Film Festival 2024
Documentaries
All Illusions Must Be Broken
Philosophically deep and cinematically rich, this inventive meditation on the wisdom of Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker shoots off a flurry of provocative ideas, from the evils of utopian thinking to the joy of living a life of disillusion. Read More
Running Time: 89
Art for Everybody
This engaging portrait of prolific painter Thomas Kinkade studies the populist and conservative artist who was widely panned by art critics but beloved by tens of thousands of Americans, ultimately revealing that the picture was not quite what it seemed. Read More
Running Time: 99
Bad Faith
An audience favorite!
The forces tearing apart our democracy have never been more frightening or powerful, but who is actually behind them? Bad Faith exposes the sinister Christian Nationalism movement and shines a light on its unholy plan to upend the constitution and impose Biblical law on all Americans. Read MoreRunning Time: 89
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
An audience favorite!
Gloria Gaynor’s radiant spirit shines in this inspiring portrait of the great disco queen of the ’70s. Overcoming one hurdle after another – a crippling back injury, an abusive husband, a murdered sister – Gaynor roars back with her Grammy-winning gospel album. Read MoreRunning Time: 99
Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
An audience favorite!
A pioneer of homoerotic photography, the great early 20th-century fashion photographer George Platt Lynes was creating iconic images of the nude male body long before Robert Mapplethorpe. His glamorous, unconventional life was as rule-breaking as his art. Read MoreRunning Time: 96
Maestra
Move over, Tár! In this musical documentary, aspiring women conductors gather in Paris for a career-making competition. We get to know these remarkable young women – from Atlanta, Poland, France, Greece and Ukraine – in a grand demonstration of the art of conducting. Read More
Running Time: 88
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Featuring a wealth of archival material and waspish witticisms, this fascinating portrait of a 20th-century great digs into the contradictions that marked the life of actor, singer, playwright, lyricist, style icon, closeted homosexual and British intelligence operative Noël Coward. Read More
Running Time: 91
Susan Feniger, Forked
Join us for post-screening Q&As with Susan Feniger and Director Liz Lachman on January 8, 13 and 14. Susan Feniger. FORKED…a culinary disaster film. This documentary follows celebrity chef Susan Feniger on her first solo restaurant and struggle to bring global street food under one roof: the LA restaurant, STREET. Shot by... Read More
Running Time: 92
This World Is Not My Own
This playfully inventive, historically rich documentary illuminates the life of Southern-raised folk artist Nellie Mae Rowe, whose funky, magical creations were championed by a rich, eccentric Jewish gallerist who opened the world’s eyes to Rowe’s singular visions. Read More
Running Time: 97