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FILM LIBRARY
ALL editions, films by category (1035)
DOCUMENTARY
RISKI
Dir: Otto Reuschel, Germany, 12 min, 2017, Documentary
Along with dozens of other young Moroccan boys between 8 and 18 years old, Mohammed lives on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the port of Meli... more »
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RUDY'S HOBBY SHOP
Dir: Jason Guzman, United States, 5 min, 2017, Documentary
Marvin Cochran, owner of Rudy's Hobby & Art in Astoria Queens, let's us have a glimpse at the day-to-day in this once ice cream parlor, turned hobby... more »
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RULE OF NATURE
Dir: Dieter Primig, Namibia, 25 min, 2017, Documentary
Adapt or die? Following a young woman female tribe member of the only few remaining indigenous bushmen of Namibia, we get a uniquely personal and dr... more »
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TEMPO RUBATO
Dir: Noelia Santos, United States, 19 min, 2016, Documentary
‘Tempo Rubato' depicts the creative origins and rhythmic roots of a new jazz composition by the acclaimed New York-based Colombian percussionist and... more »
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TERRAZA 7
Dir: Carlos Freire, United States, 12 min, 2017, Documentary
Terraza 7 is a bar located in Jackson Heights, New York. It opened its doors in 2002, always with the promise of bringing us a show case of differen... more »
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THE FOURTH KINGDOM
Dir: Alex Lora, Adan Aliaga , Spain, 14 min, 2017, Documentary
The Fourth Kingdom is the kingdom of plastics, a redemption center in NY for immigrants and underdogs where the American Dream becomes possible inde... more »
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THE OTHER SIDE
Dir: Griselda San Martin, Spain, 5 min, 2016, Documentary
Just like every other weekend at Friendship Park, dozens of people have come to meet and greet one another on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border f... more »
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THREE RED SWEATERS
Dir: Martha Gregory, United States, 8 min, 2017, Documentary
A filmmaker explores memory and the way that we use technology to record our lives - sometimes at the expense of being present for them - through he... more »
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4 BED, 4 1/2 BATH
Dir: Amanda Katz, United States, 10 min, 2016, Documentary
Sudden divorce spurs a newly single Marjorie to sell her family home of 35 years. We move through, room by room, in this newly made intermediate zon... more »
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A WALK TO FREEDOM
Dir: Dan Pearson, United States, 30 min, 2016, Documentary
Donna Hylton's first person interview about the childhood abuse she endured, the spiral of events that lead to her incarceration, and how she learne... more »
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CHRIST/EL
Dir: Andreas Grützner, Germany, 9 min, 2016, Documentary
A family portrait told through Super8 footage and old tapes from 1975-77. In it's essence the question about belief. A boy and his dilemma to stand... more »
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HERR VON BOHLEN
Dir: Andre Schaefer, Germany, 90 min, 2015, Documentary
The film tells the story of the last offspring of a powerful German family, whose cannons killed countless people in two world wars: Arndt von Bohle... more »
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LATE BLOSSOM BLUES
Dir: Wolfgang Pfoser-Almer & Stefan Wolner, Austria, 89 min, 2017, Documentary
A 1932-born hard-working poor black man from the Mississippi backwoods who becomes an internationally acclaimed Blues star after he releases his deb... more »
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NO HUMAN INVOLVED
Dir: Pj Starr, United States, 75 min, 2016, Documentary
In 2009 after she was sentenced to more than two years imprisonment for prostitution, Marcia Powell was locked in a metal cage in the desert sun at... more »
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NOT BLACK ENOUGH
Dir: Tracey Anarella, United States, 82 min, 2015, Documentary
A Film by Tracey Anarella Not Black Enough is a film about class warfare and the cross-tides that African-Americans are dealing with within the bl... more »
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OVER OCEANS
Dir: Lisa Tan, United States, 15 min, 2016, Documentary
In 2015 an interracial couple remembers their courtship and marriage two years before the US Supreme Court ruled the ban on interracial marriage unc... more »
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PROJECT BAYGANDA
Dir: Montaigne Massac, United States, 60 min, 2016, Documentary
Project BayGanda is a documentary about Bay Area fashion designer Erica Varize's ( "Evarize" ) 10 plus year youth program the "Sew What Sewing Camp"... more »
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RAISIN/ROSEDALE
Dir: Sandy Chase, United States, 21 min, 2016, Documentary
Segregation in New York City affects people of different races and income levels in deeply personal ways. In Rosedale, Queens in the 1970s, for exa... more »
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THE DROVER'S BOY
Dir: Margaret McHugh, Australia, 11 min, 2014, Documentary
The Drover's Boy is an award-winning hybrid documentary set in the 1920s outback Australia, which recalls a time when it was illegal for white Austr... more »
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THE FISHERMAN
Dir: Anoah Levine, United States, 5 min, 2016, Documentary
Queens, New York is often described as the most diverse borough in New York City. Within this borough exists two conflicting worlds: the loud, fast... more »
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THE PROMISE
Dir: Zeljko Mirkovic, Serbia, 74 min, 2016, Documentary
A century ago Rogljevo was incredibly prosperous for a remote village in far eastern corners of Serbia. The wines of Rogljevo were to be found at ex... more »
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THOU ART: DUBLIN
Dir: Camille Wainer, Ireland, 56 min, 2016, Documentary
Thou Art: Dublin is a documentary that attempts to paint an intimate portrait of the creative life of Dublin. Set in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, the... more »
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TO SERVE AND PROTECT?
