Documentary

Director Shenpenn Khymsar Present

This documentary explores two worlds that rarely collide: Tibetans and heavy-metal music. 

How can you capture the consciousness of a city?  In Sei Venezia, award-winning Italian filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati goes in search of the pulse of Venice, looking to touch the soul of the city itself.

Peering into the city’s many mysterious corners, down narrow alleys and icy waterways, and into the lives of six of the city’s citizens, this beautiful documentary captures a Venice that is both immediately contemporary and strangely timeless. Through the stories of these citizens, Mazzacurati brings the distant city to life within the peaceful darkness of the cinema.   

This film takes on the daunting challenge of presenting a portrait of an historic figure who, invisible in his own time, is still virtually unknown in the contemporary world.  Fooling both British and Nazi commanders in World War II, Spaniard Juan Pujol aka Alaric aka Garbo, was arguably the most successful spy working on behalf of the allied forces during the war. To present this study, writer/director Edmon Roch’s directorial debut ingeniously mixes every sort of footage imaginable, including expert interviews, public domain archival footage, and even scenes from fictional spy features.  Both a captivating tale of espionage as well as a complex, provocative examination of documentary filmmaking, the film is sure to exhilarate every type of filmgoer.

A magazine plans to create an end-of-year sensation by having all of Korea’s most glamorous actresses together in a Vogue-style photograph for the first time. Why has no one tried this brilliant, sure-to-be-a-sensation idea before?

A very personal take on the history of experimental film, Pip Chodorov shares his affectionate account of growing up among some of the pioneers of avant-garde cinema.

Relentlessly incriminating, this hard-hitting film by Andrei Nekrasov and his recently deceased wife Olga Konskaya tells a vastly complicated geopolitical story... - Variety

An extraordinary visual feat, acclaimed Polish filmmaker, artist, poet, and stage director, Lech Majewski, brings Flemish renaissance painter Peter Bruegel’s 1564 epic masterpiece, The Procession to Calvary, to life.

Director Jon Foy  Present

TOYNBEE IDEA, IN MOVIE 2001, RESURRECT DEAD, ON PLANET JUPITER

A self-effacing and often enlightening glimpse into the aging process, told with a This American Life vibe... -City Pages

“Take a walk, have a hotdog, you’ll feel better,” says mortician Thomas Lynch in this comedic and engaging documentary on aging, happiness and eternal life.

In this prize-winning documentary about one mother's attempt to feed her family from a world away, the Barrientos family struggles to make ends meet in their poor Peruvian neighborhood, as matriarch Nati, 55, reluctantly leaves her husband and three sons behind to find work in Spain. Taking a job as a maid, Nati attempts to generate income to send back to her family in the hopes of a better life for her children, which puts to the test their unrequited love.