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In 1933 Swiss-German painter Paul Klee fled Germany to escape the vilification of modern artists by the Nazi party. Taking up residence in Switzerland, Klee created his art in isolation as a mysterious illness began wreaking havoc on his body. While his body changed, so did his artwork. In Angel Applicant, filmmaker Ken August Meyer, […]

In December 2022, one of the most sensational cases regarding a former Ugandan child soldier, Dominic Ongwen, was finally settled at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Abducted at the age of nine by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Dominic Ongwen was forced to be a child soldier in a group ravaging northern […]

Armed with 30 years of home-video, 75,000 family photos and three tightly fit superhero costumes, director Christian Einshøj visits his family’s past and traverses its present, confronting a 25-year-old tragedy that changed everything. In a story of fathers and sons and of brothers, he embarks on a journey of redemption and reconciliation, pushing to break […]

The 10th Old School Kung Fu Fest is back April 21-30, 2023 with the biggest retrospective of Taiwanese wuxia (sword fighting hero) movies ever seen in New York City. Wuxia movies have a long history in Chinese cinema, but when King Hu’s Dragon Inn  premiered in 1967, it kicked off a wuxia revival that reinvented action movies. […]

Anthology Film Archives hosts March 24-28, 2023 a long-overdue retrospective of works from moving-image artist, writer, and poet Abigail Child. A leading figure of the generation of experimental filmmakers that emerged in the late 1970s, Abigail Child has continued to make innovative and challenging work on a wide range of topics for over 50 years. […]

The Worst Ones captures a film within in film, following the production of a feature whose director uses local kids as his cast. Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, director Gabrielle, played by Johan Heldenbergh, aims to capture gritty authenticity as he hand-picks and casts four working class teenagers from the local […]

Short film Almost Home tells the coming-of-age story of Jakob, a teenage boy struggling to overcome a disability, living aboard a cramped spaceship with his mother. As the end of their two-year voyage nears, Jakob dreams of returning to Earth and life with his father and friends. But as they near Earth, they learn the […]

Short film Getaway explores what can happen to a family dynamic when escaping their everyday circumstances. Struggling with civil unrest in the United States, a Jamaican immigrant takes her young son on his first trip to her homeland. As they adjust to a quieter life away from the daily threat of gun violence, mother and […]

In Who Are You People, a family drama unfolds through the eyes of 16-year-old Alex who wonders about her parents “who are you people.” Seeking answers to understand her identity and why she doesn’t seem to fit in, she digs up past family secrets and undertakes a journey to confront her discoveries. Along the way, […]

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