Arts, Music &#038; Culture

Life, Animated

A documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams based on a book by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ron Suskind.

Director: Roger Ross Williams

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 89 min.

Year of production: 2016

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Louder than a Bomb

A mic. A stage. A pen. A page. The story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to compete in the world's largest youth slam

Director: Jon Siskel | Greg Jacobs

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 99 min

Year of production: 2010

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Butterfly in the Sky

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY tells the story of the beloved PBS children’s series “Reading Rainbow,” its iconic host LeVar Burton, and the challenges its creators faced in cultivating a love of reading through television.

Director: Bradford Thomason | Brett Whitcomb

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 87 min.

Year of production: 2022

32 Sounds

Discover the immersive power of sound with 32 Sounds, a captivating documentary exploring how it bends time, crosses borders, and shapes our perception

Director: Sam Green

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 97 min.

Year of production: 2023

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The Islands and the Whales

An Interpid Cinema film

Director: Mike Day

Language: Danish, English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 81/52 min.

Year of production: 2016

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Unseen Skies

Yaara Bou Melhem’s documentary "Unseen Skies" explores state and corporate surveillance evolution through Trevor Paglen's audacious launch of artwork in space.

Director: Yaara Bou Melhem

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Romeo Is Bleeding

Richmond, CA is a community struggling with gun violence, stemming from a turf war which spans multiple generations. A local arts organization recruits young people to take part in an urban adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.

Director: Jason Zeldes

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 93 min.

Year of production: 2015

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¡Viva Maestro!

Superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel faces the test of a lifetime when social unrest in his Venezuelan homeland challenges his conviction that music has the power to unite

Director: Ted Braun

Language: English, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 99 min.

Year of production: 2022

Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend

A film charting the rise of Bob Marley and The Wailers to international stardom - made from footage shot in the early 1970s and lost for 30 years

Director: Ester Anderson | Gian Godoy

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 96 min.

Year of production: 2011

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The Students of Umberto Primo

In April 1941, when Nazi forces descend on Thessaloniki, Greece, nine young Jewish students of the Italian school, Umberto Primo, must put their hopes and dreams on hold and focus only on how they will survive.

Director: Alessandra Maioletti

Language: Greek, Italian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 83 min.

Year of production: 2022

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Rumba Rules, New Genealogies

Glimpse into the contemporary music scene of Kinshasa featuring Brigade Sarbati Orchestra

Director: David N. Bernatchez | Sammy Baloji

Language: French, Lingala (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 107 min.

Year of production: 2020

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Dark Blossoms

The deep friendship between three young outsider goths is threatened when one of them falls in love and eyes a possible escape from the Danish province.

Director: Frigge Fri

Language: Danish, English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 80 min.

Year of production: 2021

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The Cemetery of Cinema

A delightful and modern Don Quixote tale

Director: Thierno Souleymane Diallo

Language: French, Maninka, Pular (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 95 min.

Year of production: 2023

The Arc of Oblivion

In a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. What can be saved?

Director: Ian Cheney

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98 min.

Year of production: 2024

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The Torch

Guitar icon Buddy Guy reflects on his legacy.

Director: Jim Farrell

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 109 min.

Year of production: 2019

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Mr. SOUL!

Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip ensures the Revolution will be televised with SOUL!, America’s first “Black Tonight Show.”

Director: Melissa Haizlip

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 104 min.

Year of production: 2018

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States

Director: Göran Hugo Olsson

Language: English, Swedish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 92 min.

Year of production: 2011

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Gurrumul

GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.

Director: Paul Damien Williams

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 96 min.

Year of production: 2017

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

The life and insights of author Kurt Vonnegut

Director: Robert B. Weide | Don Argott

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 126 min.

Year of production: 2021

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The Art of Making It

Who gets seen, who gets left behind, and why does it matter who is anointed to tell the stories of our time?

Director: Kelcey Edwards

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 94 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Side by Side: The Science, Art, and Impact of Digital Cinema

Investigating the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation, revealing what artists and filmmakers have accomplished with both film and digital and what the future may bring.

Director: Chris Kenneally

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98/52 min.

Year of production: 2012

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Hong Kong Symphony: Heaven-Earth-Mankind

Tan Dun's "Symphony 1997" premieres as Hong Kong switches from British to Chinese rule.

Director: Larry Weinstein

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 57 min.

Year of production: 1997

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Cathedrals of Culture

"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves.

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 6 x 26 min.

Year of production: 2014

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The Art of Museums (series)

Blurring the boundaries between entertainment and high culture, this series takes the viewer into a fine selection of world’s most renowned museums.

Director: Julie Kirchhoff, Sylvie Kürsten, Ralf Pleger, Kurt Mayer

Language: English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 8x52

Year of production: 2018

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