Directed by Sue Williams • Documentary • 2020 • US • English and Cantonese with English subtitles
Featuring Denise Ho

"Denise Ho – Becoming the Song" profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented access, the film explores her remarkable jo...

Directed by Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan • Documentary • 2022 • Canada • English, Inuktitut with English subtitles
Featuring Tanya Tagaq, Laakkuluk Williamson, Bathory Mary Gillis

"Ever Deadly" weaves together intimate concert footage of Tanya Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections, stunni...

Directed by Catherine Gund • Documentary • 2014 • US • English
Featuring Elizabeth Streb, Sarah Callan, Fabio Tavares

"Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity" traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb's movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky.

Directed by Sam Blair, Joseph Martin • Documentary • 2016 • UK, Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Featuring Casanad Szegedi

As vice-president of Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials. But his life was upended when his gr...

Directed by Geethu Mohandas • Drama • 2013 • India • Hindi with English subtitles
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Geetanjali Thapa, Manya Gupta

An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, "Liar's Dice" is a deeply affecting road movie set in picturesque mountains on the Tibetan border to ...

Directed by Aaron Maurer • Documentary • 2021 • US • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Congressman Raul Ruiz

"Invisible Valley" weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snow- birds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California...

Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • 1998 • UK, US, South Africa • English
Featuring Corin Redgrave, Joseph Bale, Adriaan Bassier

In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theater director was arrested with Nelson Mandela. His name was Cecil Williams. This...

Directed by Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane

Reaching beyond the world of dance and the remarkable legacy of renowned choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones, this Peabody Award winning documentary touches the essence of c...

Directed by Atul Malhotra • Comedy • 2015 • U.K. • English
Starring Rez Kempton, Sam Vincenti, Martin Delaney

A Sikh, a Muslim and an Irish Catholic take stock of their lives in contemporary London in Atul Malhotra’s coming of age romantic comedy drama.

Directed by Robert May • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring William Blackwell, Sal Delgadillo, Robert Kesselring

"Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time" is a true story about obsession, greed, and the hunt for gold. When a retired missile scientist makes a monumental discovery, he hatches ...

Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Rudolph Bilotti Sr., Berthold Cohen, Charlotte Cohen

"Defining Hope" weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illnesses, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much m...

Directed by Alain Gomis • Drama • 2012 • France, Senegal • French, Wolof with English subtitles
Starring Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengu, Anisia Uzeyman

In a village outside Dakar, the gods - or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Directed by Alain Gomis and s...

Directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam • Drama • 2018 • US, India • Tibetan with English subtitles
Starring Tenzin Dolker, Jampa Kalsang Tamang, Tashi Choedon

When a young, exiled Tibetan woman unexpectedly sees a man from her past, long-suppressed memories of her traumatic escape across the Hima...

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Directed by Amos Gitai • Docudrama • 2015 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Ischac Hiskiya, Yitzhak Hizkiya, Pini Mittelman

In his brave and provocative film, Amos Gitai sets out to prove that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination was not just ...

Directed by William Greaves • Documentary • 1972 • US • English
Featuring Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Amiri Baraka

Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, "Nationtime" is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana in 1972, an event that gathered Black ...

Directed by Astra Taylor • Documentary • 2018 • Canada • English
Featuring Astra Taylor Angela Davis, Cornel West

Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis and featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, a...

Directed by Mark Noonan • Documentary • 2017 • Ireland • English
Featuring Kevin Roche

"Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect" is a feature documentary that considers many of the key questions throughout the career of Pritzker Prize winner Kevin Roche, including the relationship between architects an...

Directed by Peter Wang • Comedy • 1986 • US, China • English, Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Peter Wang Sharon Iwai, Kelvin Han Yee

The first American movie shot in China, "A Great Wall" is a delightful comedy about a San Francisco computer programmer who quits and moves his family to ...

Directed by Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine • Documentary • 2011 • US • English
Featuring Bill Bowes, Herbert Boyer, Nolan Bushnell

“Something Ventured” tells the story of the creation of America's start-up economy, an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and econo...

Directed by Franck Ribiere • Documentary • 2015 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Jacques Abbatucci, Marcos Bassi, Joe Beef

A global pursuit (with layovers in Japan, Argentina, Brazil, France, Spain, the U.S. and other countries) for the best steak in the world, "Steak (R)evolut...

Directed by Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam • Documentary • 2014 • Israel, US • Mandarin with English subtitles
Featuring Ran Tao

China is the first country to label internet addiction a clinical disorder. “Web Junkie” exposes a Beijing rehab center where teenagers are being "deprogrammed" and forced...

Directed by John Quested • Theatre • 1977 • US • English
Starring Donal McCann, Des Cave, Siobhan McKenna

Set in playwright Brian Friel's mythical Ballybeg, Ireland, The American Film Theatre's “Philadelphia, Here I Come!” presents an ingenious glimpse into the stock-taking of young Gareth "Gar...

Directed by Georgia Wyss • Documentary • 2018 • Spain, France, Greece, India, Russia, U.S., U.K. • English
Featuring Krishna Das, Snatam Kaur, Deva Premal

A feature-length documentary exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of chanting, "Mantra: Sounds into Silence" shares the storie...

Directed by James Blue • Arthouse • 1962 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Pierre Prothon, Jean Pelegri, Marie Decaitre

Filmed in Algiers and the surrounding countryside during the late stages of the Algerian War, under the pretext that it was a documentary about the wine industr...