Archived Festival Film

Three Sisters Searching for a Cure

When she was diagnosed with ALS in 1997, 35-year-old theater producer Jenifer Estess rallied the corporate and entertainment communities together to work toward finding a cure. This intimate and unflinching documentary traces Estess' efforts, with... read more

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Another Road Home

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is given a human face -- actually, as many human faces as a family reunion -- through Israeli filmmaker Elon's quest to find Musa Obeidallah, the Palestinian man who kept house for her family in Jerusalem for more ... read more

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A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story

In 1991, a young intruder raped 76-year-old Florence Holway in her New Hampshire farmhouse. After an unsuccessful fight to prevent her rapist's plea bargain, Holway began a crusade for victims' rights that culminated in the rewriting of New Hampsh... read more

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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Based on the award-winning novel by Kimberly Willis Holt, this enchanting story stars Jerry Maguire ragamuffin Jonathan Lipnicki as a 12-year-old who, over the course of one unforgettable summer, finds out his mother is leaving home, meets Zachary... read more

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Love Collage

We've all experienced the intensity of first love. In this bittersweet romantic tale, set against the backdrops of New York and Tokyo, Tsutsumi presents a unique visual rendition of that once-in-a-lifetime experience by deftly switching back and f... read more

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Copyrighting Creativity: No Eyes Allowed on the Prize

Eyes on the Prize, the award-winning 1986 documentary series, includes a scene of Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff singing to him on his 39th, and last, birthday in 1968. But because of the copyright on "Happy Birthday" the scene was almost cut...pr... read more

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Sound Barrier

Jesse, an 11-year old deaf-mute boy, sets out to find an audio cassette his mother recorded shortly before her death, which may be locked in a storage room. The director of The Runner and Marathon portrays the boy's determined search as a heroic q... read more

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Original Child Bomb

A devastating meditation on the human costs of war, inspired by the Thomas Merton poem. Schonegevel's film mixes live action with found footage (including eerie color images of sun-drenched mornings in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and New York on Septembe... read more

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Finding Eleazar

A compelling chronicle of renowned tenor Neil Shicoff and his journey to revive Halévy's 1835 La Juive seven decades after it was banned by the Nazis. The opera's timeless themes of intolerance and fanaticism take on new meaning through the interp... read more

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Jailbait

In his directorial debut, LAByrinth Theater Company scribe Leonard offers an existential nightmare that rivals Neil LaBute's lyrical brutality. This claustrophobic prison drama reveals an unsettling emotional vulnerability at the core of a struggl... read more