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1983
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1983
Directed by Adla Massoud
Four decades after surviving the 1983 US Embassy bombing in Beirut — one of only two people to…
American Indie Spotlight
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Cinema For Students Program
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Human Rights Spotlight
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Human Ties
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Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight
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Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition
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QFest LGBTQ Spotlight
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Race In America: The Black Experience
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Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition
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Women In Film Spotlight
And Again I Dream
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And Again I Dream
Directed by Catherine Gund, Mariah Norman
Ivy Young (1947-2023), a journalist and organizer, knows that mainstream society will not preserve her story after she's…
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Cinema For Students Program
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Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition
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Race In America: The Black Experience
Born Secret
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Born Secret
Directed by Riley Fitchpatrick
A filmmaker returns to his hometown, Oak Ridge, the secret city that built the atomic bomb. There, he…
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Human Rights Spotlight
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Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight
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Race In America: The Black Experience
Brothers in Blood: Black in Vietnam
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Brothers in Blood: Black in Vietnam
Directed by Joseph Puleo
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Black Americans fought two wars, one in Vietnam and one at home…
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Cinema For Students Program
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Human Rights Spotlight
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Human Ties
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Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition
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Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition
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The Immigrant Experience
Come to See Me at Oglala
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Come to See Me at Oglala
Directed by Mary Heather Carver, William T. Horner
This is a 1987 interview of William Horn Cloud, a renowned traditional Oglala Lakota singer, historian, philosopher, and…
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Human Rights Spotlight
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Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition
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Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition
High Times
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High Times
Directed by Jack Moseley
High Times traces the outlaw ambition of Tom Forcade, a rebel publisher who turned risk into revolution when…
American Indie Spotlight
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ARCHIVAL
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Cinema For Students Program
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Human Rights Spotlight
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Human Ties
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Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight
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Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition
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The Immigrant Experience
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Women In Film Spotlight
Landscapes of Memory
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Landscapes of Memory
Directed by Leah Galant
Landscapes Of Memory follows Leah Galant's journey through Germany as she reckons with family trauma and the weight…
Animation Spotlight
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Cinema For Students Program
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Fine Arts Spotlight
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Human Ties
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Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition
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Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition
Let’s All Go to the Lobby: The Story of Filmack Studios
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Let’s All Go to the Lobby: The Story of Filmack Studios
Directed by Justin Atkinson
Robbie Mack, the third-generation owner of Filmack Studios, takes us behind the scenes of the world’s oldest producer…
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Human Ties
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Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition
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Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition
Oh Whale
Film
Oh Whale
Directed by Winslow Crane-Murdoch
When news anchor Paul Linnman arrived in Florence OR on November 12th, 1970, he had no idea that…
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Human Rights Spotlight
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Human Ties
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Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition
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Women In Film Spotlight
The Dark Knot at the Center
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The Dark Knot at the Center
Directed by Inês Pedrosa e Melo
Drawing from an archive of letters written in the 1960s, the film reimagines women's clandestine journeys from across…
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Cinema For Students Program
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Fine Arts Spotlight
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Human Ties
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Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight
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Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition
The Last Picture Shows
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The Last Picture Shows
Directed by Rustin Thompson
Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a…
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Human Rights Spotlight
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International Spotlight
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Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight
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Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition
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The Immigrant Experience
Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel
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Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel
Directed by Dominic Howlett, James Dann
Theodor Herzl is one of the most consequential figures in modern history; yet almost no one knows his…