecting nature, to its current obsession with powering an unsustainable way of…
An Open Secret
An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.
GLOW: The Story of The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
The year is 1986. Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW) is about to burst onto the scene as the first ever all-female wrestling show on television. By 1989, the GLOW girls…
Far from the Tree
Parents of children who have Down syndrome, dwarfism or autism share intimate stories of the challenges they face. Tracing their joys, challenges, tragedies, and triumphs.
Elvis and the USS Arizona
The surprising story of how one of music’s biggest icons helped to establish a USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor. Elvis’ fundraising concert drew public attention to the plight and…
Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet
Billy Connolly was, in the 1970s, a sort of Scottish Lenny Bruce, who, with devastating humour, sliced through the hypocrisies he perceived. This 1976 documentary follows the singer-comic during his…
Naked: Sex and Gender
Film about the gender binary. What is it, how does it manifest itself in our minds and our lives – and how can we go beyond? Just how different are…