Neon (Firm)
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
2) Notturno
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Filmed over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, director Gianfranco Rosi's NOTTURNO captures the everyday life that lies in the aftermath of tyranny, invasions and terrorism. Winner of the Arca CinemaGiovani Award and the Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award at the **Venice Film Festival**.
3) Beba
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In this courageous, deeply human, and poetic self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection, filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt searches for a way to forge her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest.
4) Gunda
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm's ambient soundtrack, acclaimed director Victor Kossakovsky invites us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness, and reckon with the role humanity plays in it.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
From the makers of CONSOLE WARS comes the origin story of the GameStop stock market phenomenon, featuring exclusive access to the original players who lit the fuse on a historic amateur investor uprising. Spotlighting the human side of a sensational business drama, GAMESTOP: RISE OF THE PLAYERS is a David vs Goliath tale about ordinary people waking up to the power they have in numbers.
7) Ted K
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of America’s most notorious and enigmatic terrorist, The Unabomber becomes radicalized with rage as the outside world encroaches on his mountain sanctuary deep in the Rocky Mountains. What begins with small acts of sabotage culminates in deadly bomb attacks, national media attention, and the largest manhunt in American history.
8) Risk
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Filmed over six years, Julian Assange is undeterred to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired. In a new world order where a keystroke can alter history, RISK is a portrait of power, betrayal, truth, and sacrifice.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger–than–life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty–five years she captured the "surfaces" of those who visited her Cambridge, Mass studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.
10) Honeyland
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
HONEYLAND is an epic, visually stunning portrait of the delicate balance between nature and humanity that has something sweet for everyone. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Nominated for Best Documentary at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Winner of the World Cinema – Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Cinematography Award, and Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
12) Ailey
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty.
13) Sharp Edges
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
SHARP EDGES is an intimate look of the early years of figure skater, Tonya Harding. Featuring footage from the 80's and interviews with Tonya, her coaches and mother (portrayed by Allison Janney in an Oscar winning performance in "I, Tonya") the film focuses on her 1st National Figure Skating Championship 5 years before becoming the first American female figure skater to nail the triple axel.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid.
15) Border
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A BORDER guard with the special ability to smell human emotions meets a mysterious man that confounds her detection, forcing her to confront disturbing insights about herself. Nominated for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
16) Sanctuary
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A wickedly dark comedy follows dominatrix, Rebecca, and her wealthy client, Hal, as they engage in a high stakes role playing game for power and control. In the wake of inheriting his father's hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and secret relationship with Rebecca. A battle of wills ensues over the course of one incredibly fraught night, with both Rebecca and Hal struggling to keep the upper hand as the power dynamics swing wildly back and...
17) Ammonite
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
1840s England, acclaimed fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The novel Coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Americans and caused staggering economic damage. Where did we go wrong? As the presidential election nears, Americans are increasingly enraged by a lack of clear leadership left to wonder how did the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world manage to fail so thoroughly in its response to a global pandemic?
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Desperate for answers about the theft of her 2 paintings, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that will forever link these lonely souls. Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling at the Sundance Film Festival.