Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image
A documentary about body image and the industry leaders challenging society’s unrealistic and dangerous standards of beauty.
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Genre: Documentary
Director: Jenny McQuaile
Actors: Christian Siriano, Danielle Brooks, Denise Bidot, Emme, Iskra Lawrence, Tess Holliday, Tim Gunn
Escaping Captivity: The Kara Robinson Story
Kara Robinson Chamberlain recounts in vivid detail being taken at gun point from a friend’s front yard. Forced into in a cramped, dark storage container in her captor’s car, Kara…
The End and the Beginning
A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands in search of people with stories to…
The Méliès Mystery
A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-American collaboration between Lobster Films, the National…
Sam Kinison: Banned
Sam Kinison live at the Felt Forum, 2/14/89. Also has opening act Carl Labove plus Sam’s 3 MTV videos.
Angle
Kurt Angle tells the tale of his journey from humble beginnings in Pittsburgh to Olympic Gold Medalist and WWE Hall of Famer; Angle, his family and his friends share their…
A Pebble in the Pond
A joyful documentary spotlighting a non profit, founded by an innovative woman, that has been changing lives for over 125 years.
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most controversial photographer…
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.
A Man Returned
Reda is 26 years old. His dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh ended in failure after three years trapped in Greece. He returned with a heroin…
Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance
A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West. It recalls a time when art was larger and more important than life itself. On one side, there…
The Dying of the Light
Loving documentary about the invisible hand that brings light in the cinema: the projectionist. Momentarily, his booth is at the centre of this film, which primarily looks back on the…
Cries from Syria
An attempt to re-contextualize the European migrant crisis and ongoing hostilities in Syria, through eyewitness and participant testimony. Children and parents recount the revolution, civil war, air strikes, atrocities and…
