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To Be of Service
A documentary by Josh Aronson | 88 minutes, 2019
Opens in NYC on November 1 & in LA on November 8
To Be of Service is a feature-length documentary film about war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who are paired with a service dog to help them regain their lives.
Returning home for these vets is often plagued with depression and a wrenching disconnect from the world they
once inhabited. Family, old friends, and jobs seem foreign, and newly returned warriors struggle to function and return to a normal civilian life. Service dogs offer a miraculous ray of hope in helping them come back to an independent, feeling life.
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City Dreamers
A documentary by Joseph Hillel | 81 minutes, 2018
U.S. Premiere at ADFF on October 20
City Dreamers explores our changing urban environment through the lives of four female architects: Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and Denise
Scott Brown – inspiring trailblazers who are helping to transform our urban environment.
Through original interviews, archival material and stunning cinematography, director Joseph Hillel uncovers how each of these strong, independent thinkers has shaped the cities in which we live and work.
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Colossus
A documentary by Jonathan Schienberg | 84 minutes, 2018
Official Selection: DOC NYC
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me..."
- Emma Lazarus, Statue of Liberty
Told through the eyes of 15-year-old Jamil Sunsin, Colossus is a modern-day immigrant tale of one family's desperate struggle after deportation leads to separation, and the elusive search for the American dream amidst the current backlash against immigrants.
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Graves Without a Name
A documentary by Rithy Panh | 115 minutes, 2018
Official Selection: Margaret Mead Film Festival
In this profoundly moving followup to his Oscar-nominated film The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh continues his personal and spiritual exploration of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge era.
"A haunting and lyrical ode to Cambodian history and humanity.
At once Panh's personal eulogy to the victims of this pogrom and a subtly informative treatise about history and universal humanity, Graves Without A Name is at once emotionally overwhelming, visually ravishing and intellectually stimulating."
-Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter
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The Corporate Coup d'État
A documentary by Fred Peabody | 90 minutes, 2018
In his provocative followup to All Governments Lie, Peabody explores how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process, and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin to vast swaths of the country.
The film combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the experiences of citizens from the nation's heartland, where factory closures and outsourcing have left people hopeless.
"Powerful. A horror film of the most realistic kind."
-Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
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Tattoo Uprising
A documentary by Alan Govenar | 77 minutes, 2019
Featuring some of the most extraordinary people in the tattoo world including Ed Hardy, Stoney St. Clair, Cynthia Witkin, Calamity Jane, and Anne de Hey!, Tattoo Uprising reveals the artistic and historical roots of today's tattoo explosion, from Biblical references and early
Christian practices, to our modern day, ever-evolving use of the tattoo in the Western world.
"Wide-ranging. Ever wondered if Werner Herzog has a tattoo? Thanks to Les Blank, he does. And watching him display it during the production of Fitzcarraldo is one of the biggest draws for cinephiles in Alan Govenar's documentary."
-John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
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Chasing Portraits
A documentary by Elizabeth Rynecki | 78 minutes, 2018
Moshe Rynecki was a prolific Warsaw-based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community until he was murdered in the Holocaust. For more than a decade his great-granddaughter, filmmaker Elizabeth Rynecki, has searched for his missing art.
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Back to the Fatherland
A documentary by Kat Rohrer & Gil Levanon | 77 minutes, 2018
Back to the Fatherland is the story of young people leaving their home country to try their luck elsewhere...but the young people here are moving from Israel to Germany and Austria – countries where their families were persecuted and killed. Why would they do this?
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You Go To My Head
A fiction feature by Dimitri de Clerq | 116 minutes, 2018
In a desolate stretch of the Sahara, a mysterious car accident leaves a young woman lost and alone. Jake, a reclusive architect, finds her and realizes she's suffering from amnesia. Intoxicated by the woman's beauty, Jake claims to be her husband and takes her to his remote desert home to recuperate.
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Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
A documentary by Oren Rudavsky | 85 minutes, 2019 In this new documentary, Adam Driver narrates and Liev Schreiber is the
voice of Joseph Pulitzer. Together, they bring to life the virtually unknown man whose name is attached to the Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in journalism, who spoke of "fake news" and the importance of freedom of the press over a century ago.
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Montessori: Let the Child Be the Guide
A documentary by Alexandre Mourot | 100 minutes, 2018
Curious about the Montessori Method, filmmaker Alexandre Mourot sets his camera up in the oldest Montessori school in France (with kids from 3 to 6) and observes this child-centered educational approach for an entire year.
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