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American Mystic (Country: US; Director: Alex Mar)
The stories of three young Americans exploring alternative religion: a Wiccan in California mining country, a New Ager in upstate New York, and a Native American father and sundancer in South Dakota, all yearning for fulfilling spirituality in disparate but often strikingly similar ways.
World Premiere. Official Site
The Arbor (Country: UK; Director: Clio Barnard; Cast: Manjinder Virk, Christine Bottomley, Monica Dolan, Neil Dudgeon, Danny Webb, Jimi Mistry, George Costigan, Natalie Gavin)
The fascinating true story of troubled British playwright Andrea Dunbar and her tumultuous relationship with her daughter. Working from two years of audio interviews, Bernard uses classic documentary techniques, actors, theatrical performance, and Dunbar’s own neighborhood to generate a unique cinematic feast while unraveling the truths of a dark family past.
World Premiere. Full Review
Budrus (Country: Israel, Palestine, US; Director: Julia Bacha; Writer: Julia Bacha)
In one of the most conflicted parts of the world, a Palestinian family man unites rival parties Fatah and Hamas, Western activists, and even groups of progressive Israelis in a nonviolent crusade to save his village from being destroyed.
North American Premiere. Full Review
Earth Made Of Glass (Country: US; Director: Deborah Scranton; Cast: Paul Kagame, Rose Kabuye, Serge Sagahutu, Jean Pierre Sagahutu)
Weaves interviews with President Kagame of Rwanda and Jean-Pierre Sagahutu, a survivor of the horrific 1994 genocide. The president and a citizen - bound together by a profound love of country and an unquenchable desire to see the truth revealed - fight to expose the truth behind a murder and France's hidden role in the Rwandan genocide. World Premiere.
Feathered Cocaine (Director: Thorkell Hardarsson, O?rn Marino Arnarson)
Behind drugs, people, and weapons, falcon smuggling has become the world’s most mysterious and profitable illegal trade. Held in highest esteem by the wealthy elite throughout the Persian Gulf, the sporting birds have earned the label “feathered cocaine” as thieves race to ransack them from all parts of the world. This documentary unspools the surprising links between the falcon trade and royal dynasties, the CIA and KGB, the oil industry, and Al Qaeda. World Premiere.
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Freetime Machos (Country: Finland/Germany; Director: Mika Ronkainen; Writer: Mika Ronkainen; Cast: Matti Keränen, Mikko Koljonen, Roger Holden, Tuomo Jaakkonen, Jarmo Stoor, Ana Vidal)
Matti and Mikko play for Finland’s worst amateur rugby team. Overworked and domesticated, the two men long for a space to revel in their masculinity and bond with other men.
North American and TFF Virtual Premiere. Full Review Official Site
Into Eternity (Country: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Italy; Director: Michael Madsen; Writer: Michael Madsen, Jesper Bergmann; Cast: Timo Äikäs, Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm, Mikael Jensen, Berit Lundqvist, Wendla Paile, Esko Roukola, Sami Savonrinne, Timo Seppälä, Juhani Vira, Peter Wikberg)
Three miles below the earth, the people of Finland are constructing an enormous tomb to lay to rest their share of humans’ 300,000 tons of nuclear waste. To avoid disaster, it must remain untouched for at least 100,000 years. Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen ponders how to warn future civilizations that the buried treasure of our nuclear era — unlike the pyramids and great tombs of pharaohs - must never, ever be discovered.
International Premiere. Full Review See: Interview with Michael Madsen about Into Eternity Official Site
Monica & David (Country: US; Director: Alexandra Codina)
Monica and David are in love. Truly, blissfully in love. They also happen to have Down syndrome. Alexandra Codina’s affectionate and heartwarming documentary is an intimate, year-in-the-life portrait of two child-like spirits with adult desires. Supported (and, for more than 30 years, sheltered) by endlessly devoted mothers, Monica and David prepare for their fairy tale wedding and face the realities of married life afterward.
North American Premiere. Official Site
Sons Of Perdition (Country: US; Director: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Merten)
In the polygamist community cultivated by the notorious (and now incarcerated) “prophet” Warren Jeffs, women are a commodity, children are reared to be ignorant, and free thought is surrendered. For a group of teenage boys, the desire for autonomy means banishment from their homes and families. This fascinating documentary explores the heartbreaking losses and hopeful determination of these exiles as they struggle to make new lives in mainstream America.
World Premiere. Official Site
Thieves By Law (Ganavim ba Hok) (Country: Israel, Germany, Spain; Director: Alexander Gentelev)
A front-row invitation into the living rooms and offices of some of the most controversial and elite head honchos in the Russian mafia. World Premiere.
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The Two Escobars (Country: Colombia, US; Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist; Writer: Michael Zimbalist)
Born in the same city in Colombia but not related, Andrés Escobar and Pablo Escobar shared a fanatical love of soccer. Andrés grew up to become one of Colombia's most beloved players, while Pablo became the most notorious drug baron of all time. While adeptly investigating the secret marriage of crime and sports, Michael Zimbalist and Jeff Zimbalist reveal the surprising connections between the murders of Andrés and Pablo.
World Premiere. Full Review
The Woodmans (Country: US, China, Italy; Director: C Scott Willis)
The Woodmans are a family united in their belief that art-making is the highest form of expression and an essential way of life, but it’s only photographer daughter Francesca who achieves worldwide acclaim- after a tragedy that would forever scar the family.
World Premiere. Official Site
