Category Archives: Recommendations

32 Sounds
An immersive documentary and sensory film experience that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us. The film will be presented in its “live cinema” form, featuring live music and live narration.

Lead Artist:
Sam Green

Producers:
Josh Penn, Tommy Kriegsmann

Festival Section:
New Frontier

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PHOENIX RISING
Actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational trauma, and reclaim her story in a culture that instinctively blames women. The film intimately charts her journey as she moves toward naming her infamous abuser for the first time.

Director:
Amy Berg

Producers:
Kirsten Sheridan, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller

Festival Section:
Special Screenings

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LAST FLIGHT HOME
An examination of Eli Timoner’s intentional death and his family’s emotional turmoil as they grapple with his decision to end his own life. The family journeys back through Eli’s remarkable, painful life to discover what true love looks like and help him shed shame he’s carried for forty years.

Director:
Ondi Timoner

Producers:
Ondi Timoner, David Turner

Festival Section:
Special Screenings

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THE AMERICAN DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
Abigail Disney looks at America’s dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. As a way to imagine a more equitable future, Disney uses her family’s story to explore how this systemic injustice took hold.

Directors/Producers:
Abigail E Disney, Kathleen Hughes

Producer:
Aideen Kane

Festival Section:
Special Screenings

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Instant Life
Destitute without electricity and running water, Yolanda Signorelli Von Braunhut has lost control of her late husband Harold’s iconic Amazing Live Sea Monkeys novelty. Yet she alone knows their secret formula, and from her crumbling estate on the Potomac, Yolanda wages legal and existential battles to fully win them back.

Directors/Producers:
Mark Becker, Aaron Schock

Festival Section:
Indie Episodic

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Three Minutes – A Lengthening
Three minutes of footage are the only moving images known of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk in Poland before the Holocaust. An examination of that film — in color, random, full of life — reveals historical and personal dimensions.

Director:
Bianca Stigter

Producer:
Floor Onrust

Festival Section:
Spotlight

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