In a quest to challenge his own greatest achievements and refresh the identity of his world-renowned restaurant, chef René Redzepi relocates his Copenhagen-based Noma to Tokyo for a 6-week serving session, where cultures collide and culinary creativity climbs masterful mountains.
THE FEAR OF 13 is a psychological thriller, where Nick, a death row inmate, petitions the court to be executed. As he goes on to tell his story, it gradually becomes clear that nothing is quite what it seems. His story has all the twists and turns of classic crime drama with a final shocking twist casts everything in a new light.
Beginning at the height of their success, Tora Mkandawire Mårtens’s MARTHA & NIKI delves into the world of competitive dance culture while exploring the emotional complexities of a coming-of-age female friendship and the cultural cost of international immigration to stunning effect.
Though the iron odds are stacked high against her, 18-year-old Sonita – an Afghan refugee in Iran – fights to make her dream of breaking the code of silence around child marriage through the tool of rap music a reality. Watch her roar.
When Body Image Activist Taryn Brumfitt posted an unconventional before-and-after photo in 2013 it was seen by more than 100 million people worldwide and sparked an international media frenzy. EMBRACE follows Taryn’s crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies.
Following the award-winning short film of the same name, the feature version of NOTES ON BLINDNESS documents John Hull’s extraordinary journey into “a world beyond sight,” utilizing his own audio material and a creatively inspired take on the documentary medium in order to understand his transition to blindness.
AMERICAN RECYCLED follows brothers Tim and Noah Hussin as they bicycle 5,000 miles across the U.S. South over a period of two years, in a wildly poetic yet personally intimate experiment into scaling down, relocalizing, and connecting to community and land.
TICKLED follows journalist David Farrier as he stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot for other filmmakers and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her.
At a Swedish detention center, asylum seekers await their fate as staff members struggle to find a balance between the strict rules of their workplace and their empathetic impulses. With great sensibility to its characters and environment, DETAINED depicts the psychological stresses faced in modern detention centers and questions this crucial, global phenomenon.
America makes up 5% of the world’s population, yet locks up 25% of the world’s prisoners. 40% are black men. 13TH gives an in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.
Lotje Sodderland journeys into her own mind to recover and rehabilitate after a hemorrhagic stroke leaves her unable to communicate. As a means of remedial aegis, she began to document her rapidly changing life with her iPhone, and shortly thereafter she asked filmmaker Sophie Robinson to help document her recovery.
