The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
This impressionistic, piercing essay reveals a prison-industrial complex tightly woven into the fabric of American life.
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The Other Side
Addiction, bigotry, and zealotry are set against the abiding love of family in the rubbed-raw intimacy of Roberto Minervini’s latest.
The Music of Strangers
Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble are on an uplifting mission to connect the world through music.
The Last Days of Winter
The precursor to Starless Dreams – seven young Iranian detainees spill their secrets and their passions to True Vision award winner Mehrdad Oskouei.
The Land of the Enlightened
A boy’s life, Afghani style, as a merry band of marauders extort, scavenge, and traverse a beautiful, bombed-out dreamscape.
The Killing of America (N/N)
A stunning, still-urgent call for the United States to disarm, The Killing of America presents a chilling procession of violence involving Jim Jones, Ted Bundy
The Illinois Parables
Archival and original 16mm footage mesh with visionary sound design, as the singular Deborah Stratman tells a counter-narrative to how the Midwest was won.
The Fear of 13
Death row inmate Nick Yarris has the presence and poise of a Shakespearean thespian. But can he be believed?
The Bad Kids
At an isolated, alternative high school, a firebrand principal tests the limits of tough love working with teenagers considered to be lost causes.