Though the film feels too smart and too busy for its own good at times, the story remains fascinating (though troubling), and the cinematography always striking.
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Robert Greene; Stars: Fernando Serrano, Laurie McKenna, Ray Family, Mike Anderson, Graeme Family, Richard Hodges)
Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorities.
(Year: 2018; Director: Stephen Maing)
World premiere
Dark Money
"Dark money" contributions, made possible by the US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, flood modern American elections – but Montana is showing Washington DC how to solve the problem of unlimited anonymous money in politics.
Unravelling one of the biggest environmental scandals of our time, a group of citizens in West Virginia take on a powerful corporation after they discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic chemical - now found in the blood of 99.7 per cent of Americans - into the local drinking water supply.
Ashby's daughter Leigh MacManus is one of the few contributors to offer an off-set perspective of the man - and it comes with a poignancy and beat of heartfelt truth that is lacking elsewhere.
Portrait of the director of Harold And Maude.
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Amy Scott; Stars: Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Rosanna Arquette, Judd Apatow, Adam McKay, Alexander Payne, Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, David O Russell, Louis Gossett Jr., Hal Ashby, Norman Jewison, Caleb Deschanel)
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By looking at what would lie outside of the traditional framework of most documentaries, Ross builds a much more absorbing picture of people fully embedded within an environment.
An exploration of coming-of-age in the Black Belt of the American South.
There is also no mistaking the challenge to us, the viewers, regarding our own awareness of where products come from and our, albeit unwitting, culpability in child exploitation.
Portrait of Kailash Satyarthi, who has made it his life's work to end child slavery and exploitation.
Now one of the world’s most celebrated artists, Yayoi Kusama broke free of the rigid society in which she was raised, and overcame sexism, racism, and mental illness to bring her artistic vision to the world stage. At 88 she lives in a mental hospital and continues to create art.
A cinematic portrait of a small town stock car track and the tribe of drivers that call it home as they struggle to hold onto an American racing tradition. The avant-garde narrative explores the community and its conflicts through an intimate story that reveals the beauty, mystery and emotion of grassroots auto racing.
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Michael Dweck; Writer: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw; Stars: Tim Mulqueen, George Muse, Larry Oxman, Jim Cromarty, Ed Mistretta, Bob Finan, Tommy Walkowiak, Mike Cappiello, Bob Woodford, Marty Berger, C.J. Zakowski, Charlie Zakowski, Tom Pickerell, Rick Todd, Mildy Thomas)
Few artists are ever willing to let their audiences get this close to their unrevised selves.
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
The film follows Nadia at a time when support for her cause is growing, though she still has very little in the way of personal support.
A Yazidi genocide and ISIS sexual slavery survivor, 23-year-old Nadia Murad is determined to tell the world her story. As her journey leads down paths of advocacy and fame, she becomes the voice of her people and their best hope to spur the world to action.
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Alexandria Bombach; Writer: Hishyar Abid, Nawaf Ashur, Deniz Ekici, Yousif Haskan, Shahnaz Osso; Stars: Nadia Murad, Murad Ismael, Amal Clooney, Ki-moon Ban, Nadia Murad, Murad Ismael, Amal Clooney, Ki-moon Ban)
With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a funhouse mirror up to our values and our times – where everything can be bought and sold.
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the US and keep her in the spotlight.
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Sophie Sartain, Roberta Grossman)
World premiere
The Sentence
Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy's brother, follows her and her family over the course of ten years.
The surprises just keep coming in Tim Wardle's documentary, which starts in the realm of the remarkable and is likely to leave jaws dropped by record proportions by the time the credits roll.
The story of the reunion of three triplets, who discover a disturbing secret about why they were separated in the first place.
