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Showing 132 Films sorted by Genre: 'Politics'
Bernstein's Wall
Bernstein's Wall
An enlightening, complex look at one of the greatest figures in 20th century classical music whose passion and creativity guide...
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Bikechess
Bikechess
As Dina, a Kazakh journalist, finds herself disenchanted with reporting inane government initiatives, she balances supporting h...
06/09 @05:15PM
Village East by Angelika
06/11 @05:45PM
AMC 19th St. East 6
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Black Table
Black Table
In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to abolish affirmative action, this film thoughtfully looks back at the largest cla...
06/08 @08:30PM
SVA Theatre
06/09 @11:15AM
Village East by Angelika
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Blindspotting
Blindspotting
As Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) is ready to ring in the new year with Miles (Rafael Casal), she finds him being dragged out of...
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Breaking the News
Breaking the News
Breaking the News follows the determined efforts of women and LGBTQ+ journalists launching a news “startup” to foreground voice...
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Budd, Sweat & Tearz
Budd, Sweat & Tearz
After serving two decades for drug charges, Craig Sweat launches Uncle Budd, New York's first black-owned cannabis brand in the...
06/09 @05:30PM
AMC 19th St. East 6
06/12 @05:15PM
AMC 19th St. East 6
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Cannabis Buyers Club
Cannabis Buyers Club
Your friends are dying and no one is helping. What do you do? Sell more pot. The untold story of how the AIDS crisis led to mar...
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Champions of the Golden Valley
Champions of the Golden Valley
Former Afghan Olympic hopeful Alishah Farhang establishes Afghanistan’s first ever ski club and the annual Afghan Ski Challenge...
06/09 @02:30PM
Village East by Angelika
06/11 @02:30PM
Village East by Angelika
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Change the Name
Change the Name
Student activists and educators from Village Leadership Academy campaign to change the name of a park from a slaveholder to abo...
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CIVIL
CIVIL
An intimate yet expansive profile of Ben Crump, the lawyer dubbed “Black America’s attorney general.”
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Colored
Colored
Colored is a one of a kind augmented reality installation at the crossroads of theatre and digital arts. “Take a deep breath, e...
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Common Ground
Common Ground
Explore the notorious Aylesbury Estate, concrete monument to the history and legacy of social housing in the UK, and home to a ...
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Cuarto de Hora
Cuarto de Hora
Alex (25), is a young Haitian man living in Chile who is undocumented and does not speak Spanish. After a car accident he is he...
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Deciding Vote
Deciding Vote
50 years ago, assemblyman George Michaels cast a single vote on New York's abortion bill that changed the course of American hi...
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Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention
Shortly after draft-dodger Paul Couming receives a notice to stand trial, he and his friends arrange for the first political sa...
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DRIVER
DRIVER
DRIVER is a soulful exploration of resolute female long-haul truck drivers pursuing validation for their hard-earned work as th...
06/07 @06:15PM
AMC 19th St. East 6
06/08 @05:15PM
AMC 19th St. East 6
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Dust to Dust
Dust to Dust
Yuima Nakazato, one of the most promising designers in Japan, journeys to Kenya to learn about how the fashion industry has imp...
06/09 @05:00PM
Village East by Angelika
06/15 @05:00PM
AMC 19th St. East 6
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Ebb & Flow
Ebb & Flow
Determined to have her first kiss, a young teenage girl defies her tumultuous world in search of normalcy.
06/08 @08:15PM
Village East by Angelika
06/11 @06:15PM
AMC 19th St. East 6
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Emergent City
Emergent City
When global developers purchase Industry City — a series of connected industrial buildings within a primarily immigrant, workin...
06/11 @08:30PM
Village East by Angelika
06/12 @08:45PM
Village East by Angelika
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Endangered
Endangered
With riveting access and kinetic visual flair, Endangered is a sobering look at the erosion of democracy & freedom of the p...
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Esther In Wonderland
Esther In Wonderland
Drawn to the expressiveness of hip hop and breakdance, Esther (Naian González Norvind) tests the boundaries of her restricted e...
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Explant
Explant
Over the past six decades, thousands of women across the globe have become sick with an amalgam of mysterious and severe autoim...
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Ferguson Rises
Ferguson Rises
Before George Floyd, before Breonna Taylor, before America knew about Black Lives Matter, there was Michael Brown, Jr. Six year...
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Fever Dream
Fever Dream
Locked up at a clinic in the sky. حُمى و حُلمْ - humeh wa hulum - fever, and dream. Where do we go from here? "Do not leave the...
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Fifth of June
Fifth of June
Fifth of June is a reflection of police brutality, in which a group of young protesters are kidnapped by the same forces they a...
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