- 1/2 Revolution
A true-life thriller shot in Cairo during the Arab Spring brings us into the middle of the resistance
- Abendland
The latest from Nikolaus Geyrhalter, director of Our Daily Bread (2005): a secret tour of Europe after dark
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Shot over a period of years, this film follows Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei as he finds creative paths to rebellion against an oppressive system
- The Ambassador
Satirist and adventurer Mads Brügger (Red Chapel) shows how easy it is to become a diamond-smuggling African diplomat
- Argentinian Lesson
Romance blooms for a Polish boy in Argentina
- The Belovs
True Vision honoree Victor Kossakovsky’s first documentary immerses us in the lives of Russian farmers
- Building Babel
SNEAK PREVIEW The embattled developer of the Ground Zero mosque just wants to build a community center—so why all the fuss?
- Bully
2012 True Life Fund Film. Filmmaker Lee Hirsch makes the bullying epidemic in American schools intensely personal, demonstrating how, for some kids, mere survival can be a daily battle
- Canícula
SNEAK PREVIEW The tensions of tradition and modernity are explored in this look at the lives of the Totona people of Mexico
- Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Morgan Spurlock takes us inside the superhero, fantasy, & sci-fi spectacle that is the San Diego Comic Convention
- The Connection
Eight junkies in search of a fix
- Detropia
The directors of Jesus Camp find hazy beauty and tenacious locals in Motor City
- Going Up the Stairs
SNEAK PREVIEW An Iranian grandmother becomes and artist and gets her first solo show in Paris. But will her husband let her go?
- Gypsy Davy
Flamenco guitarist David Serva Jones left behind a clutch of wives, girlfriends, and children wherever he went—a group that includes Rachel Leah Jones, the director of this film
- Herman's House
SNEAK PREVIEW A former Black Panther, locked up in solitary confinement, is visited by a young artist who helps him design his dream house
- How to Survive a Plague
A powerful and poetic history of ACT UP, the activist group that changed the face of AIDS treatment
- The Imposter
In this nonfiction thriller, a missing Texas boy turns up in Spain. What happened?
- The Island President
Global warming may make the Maldives disappear, but can President Mohamed Nasheed save the day?
- Low & Clear
SNEAK PREVIEW Two friends fish and face off in this exquisitely shot film
- Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
An emotionally riveting portrait of the self-described “grandmother of performance art”
- Me @ The Zoo
A sexually ambiguous teen living in the rural South is saved by YouTube, but fame is a complicated thing
- Only the Young
SNEAK PREVIEW In the Southern California desert, this film discovers a potent blend of teenage urgency, boredom, and young love that adults misconstrue as aimless wandering
- The Queen of Versailles
Meet the family with the mostest: a couple that wants to build the biggest house in America
- Re:Vision (shorts)
Six filmmakers show that the past is not dead at all, but still flopping around.
- Searching for Sugar Man
Rodriguez’s music emboldened apartheid-era South Africa before he disappeared in a swirl of mystery
- Secret Screening Blue
A new kind of tangential journalism that acts as a fitting tribute to fellowship, friendship, and faith
- Secret Screening Gold
After falling from grace, a mercurial artist attempts to climb back to the top
- Secret Screening Green
A Situationist stunt turns one long-running pop cultural institution inside out
- Secret Screening Lavender
A jaw-dropping look at prejudice run amok
- Secret Screening Orange
A businessman with deep pockets says he can reopen a small-town factory—but can he be trusted?
- Secret Screening Purple
This boldly cinematic doc celebrates the American city like no one since Jane Jacobs
- Secret Screening Red
Big government tamps down dissent, but it might not be able to control these crafty heretics
- Summer of Giacomo
SNEAK PREVIEW For a couple of young Italians, summer is a never-ending, languid idyll
- These Birds Walk
Work in Progress. A mysterious, poetic look at a Pakistani home for orphans
- This Monkey's Gone to Heaven (shorts)
Inspired by the Pixies’ meditation on the divine (and toxic sludge), we spotlight eight shorts that illustrate a fragile hold on life
- Undefeated
A lumber salesman turned high-school footballcoach inspires inner-city teens to become contenders in this Oscar-nominated doc
- The Vanishing Spring Light
SNEAK PREVIEW An intimate portrait of a Chinese matriarch
- V/H/S
In this gory, entirely fictional horror film, hooligans break into a house looking for a valuable VHS tape
- ¡Vivan Las Antipodas!
Russian auteur and 2012 True Vision Award winner Victor Kossakovsky offers up a creative vision of planetary opposites
- The Waiting Room
SNEAK PREVIEW This fly-on-the-wall tour de force looks at the waiting room of an emergency room in Oakland, California