Dir: Gandhi Brigade Youth Media, United States, 7 min, 2016, Documentary
We see it all over the media, but excessive use of force by police isn't new. We've known about the killings of men, women, and children of color to... more »
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UNDOCUMENTED
Dir: Patricia Shih, United States, 72 min, 2016, Documentary
A documentary produced by first-time filmmaker Patricia Shih, written from the autobiographical book by the subject Dr. Harold Fernandez. A compelli... more »
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VIRIATO
Dir: Gabriel Stanger Martins, Spain, 10 min, 2016, Documentary
A portrait of the spanish society and of a culture that has been taken down and it couldn't get up anymore, living generation after generation, the... more »
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AFTER THE FAIR
Dir: Ryan Ritchey, United States, 102 min, 2014, Documentary
In 1964, the world gathered in Queens. People came together and demonstrated technology, ideas, and cultures that continue to influence our lives to... more »
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BIG VOICE
Dir: Varda Bar-Kar, United States, 83 min, 2015, Documentary
BIG VOICE chronicles a year in the life of a determined public high school choir director who overcomes challenges to push his students to achieve... more »
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BOULEVARD'S END
Dir: Nora Fingscheidt, United States, 15 min, 2015, Documentary
At the end of Washington Boulevard, where Los Angeles’ streets merge into the ocean, the Venice Pier begins. The rough concrete pier braves Pacific... more »
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COMING AND GOING
Dir: Tianlin Xu, United States, 89 min, 2015, Documentary
Two orphaned teenage brothers leave their remote mountain village behind to seek their fortune in two separate major cities. Meanwhile, their young... more »
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CUBICLES
Dir: Riz Nasim, Canada, 21 min, 2015, Documentary
'Cubicles' depicts the issue of child labor escalating due to poverty, lack of education, unavailability of government support and so on. In develop... more »
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HANKA'S TATTOO
Dir: Elaine Vedette Tack, United States, 15 min, 2015, Documentary
Seventy five years after his mother was branded at Auschwitz, a New York City Doctor gets his mothers tattoo and so does his 23 year old daughter. A... more »
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I AM HAITI
Dir: Raúl de la Fuente, Haiti, 66 min, 2014, Documentary
In Haiti, ancestors say if something is foretold, it will happen no matter how, and nobody can change that. Artist Celeur is inspired by his Voodoo... more »
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MY FATHER'S HOUSE
Dir: David Greenwald, United States, 29 min, 2015, Documentary
From his boyhood home in Queens to his father’s boyhood home in Eastern Europe, filmmaker David Greenwald takes you through a multi-generational jou... more »
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POMONOK DREAMS
Dir: Terry Katz, United States, 60 min, 2015, Documentary
It was just after World War II. Our boys were home from the war and starting families. Affordable housing was a priority, so the New York City Hous... more »
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REUNIFICATION
Dir: Alvin Tsang, United States, 85 min, 2015, Documentary
As he examines the legacy of his family’s immigration to Los Angeles from Hong Kong—fraught with vulnerabilities and betrayal and splintered with ec... more »
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THE LADIES
Dir: Tyler Zoanni, United States, 13 min, 2015, Documentary
For 50 years, a group of Ukrainian women has gathered in New York's East Village to make dumplings for their church. This observational short offers... more »
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YOU SEE ME
Dir: Linda J. Brown, United States, 71 min, 2015, Documentary
Filmmaker Linda Brown's father embodied 1960s masculinity. But when a devastating stroke leaves him vulnerable and dependent, Linda decides to confr... more »
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AS YOU PASS BY
Dir: Georg Anthony Svatek, Amanda Katz, United States, 11 min, 2014, Documentary
The roads we erect and the cars we drive maximize our comfort and efficiency, but at what cost? As You Pass By commences an exploration of the Brook... more »
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COMIC BOOK HEAVEN
Dir: E.j. Mcleavey-Fisher, United States, 12 min, 2014, Documentary
This short documentary follows 81 year old Joe Leisner, owner of Comic Book Heaven in Sunnyside, Queens, NY as he cantankerously assesses the status... more »
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DESTINATION HOME
Dir: Maria Seppälä & Veera Lehto-Michaud, Finland, 45 min, 2014, Documentary
A Liberian refugee SAM REAYAH and his family have been separated for five years and live in uncertainty waiting for family reunion. While Sam and hi... more »
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MEMORY OF FORGOTTEN WAR
Dir: Deann Borshay Liem, Ramsay Liem, United States, 37 min, 2013, Documentary
Memory of Forgotten War conveys the human costs of military conflict through deeply personal accounts of the Korean War (1950-53) by four Korean-Ame... more »
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NOT NEW RUSSIANS
Dir: Abigail Spindel, Brazil, 28 min, 2014, Documentary
Dark scenes from Russia in 2004, that reveal the anger and despair of ordinary Russians who feel abandoned by the state infrastructure: Old pensione... more »
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SKIN FEELS
Dir: Daan Bunnik, Netherlands, 7 min, 2014, Documentary
In this observational diptych, the narrator, Daan Bunnik depicts the struggles of observing the ageing bodies of his parents. The part about his fat... more »
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STOP
Dir: Spencer Wolff, United States, 88 min, 2014, Documentary
The feature length documentary STOP follows three years in the life of David Ourlicht, one of the plaintiffs in Floyd v. City of New York, the clas... more »
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TRUTH HAS FALLEN
Dir: Sheila M. Sofian, United States, 60 min, 2013, Documentary
The documentary examines the cases of three individuals who were wrongfully incarcerated for murder and sheds light on weaknesses in the US justice... more »
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WE CAME TO SWEAT
Dir: Kate Kunath & Sasha Wortzel, United States, 71 min, 2014, Documentary
For fifty years the Starlite Lounge catered to every race, creed, and orientation. When this pre-Stonewall safe haven is ordered to vacate, the comm... more »
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