Interest: Women Writers, Directors + Producers
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Closing Night: Cha Cha Real Smooth
Deeply ambivalent 22-year-old Andrew, a bat mitzvah party-starter, befriends single mother Domino (Dakota Johnson) and falls for a homelife that has no room for him…
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Children of the Mist
Living in isolation from the modern world in the mountains of Vietnam, feisty Hmong teenager Di must decide if she will succumb to tradition or…
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Trinh T. Minh-ha: Persistence of Vision Award + What About China?
UC Berkeley professor and experimental filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha fascinates with this video essay examining the mercurial nature of China nearly half a century after…
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Wet Sand
A granddaughter returns to her reclusive grandfather’s seaside village in Georgia after his suicide to organize his funeral only to discover his long-suppressed secret love…
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We Feed People
Acclaimed director Ron Howard helms this uplifting documentary profiling renowned chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen, his nonprofit dedicated to feeding people in…
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Sublime
Irresistible garage rock enhances this winning coming-of-age tale as teenage bass player Manu, swept up in a cascade of emotions and hormones, falls in love…
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Opening Night: Stay Awake
A tender portrait emerges of the day-to-day fight for sobriety and the hopeful resilience of families attempting to overcome addiction in this powerful drama that…
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Sonne
When three teenage girlfriends make a home music video to R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion,” their moment of uninhibited camaraderie becomes an unexpected viral sensation in…
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Sun & Daughter
At Lake Titicaca in the mountains of Bolivia, 10-year-old Lucia concocts a mythical reunion with her father, who is away working in La Paz.
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The Thief Collector
A surreal 20th-century mystery unfolds in this fascinating documentary that unpacks the audacious 1985 heist of a Willem de Kooning painting from an Arizona museum…
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Navalny
During a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August 2020, someone poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a deadly nerve agent. This riveting documentary…
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No Simple Way Home
First-time filmmaker Akuol de Mabior examines the legacy of her father, John Garang de Mabior, revered as the founding father of South Sudan.











