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14 Women
USA, 2007, 77 min.
An intimate documentary portrait of the 14 female senators who currently serve our country. Director Mary Lambert has gained extraordinary access, following the senators cinema verité style from 2004–2006 as they struggle to fight the good fight while balancing family, friends and workload.... more
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Angels in the Dust
South Africa, 2007, 94 min.
A wealthy Johannesburg family abandons their comfortable existence and spends their life savings to establish an orphanage in a village where 50% of the population is HIV-positive. This powerful documentary celebrates how children who are surrounded by death and tragedy can be instilled with strengt... more
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As Seen Through These Eyes
USA, 2007, 70 min.
Hilary Helstein’s revelatory documentary looks at the Holocaust from point of view of those interned who fought back by making art, documenting the horrors that lay before them as well as those dwelling so uneasily in their memories. Narrated by Maya Angelou.... more
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Autism: The Musical
USA, 2007, 94 min.
An emotional, loving, and moving documentary following the six-month rehearsal process of the aptly-named Miracle Project, in which a group of autistic children write and perform a full-length musical.... more
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The Best of Me
Spain, 2007, 83 min.
Award-winning actress Marian Alvares portrays a young woman who must decide whether or not to serve as an organ donor for her new lover in this emotionally honest melodrama.... more
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Body of War
USA, 2007, 87 min.
Veteran talk-show host Phil Donahue’s Academy Award-nominated documentary is a hardhitting indictment of governmental misuse of power focusing on one of its most courageous victims—a soldier paralyzed by a bullet five days after his arrival in Iraq.... more
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Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
USA, 2007, 40 min.
Director Alice Elliot’s Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy is an intimate portrait of two women with disabilities who are determined to live independent, non-institutionalized lives.... more
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The Business of Being Born
USA, 2007, 84 min.
Abby Epstein’s intelligent investigative documentary details the downside of hospital child birthing practices while stumping for innately healthier natural childbirth methods. Actor Ricki Lake (shown having her baby naturally) is our guide through this perfect companion piece to Sicko.... more
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Caramel
Lebanon, 2007, 96 min.
A bittersweet comedy set in a Beirut beauty parlor centered on five women. Layele and her friends are threads that weave a portrait of women muddling through the uncertainties of a culture caught between the modern and the traditional, yet never giving up hope of love.... more
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Dharm
India, 2007, 103 min.
In Dharm, a four year old boy challenges the very core of a traditional Brahmin priest’s beliefs—and our faith in humanity—when it is found out that the little boy adopted by the priest is a Muslim.... more
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Freeheld
USA, 2007, 38 min.
Laurel Hester, a policewoman with 25 years of service on the Ocean County police force, faces a form of discrimination that confronts too many people in contemporary America. This incredibly moving documentary draws attention to the issue of domestic partnership benefits for same-sex couples in a wa... more
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Hats Off
USA, 2007, 81 min.
Mimi Weddell, 92 years young, makes her living in New York City in “theatre, movies, print and little TV things that come along.” As the camera follows her from lessons to auditions and back, we discover one woman—seen in Sex & the City, Law and Order, Hitch and The Purple Rose of Cairomore
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Hounds
Germany, 2007, 86 min.
His mother having run off, 16-year old Lars feels even more isolated when he discovers his father is having an affair. But with the entrance of a young mute girl, it appears that his luck is about to change. A delicate blend of coming-of-age story and dysfunctional family comedy.... more
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Investigation
Bulgaria, 2006, 101 min.
The only female inspector on the Sofia Police Force takes on a difficult murder case to prove herself to colleagues and family. She must extract a full confession from the suspect in three weeks, but he proves unwilling to talk.... more
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Jellyfish
Israel, 2007, 78 min.
Winner of Cannes’ prestigious Camera d’Or, this tightly constructed, cleverly stylized, serio-comic ensemble piece set in contemporary Tel Aviv offers different story strands that share themes including the need for affection and the struggle to communicate.... more
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Late Bloomers
Switzerland, 2006, 86 min.
This charming comedy about how the opening of a lingerie shop scandalizes a small Swiss village proves that it’s still possible to have dreams and reach your goals at a mature age.... more
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Noodle
Israel, 2007, 100 min.
This touching comic drama centers on a twice-widowed El Al flight attendant and her quest to reunite a young Chinese boy and his migrant worker mother, who has been summarily deported from Israel.... more
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Out at the Wedding
USA, 2007, 96 min.
Alex can’t bring herself to tell her conservative family she is engaged to her bi-racial boyfriend. A misunderstood wedding speech and a rumor she’s a lesbian later, her newly-married sister comes to visit for some family bonding. However, when she meets Alex’s stand-in “girlfriend” all bets are off... more
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Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm
USA, 2007, 74 min.
This humorous, revealing, and informative documentary traces the history of the vibrator, which evolved along with the women’s movement, from medical to mechanical to recreational device.... more
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Persepolis
France, 2007, 95 min.
A darkly humorous animation based on Marjane Satrapi’s experiences as a spirited young Muslim woman coming of age—from mischievous schoolgirl to rebellious teenager and beyond—against the turbulent background of Iran’s recent past.... more
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The Pixar Story
88 min.
Oscar nominated director Leslie Iwerks takes us on a twenty-year journey through the world of Pixar Animation Studios, where creativity, science, and daily drama have fueled their pioneering pursuits of an ever inspired art form.... more
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Possible Lives
Argentina, 2007, 80 min.
With echoes of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique and François Ozon’s Under the Sand, Possible Lives tells the story of a supposedly happy couple who are anything but. The husband vanishes, the wife investigates, there’s silence and there’s wind.... more
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Santa Fe Street
Chile, 2007, 163 min.
Calle Santa Fé in the suburbs of Santiago de Chile on 5th October 1974. Carmen Castillo survives her partner, Miguel Enríquez, leader of the Revolutionary Left-Wing Movement (MIR) and of the Resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship, killed in combat. Calle Santa Fe is the story of this wo... more
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She's a Boy I Knew
Canada, 2007, 70 min.
When Gwen Haworth decided to be true to her identity, her loved ones lost someone—their son, brother and husband—Steven. This sensitive documentary examines the emotional impact of her successful gender transformation on her nearest and dearest... more
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The Stone Angel
Canada, 2007, 110 min.
Ellen Burstyn shines as the strong-willed 90-year-old Hagar Shipley who’s not ready for the nursing home just yet, thank you, and takes off north through Manitoba on a journey of remembrance. The film masterfully brings her memories to life—with the father/son duo Wings and Cole Hauser playing her h... more
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Time to Die
Poland, 2007, 104 min.
Determined to live on her own terms, a feisty, active nonagenarian designs some mischief when nouveau-riche neighbors, aided by her cold-hearted son, conspire to gain her property.... more
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Vivere
Germany, 2007, 97 min.
The lives of three troubled women intersect one fateful Christmas Eve and become inextricably linked in this touching exploration of Francesca, Eva and Gerlinde—three lost souls on the run.... more
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War/Dance
USA, 2007, 105 min.
Outside a refugee camp in remote northern Uganda, the violence and grief of a 20-year civil war rage. Meanwhile, within the camp’s fences, children sing and dance. This moving documentary about preparations for a nationwide music festival finds hope in horror, revealing the pride and exuberance of t... more
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XXY
Argentina, 2007, 91 min.
The psychological damage caused by inappropriate gender assignation is sensitively explored in newcomer Lucia Puenzo’s brave study of teen angst in a teenager with something to be angst-ridden about. Born a hermaphrodite and raised as a girl, 15-year old Alex is nudged by her parents toward making a... more
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