Gianfranco Rosi • Italy • 2008
Roughly 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles, in the wild desert of Southern California, is ad hoc town without electricity or running water. Some denizens are just passing through, others are here to stay. While disparate circumstances have brought them here, all have turned their backs on society, wishing only to be left alone.
Filmed over the course of five years, Below Sea Level offers a glimpse inside a ragtag colony of flatland squatters. Gianfranco Rosi's second documentary premiered at IDFA; Cinéma du Réel, where it won Best Film; and Venice , where it won Best Documentary in Orizzonti.
Richard Press • 2010 • USA
Richard Press' gentle and moving portrait of the celebrated street-fashion photographer doubles as a study on the changing city itself.
Tania Cypriano • USA • 2020
New York's Mount Sinai Hospital houses the groundbreaking Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, a mecca for quality gender-affirming care. Here Dr. Jess Ting works with transgender and non-binary patients to navigate their own particular journeys—Cashmere, lon...
Göran Hugo Olsson • 2016 • Finland
Narrated by Lauryn Hill, Concerning Violence boldly interrogates legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and racism in arguments against the African liberation movement, while dismantling facile dichotomies regarding Fanon's political thought.
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