The 34th Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2023 is at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center in the West Village, May 31 - June 11, 2023. $15. 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇹 🇺🇬 The festival's cast of filmmakers, film subjects, journalists, activists and academics lift the conversation about what's really happening in the world today. We have a lot of problems that we can only solve together. … [Read more...] about Human Rights Watch Film Festival Brings Global Problems into Focus
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DOC NYC 2022
DOC NYC 2022 is America's biggest documentary film festival, and considered one of the best in the world. 13th DOC NYC 2022 DOC NYC 2022, America's largest documentary film festival, is at IFC Center in Manhattan's West Village, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea, Wednesday, November 9-17, 2022. It continues online to November 27. 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 ✡️ 🇻🇪 🇺🇸 The … [Read more...] about DOC NYC 2022
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is More Relevant Than Ever
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 screens movies from around the world that highlight the challenges we face as one planet and one people. Human rights used to be a little on the fringe, but the climate, ecological and social issues that we face today make human rights a core issue. Somehow it is all tied together. In our Indigenous state, we have a symbiotic … [Read more...] about The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is More Relevant Than Ever
DOC NYC 2019
DOC NYC is the Independent Film Channel's documentary film festival. It is the biggest documentary film festival in the United States. DOC NYC 2019 DOC NYC is at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea daily for ten days November 6-15, 2019. Get tickets at docnyc.net from $17 Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy Thursday, November 7 ~ Elizabeth Carroll's 2019 Mexican … [Read more...] about DOC NYC 2019
“Boom for Real” Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Basquiat was a Haitian - Puerto Rican - American artist born in Brooklyn in 1960. He was the first Black international art star. Take Your Kids to the Museum As a child his mother often took him to the Brooklyn Museum. Learn Another Language Jean-Michel was a child prodigy. He read very early and everyone noticed his drawing abilities. While recovering … [Read more...] about “Boom for Real” Jean-Michel Basquiat
DOC NYC 2018 ~ America’s biggest documentary film festival
DOC NYC is America's largest documentary film festival. DOC NYC 2018 DOC NYC 2018 is at IFC Center in the West Village and SVA Theatre and Cinepolis in Chelsea Manhattan from November 8 - 15, 2018 Opening Night John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm opens the festival with its NYC premiere on November 8. For over eight years, John and Molly Chester struggle to work with … [Read more...] about DOC NYC 2018 ~ America’s biggest documentary film festival
Cocote
Cocote is Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’ 2017 Dominican film about Alberto, an evangelical gardener who returns to his hometown for his father’s funeral after his dad is murdered by a local thug. https://youtu.be/uaCrqgEL3pw The funeral is a mixture of Catholic and West African traditions, both of which challenge Alberto’s evangelical beliefs. Plus the family wants … [Read more...] about Cocote
‘Zama’ is Lucrecia Martel’s colonial Argentine story about waiting
Zama (2017) is Argentine director Lucrecia Martel's adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 classic of Argentine literature. https://youtu.be/Dc5hiLqHa6g New Argentine Cinema director Lucrecia Martel (La Ciénega, The Holy Girl, The Headless Woman) adapts Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 novel about Don Diego de Zama, an unimportant official of the Spanish colonial empire who … [Read more...] about ‘Zama’ is Lucrecia Martel’s colonial Argentine story about waiting
21st New York International Children’s Film Festival 2018
The New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) is an Academy Award® qualifying film festival of new feature and short films for children ages 3-18 years. 21st New York International Children's Film Festival The 21st New York International Children's Film Festival is weekends, February 23 - March 18, 2018. The Festival opens with a screening of Lu Over … [Read more...] about 21st New York International Children’s Film Festival 2018
Vazante
Vazante is a 2017 period piece by Brazilian director Daniela Thomas. She is known for her work (Terra Estrangeira, Paris, je t'aime and Linha de Passe) with internationally-acclaimed Brazilian director Walter Salles (Central do Brasil, The Motorcycle Diaries, On The Road). Director of photography Inti Briones shows the epic beauty of the Brazilian countryside which sets the … [Read more...] about Vazante
Django (Movie)
'Django' is Étienne Comar's French biographical drama about the legendary French Manouche "Hot Jazz" guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt. https://youtu.be/lUaw8G6CePs Django had its North American premiere at Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-vous with French Cinema film festival on Wednesday March 1, 2017. The movie is in French, German, English, and Romany with … [Read more...] about Django (Movie)
Like Crazy
Like Crazy (La pazza gioia) is Paolo Virzì's 2017 Italian comedy-drama starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti as two half women who make themselves whole by taking a road trip out of the psychiatric hospital into a truly crazy world. Villa Biondi is a psychiatric facility in Tuscany. Beatrice (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) is a former aristocrat who is a … [Read more...] about Like Crazy
Neruda
Neruda is a 2016 fictional biography of Pablo Neruda by Chilean director Pablo Larraín. Chile's submission for the 2017 Academy Awards stars Gael García Bernal as a detective searching for Neruda in 1940s Chile. Neruda in New York City Neruda opened at Film Society of Lincoln Center and IFC Center, Friday, December 16 and played at IFC Center through March 16, 2017. Get … [Read more...] about Neruda