Archived Festival Film

I Just Wanted To Be Somebody

What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman: Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, and composed of news footage, commercials and Bryant's own home movies, I Just ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Look Both Ways

Tommy and Joey furiously pound on their game controllers as their galactic space battle intensifies. Susie and Jimmy feverishly rock up a storm as they brave level 10 of a dance game. Lori and Bobby are caught up in a star-crossed lovers web chat.... read more

Archived Festival Film

A Slim Peace

When 14 women-Israelis, Palestinians, Bedouin Arabs, and American settlers in the West Bank-are brought together with the shared goal of losing weight, they find out they have far more in common than they ever would have imagined. A Slim Peace tak... read more

Archived Festival Film

Nagpapanggap

Lourdes is a teacher, a mother and a wife. Always placing others first, she is determined to help the women around her. But faced with the possibility of her husband's infidelity, can she find the strength to help herself? Set against the backdr... read more

Archived Festival Film

Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16

In 1947, Austrian émigré Amos Vogel launched Cinema 16 as a place where New Yorkers could see a wide range of "different" films -- documentaries, works from overseas, experimental cinema. It soon grew into the most influential film society in Ame... read more

Archived Festival Film

The Man from the Embassy

The empty existence of a German official living in Tbilisi, Georgia, brightens when he forms a tenuous friendship with a 12-year-old girl living in one of the city's refugee camps. But corruption, violence and accusations of pedophilia taint their... read more

Archived Festival Film

Piece By Piece

Piece By Piece is a documentary about the resurgence of the Rubik's Cube and, specifically, the sport of speedcubing. Meet one of the original creators of a well-known speedcubing algorithm and the 1982 Swedish speedcubing champion. Watch one-hand... read more

Archived Festival Film

A Story of People in War & Peace

A deeply personal meditation on the horrors of war and its effects is shown through the eyes of Armenian journalist Vardan Hovhannisyan. Weaving together footage from his country's 1994 conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the Nagoma Karabakh... read more

Archived Festival Film

The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face

Two days before Christmas in 1988, a 59-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her home in Johannesburg, South Africa. Because of police bungling, the crime was never solved. Now the woman's daughter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, returns... read more

Archived Festival Film

Red Shoes

An aging Chinatown masseuse, Linda, tries to find a way to buy her 10 year-old daughter, Dee, a pair of shoes. When pressured by her client to make easy money, her vanity gets the better of her and she gives in to temptation. But as Linda finds he... read more