Category Archives: Documentary

BROKEN ENGLISH
A portrait of the inimitable singer, songwriter, and icon Marianne Faithfull.

Directors:
Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth

Producer:
Beth Earl

Country of Origin:
UK

Festival Section:
Spotlight

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THE OLIGARCH AND THE ART DEALER
Yves Bouvier brokers masterpieces, from da Vinci to Rothko, into the private collection of Dmitry Rybolovlev until Bouvier is accused of a billion-dollar betrayal. Rising ambitions, frayed relationships, and bruised egos fuel a decade-long all-out war between the Swiss art dealer and the elusive Russian oligarch.

Director:
Andreas Dalsgaard

Executive Producers:
Libby Geist, Connor Shell, Brandon Harrison, Justin Lacob, Charles De Lardemelle, Rain Rannu, Ines Bensalem

Producers:
Christoph Jörg, Miriam Norgaard

Country of Origin:
Denmark/France/USA

Festival Section:
Episodic

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MURDER 101
A case that haunted Tennessee’s best detectives for decades is cracked wide open by the most unlikely of investigators: a high school sociology class.

Director:
Stacey Lee

Executive Producers:
Stephanie Lydecker, Dianne McGunigle, Jon Watts

Producer:
William Crouse

Festival Section:
Episodic

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THE BEST SUMMER
Immersive POV camera footage reveals electric performances, candid interviews, and intimate backstage life with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, Beck, The Amps, and Bikini Kill — an all-access view inside an era-defining moment in music.

Director:
Tamra Davis

Producers:
Tamra Davis, Shelby Meade

Festival Section:
Midnight

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WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS
In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates learned that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in his Baltimore middle school. Upon revisiting the case, he uncovers the truth: Three innocent teenagers were wrongfully convicted and spent 36 years in prison — creating a lasting impact on the accused, the witnesses, and their community.

Director:
Dawn Porter

Producers:
Dawn Porter, Miriam Weintraub, Jennifer Oko

Festival Section:
Premieres

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TROUBLEMAKER
The struggle against apartheid is recounted through Nelson Mandela’s own voice, drawn from recordings he made while writing his autobiography LONG WALK TO FREEDOM.

Director:
Antoine Fuqua

Producers:
Antoine Fuqua, Mac Maharaj, Arthur Landon, Kevin Mann, Mark Bauch, Markus Davies

Country of Origin:
South Africa/USA/UK

Festival Section:
Premieres

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TIME AND WATER
Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.

Director:
Sara Dosa

Producers:
Shane Boris, Elijah Stevens, Jameka Autry, Sara Dosa

Country of Origin:
USA/Iceland

Festival Section:
Premieres

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QUEEN OF CHESS
A Hungarian girl dreams of conquering international men’s chess. After a 15-year battle against world champion Garry Kasparov, Judit Polgár revolutionizes the sport’s patriarchal culture to become one of the greatest chess prodigies in history and the greatest woman chess player of all time.

Director:
Rory Kennedy

Producers:
Rory Kennedy, Mark Bailey, Keven McAlester

Festival Section:
Premieres

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PARALYZED BY HOPE: THE MARIA BAMFORD STORY
Blurring the line between performance and personal crisis, comedian Maria Bamford turns her mental health journey into material that’s riotously funny and ultimately inspiring. What emerges is a portrait of an artist transforming vulnerability into creative strength through honesty.

Directors:
Judd Apatow, Neil Berkeley

Producers:
Judd Apatow, Neil Berkeley, Amanda Rohlke, David Heiman

Festival Section:
Premieres

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.

Directors:
William Greaves, David Greaves

Producers:
Liani Greaves, Anne de Mare

Festival Section:
Premieres

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