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The Gullspång Miracle and Copa 71
All Illusions Must Be Broken
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Jef Sewell, Laura Dunn; Writer: Ernest Becker; Stars: Ernest Becker, Sam Keen, Marie Becker, Sheldon Solomon, Jessie Christiansen, Ofir Turel)
A rumination on human mortality through the lens of American cultural anthropologist and Pultizer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker.
All We Carry
(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2023; Director: Cady Voge)
A young couple and their baby flee violence in Honduras only to find themselves caught in the complex web of US immigration.
Art For Everybody
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Miranda Yousef)
Thomas Kinkade, the most successful artist of his time, was beloved and despised for his paintings of cosy cottages. He rose to fame in the Nineties, marketing himself to evangelicals, and against the art establishment. Yet beneath his pristine image were demons that would drive him to alcoholism, scandal, and death from an overdose in 2012. Then his dark paintings emerged.
Bad Faith
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Stephen Ujlaki, Christopher Jacob Jones; Writer: Alec Baer, Christopher Jacob Jones, Stephen Ujlaki; Stars: Steve Schmidt, William J Barber II, Randall Balmer, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Anne Nelson)
A look at how Christian Nationalism has become the most powerful anti-democratic force in America, with an unparalleled ability to destroy democracy from within.
Born Hungry
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Barry Avrich; Writer: Barry Avrich; Stars: Shipra Khanna, Mark McEwan, Sash Simpson, Thomas Zacharius)
A runaway child from the streets of India is adopted by a family and becomes one of the top chefs in the world.
Sloane: A Jazz Singer and Flipside
Call Me Dancer
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Pip Gilmour, Leslie Shampaine; Writer: Jennifer Beman, Pip Gilmour, Leslie Shampaine; Stars: Manish Chauhan, Yehuda Maor)
A documentary about a young, talented street dancer from Mumbai whose parents' insistence is that he follow a traditional path.
Copa 71
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: James Erskine, Rachel Ramsay; Writer: James Erskine, Victoria Gregory, Rachel Ramsay; Stars: Brandi Chastain, Alex Morgan, Jose Palma)
Told by the pioneering women who participated, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women's Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history - until now.
The Echo (El Eco)
(Country: Mexico, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Tatiana Huezo)
In a remote and solitary valley, punished by winter and drought, the children learn to gaze upon death, illness and love.
First We Bombed New Mexico
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Lois Lipman; Writer: Lois Lipman, Joel Marcus)
The story of Trinity, the world's first nuclear bomb, detonated in New Mexico one month before the bombing of Hiroshima.
Flipside
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Christopher Wilcha; Writer: Joe Beshenkovsky, Adam Samuel Goldman, Christopher Wilcha)
A comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis
In The Rearview and The Echo
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Betsy Schechter; Stars: Gloria Gaynor)
A documentary about the singer who, after overcoming traumatic events in her life, earned a degree in psychology and invested her own resources to produce the gospel record Testimony, which earned her second Grammy 40 years later.
The Gullspång Miracle
(Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Maria Fredriksson)
A pair of sisters' encounter with a woman who looks like their dead sibling proves to be just the start of a whale of a tale.
Hidden Master: The Legacy Of George Platt Lynes
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Sam Shahid; Writer: Sam Shahid, Matthew Kraus, John MacConnell; Stars: George Platt Lynes)
George Platt Lynes began his career photographing celebrities, and it's those portraits along with his extravagant fashion work that he's best remembered for today. However, George's heart, his passion, and his greatest talent lay elsewhere: in his work with the male nude. This work, sensuous and radically explicit for its time, has only recently begun being fully discovered and appreciated for the revolution that it represents — a man capturing his fantasies as a gift, a window to a future his camera saw coming before anyone else.
In The Rearview (Skąd dokąd)
(Country: Poland, France, Ukraine; Year: 2023; Director: Maciek Hamela)
This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown.
Liv Ullmann - A Road Less Travelled
(Year: 2023; Director: Dheeraj Akolkar)
Exploration of the filmmaker's life and work.
Queendom and Maestra
A Look Through His Lens
(Country: US, France, Ireland, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Matthew Berkowitz, Gregory Hoblit)
Cinematographer Philippe Rousselot offers a master class in image making.
Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Barnaby Thompson; Writer: Barnaby Thompson; Stars: Noël Coward)
An exploration of Coward's expansive career which features credits across the stage and screen, including Brief Encounter, Blithe Spirit, and Private Lives.
Maestra
(Country: US, France, Poland, Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Maggie Contreras)
Documentary follows women from different backgrounds as they compete in the first all-women competition for conducting.
Musica!
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
A documentary following four students at the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory.
Obsessed With Light
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum)
Celebration of dancer Loïe Fuller.
Queendom
(Country: France, US; Year: 2023; Director: Agniia Galdanova)
Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes made from junk and tape, and protests the government on the streets of Moscow. Born and raised on the harsh streets of Magadan, a frigid outpost of the Soviet gulag, Gena is only 21. She stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism.
Sloane: A Jazz Singer
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Michael Lippert; Stars: Bill Charlap, Natalie Douglas, Dan Morgenstern, Mike Renzi, Catherine Russell)
Legendary singer Carol Sloane prepares for one final live recording in New York City while reflecting on her rich but largely unknown career involving some of the greatest names in music, from Ella Fitzgerald to The Rolling Stones.
The Space Race
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Lisa Cortés)
Documentary about the first Black astronauts.
Susan Feniger. Forked
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Liz Lachman; Stars: Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, Susan Feniger)
A verité documentary following award-winning celebrity chef Susan Feniger on her first solo restaurant, her passionate struggle and quest to bring global street food under one roof.
Swan Song
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Chelsea McMullan; Writer: Chelsea McMullan, Sean O'Neill)
A look at the devotion, artistry and sacrifices that Karen Kain and the National Ballet of Canada dancers make in their pursuit of creating something unique, meaningful and beautiful.
This World Is Not My Own
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Petter Ringbom, Marquise Stillwell; Writer: Ruchi Mital, Petter Ringbom; Stars: Uzo Aduba, Amy Warren)
For most of her life, Nellie Mae Rowe made art in obscurity in her home outside of Atlanta. Six years before her death, a wealthy gallerist introduced her work to the art world. In sets which reimagine Nellie’s home, actress Uzo Aduba, embodies an animated 3D character based on Nellie’s likeness. Her recorded dialogue, movements, and song make Nellie come to life.
Truth Be Told
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Nneka Onuorah; Stars: Billy Porter, Meagan Good, Cedric The Entertainer, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Kev on Stage)
A documentary about the reckoning between the LGBTQ+ community and the Black church in the US.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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