Mankiller
One of the most inspiring freedom fighters our country has produced, Wilma Mankiller rose up from an impoverished Oklahoma childhood to become Chief of the Cherokee Nation (the first woman to hold that title). This soft-spoken, iron-willed woman’s remarkable story, comes to vivid life in this eye-opening documentary. Read More
Running Time: 73
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End
Exploring the tumultuous career of controversial political cartoonist Mr. Fish, this incisive documentary reveals the complex man behind the incendiary images, and finds him wrestling with whether to compromise his subversive, challenging style in favor of mainstream acceptance. Read More
Running Time: 70
The Party
The newly elected Minister of Health, played by Kristen Scott Thomas, finds her champagne-popping celebration tumbling quickly into catastrophe after`her husband makes a bombshell announcement. Sally Potter’s savagely witty screenplay gleefully skewers the pretensions of her upscale characters. Read More
Running Time: 71
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
Fast-paced and fascinating, vibrating with the energy of a power chord strummed on a Gibson SG, Rumble fills in a piece of the history of 20th-century popular music that few people knew was missing: the Native American influence on rock ’n’ roll, blues and R&B.Winner: Special Jury Award, Sundance. Read More
Running Time: 102
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
Equal parts heart wrenching and exhilarating, this revelatory documentary follows one of show business’ greatest entertainers from a three-year-old tap dancing phenom through his time with the Rat Pack, facing opposition from both sides of the civil rights debate on his quest for his own American dream. Read More
Running Time: 100
Skid Row Marathon
Judge Craig Mitchell believes in second chances. This inspiring documentary tracks the running club Mitchell founded for the homeless on L.A.’s Skid Row, hoping that through the discipline of running, these men and women who had lost everything, could reclaim a sense of dignity. Read More
Running Time: 85
Stumped
Hailed by The Boston Globe as “inspiring, heartbreaking and often hilarious,” Stumped traces the journey of Will Lautzenheiser, who, after a bacterial infection required amputation of both his arms and legs, becomes a stand-up comic and a candidate for a pioneering double-arm transplant. Read More
Running Time: 72
A Taxi Driver
A massive box office success in South Korea, A Taxi Driver brings surprising humor and heart to the true story of a Korean driver who helped a German journalist to document a dark chapter of Korean history, the Gwangju Uprising of 1980. Read More
Running Time: 137
This is Congo
Both a gripping account of the current state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and lesson in the country’s history, photojournalist-turned-director Daniel McCabe’s documentary combines unfiltered footage of conflict with the day-to-day activities of regular Congolese people surviving in an unforgiving and perpetual... Read More
Running Time: 93
Tom of Finland
This rousing biopic traces the transformation of shy Helsinki ad-man Touko Laaksonen into an international gay celebrity, whose proudly homoerotic drawings shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men. Read More
Running Time: 114
The Wound
Lonely workman Xolani is assigned to guide initiate Kwanda through a Xhosa rite of passage, but Xolani’s relationship with another male guide and Kwanda’s own defiant identity are at odds with their masculine culture. This expertly crafted debut explores the ramifications the circumcision ceremony has on a group of boys and the... Read More
Running Time: 88