Genre: Documentary

How the Sloppy Boys made and album on a farm in West Texas

Don’t miss a special screening of the documentary Persistence of Vision — which tell the story of  the greatest animated that was never made — and a live Q&A with the director Kevin Schreck. We’ll also be screening his brand new short Duck of NY — a short documentary about an unusual duck that appeared in New York’s Central Park and created a global media sensation.

This new documentary explores the cultural roots of coal that continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner’s daughter exploring the region’s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change.

Don’t miss this new documentaries about cats and the men who love them… Man has a new best friend in this heartwarming portrait of nine men whose lives have been forever changed by their proud love of cats.

Rescue & Escape – Passage To Sweden tells the lesser known story of events occurring in Scandinavia and…

It was during a visit to the church in her grandmother’s native village in Cinquera, El Salvador that Tatiana Huezo was inspired to make this film about the legacy of the civil war that tore the country apart from 1979 to 1991. The call to war had been launched from Cinquera. Pieces of a combat helicopter and portraits of young villagers who were killed decorate the church,  acting as  emblems of this violent history… Huezo filmed the village, the survivors, surrounding mountains, forests, and caves, and collected their memories of enduring, witnessing, and surviving in this marvelously edited film.

In the early 1960s in Lebanon, Manoug Manougian, a professor of mathematics at Haigazian University and his students designed and launched rockets for the study and exploration of space. A short while later, the students joined researchers mobilized by the Lebanese space program but the program fell under the control of the Lebanese army. The Lebanese Rocket Society was born. With financing from the state, the design of rockets improved and were tested. Despite its success, the Lebanese Rocket Society stopped operating suddenly in 1967, the ambitious scientific project vanished from collective memory. The film relates the astonishing story of the The Lebanese Rocket Society in the first chapter, and in the second chapter, the film follows the filmmakers as they try to reconstruct one of the rockets, as a sculpture.