A film by Joseph Dorman & Toby Perl Freilich (104 min.)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan did not just live in the twentieth century, he strode across it: a colossus of ideas and a man of deeds. An influential senator, ambassador, policy specialist and intellectual, he embraced the complexity and contradictions of public policy without ever despairing of the role of government in the lives of its citizens.
Fifteen years after his death, as the nation sinks into hyper-partisanship, the first documentary about his life captures Moynihan as never before.
OPENS IN CHICAGO ON DECEMBER 21
INVISIBLE HANDS
A film by Shraysi Tandon (75 min.)
Produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson, Invisible Hands brings to light child labor and trafficking within the supply chains of the world's biggest companies. It is a harrowing account of children as young as 6 years old making the products we use every day.
Participants in the film include Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi; New York Times writer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof; and
journalist/investigator Ben Skinner.
OPENS IN NEW YORK NOV. 23 | OPENS IN LOS ANGELES NOV. 30
THAT WAY MADNESS LIES
A film by Sandra Luckow (101 min.)
What do you do when your brother descends into a black hole of mental instability – falling for a Nigerian email scam and winding up committed into the hospital made famous by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Filmmaker Sandra Luckow unflinchingly turns a camera on her own family as they attempt to to save their brother, whose iPhone video diary is an unfiltered look at the mind of a man with untreated schizophrenia as well as an indictment of how the system failed.
OPENS IN NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES ON DECEMBER 14
THE SECOND TIME AROUND
A film by Leon Marr (107 min.)
Katherine Mitchell, a widowed yet vibrant senior, wasn’t looking for love a second time – not at her age, and certainly not with grumpy Isaac Shapiro ... at a residence for seniors, no less!
But despite their age and despite their nosy neighbors, she and Isaac warm to each other over their shared love of music, and together they set out to fulfill Katherine’s lifelong dream of going to the opera in Milan.
Starring Linda Thorson and Stuart Margolin.
OPENS IN LOS ANGELES ON DECEMBER 14
ANOTE'S ARK
A film by Matthieu Rytz (77 min.)
One of the most remote places on the planet, the Pacific island nation of Kiribati is far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it now faces imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. President Anote Tong races to find options, from mass migration to building underwater cities.
With sweeping cinematography,Anote's Ark captures the shifting dynamics of climate change while crafting a portrait of the Kiribati people that reveals their strength and grace as they confront the looming waters.
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HOT TO TROT
A film by Gail Freedman (88 min.)
Mad Hot Ballroom meets Paris is Burning...or RuPaul's Drag
Race meets Dancing with the Stars. Whatever your reference is, the crowd-pleasing Hot to Trot provides a deep-dive look inside the fascinating but little-known world of same-sex competitive ballroom dance. Following four men and women on and off the dance floor over four years, this award-winning documentary is a powerful and celebratory story that unfurls with the rhythms and energy of dramatic cinema.
"Warm and involving. The dancing is stirring and impressive!" -Los Angeles Times
THE LOST VILLAGE
A film by Roger Paradiso (88 min.)
The Lost Village is a devastating expose of how Greenwich Village, the epicenter of the counterculture in the 1960s and '70s, is being turned into a wasteland of chain stores, banks and multi-million dollar condos.
The documentary follows filmmaker Roger Paradiso on a journey through today's Village as he tries to figure out how this 'gentrification on steroids' got started.Talking to journalists, activists, shop-owners, professors and more, he uncovers how the landlords, politicians andNYU turned the Village into a place that's losing its heart and soul.
RETURNS TO NEW YORK ON NOVEMBER 9
CUBAN FOOD STORIES
A film by Asori Soto (82 min.)
Filmmaker Asori Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood – a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba faced after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Soto road-trips
around the island, visiting regions so remote they're only accessible by raft or horseback. His adventure will leave your mouth watering as we rediscover the culinary roots of Cuba.
"Eye-opening and mouth-watering! Soto imbues his film with a hand-crafted charm that perfectly suits the stories and food." -Variety
