From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America. Deborah Stratman’s experimental documentary explores how physical landscapes and human politics can each re-interpret historical events. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism, and resistance. Who gets to write history—physical monuments, official news accounts, or personal spoken-word memories?
Amarantos is a meditation on history and the shifting relevance of temporal and spiritual values. In...
Rate It X is a bitingly funny and disarming journey through the landscape of American sexism. Men on...

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...

A charismatic activist leads a globally-regarded NGO that provides shelter and education for girls r...

In 1954, before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summer job that would change...

Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, pe...

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in ja...

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one...

A documentary about the Synthwave scene, nostalgia and the universe of creating sounds. A love lette...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...

The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, ...

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Stre...

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...

In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. ...

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...