Festival:
The 10th anniversary BAMcinemaFest
Dates:
June 20-July 1
About:
Approximately two dozen features – among them 10 docs – as well as shorts and retrospective work make up the anniversary lineup of this celebrated Brooklyn event.
FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY
The fest’s documentary Centerpiece is Stephen Maing’s Sundance awarded
CRIME + PUNISHMENT, which follows NYPD officers of color who stand up to discriminatory institutional policies targeting minorities; while the event claims the world premiere for Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman’s
FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY, a doc/fiction hybrid initially focused on a dinner party which then becomes upended.
THE GOSPEL OF EUREKA
Docs in the main slate include three additional Sundance alums: Robert Greene’s
BISBEE ’17, and winners
SHIRKERS by Sandi Tan and
MINDING THE GAP by Bing Liu. Remaining nonfiction titles are: Shevaun Mizrahi’s
DISTANT CONSTELLATION, a meditative film set in a Turkish retirement home; Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside’s
AMÉRICA, about three brothers who take on the role of caretakers for their grandmother; Leigh Ledare’s
THE TASK, in which the filmmaker provokes strangers exploring group dynamics; Penny Lane’s
THE PAIN OF OTHERS, about sufferers of the contested Morgellons disease; and Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s
THE GOSPEL OF EUREKA, on a small Arkansas town famed for both a Passion Play and a gospel drag show.
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