@filmlinc.bsky.social SAPIRO VS FORD: THE JEW WHO SUED HENRY FORD – Aaron Sapiro’s words embodied by actor Ben Shenkman, dir Gaylen Ross brings us history we never learned in school about U.S.’s #1 antisemite brought down by leader of cooperative farmers 1/28 w/Q&A www.filmlinc.org/films/sapiro...

@filmlinc.bsky.social NY Jewish Film Fest FRONTIER Catalan director Judith Colell explores complexities of other side of Pyrenees (looming by DP Andreu Adam Rubiralta) in 1943 – in Franco’s Nazi ally Spain who would help Jewish refugees? 1/27 via @MenemshaFilms Now? www.filmlinc.org/films/fronti...

@filmlinc.bsky.social NY Jewish Film Fest: Director Tom Shoval and twin Eitan Cunio find intense irony and revelations in auditions, outtakes, background from YOUTH (2014) co-starring David with brother kidnapped 10/7/23. Go2Films version w/o update, but 1/26 w/Q&A www.filmlinc.org/films/a-lett...

@filmlinc.bsky.social NY Jewish Films eats vicariously w/Tomer Heymann’s ORNA AND ELLA his exhausted friends close 26 yr Tel Aviv cafe; Emily Lobsenz visits different ages & immigrants make varied soup recipes A BIT OF EVERYTHING & MATZOH BALLS TOO 1/25, 1/27 w/Q&As www.filmlinc.org/films/orna-a...

@filmlinc.bsky.social NY Jewish Film revives OUT OF EXILE: PHOTOGRAPHY OF FRED STEIN (2021) directed & co-stars his son Peter & D-I-L Dawn Freer tracks Fred’s oeuvre from 1930s Europe to making it to US w/his partner wife Lilo thru posthumous recognition 1/25 w/Q&A www.filmlinc.org/films/out-of...

@filmlinc.bsky.social NY Jewish Film Fest ALONG THE RIVER Dir Gerburg Rohde-Dahl documents 1st post 10/7/23 “trialogue” after 20 yrs of FRIENDSHIP ACROS BORDERS w/Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans, mostly young. Participant reactions are frank & raw. 1/22 w/Q&A www.filmlinc.org/films/along-...

@filmlinc.bsky.social NY Jewish Film Fest Debut writer/director Anat Malz’s charming REAL ESTATE (aka ”A Love Story") with irresistible gig-economy preggers couple Victoria Rosovsky and Leib Lev Levin apt-hunting from noisy Tel Aviv to hilly Haifa w/Q&A via Go2Films www.filmlinc.org/films/real-e...

@filmlinc.bsky.social NY Jewish Films Dir Abby Ginzberg LABORS OF LOVE: LIFE AND LEGACY OF HENRIETTA SZOLD reveals her family’s surprising connection that turned a scholar into whirlwind to save Palestine/Israel children's lives w/pleas for shared peace 1/20 w/Q&A www.filmlinc.org/films/labors...

BlueSky @filmlinc.bsky.social NY Jewish Films MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER journo/daughter/debut dir @marisafox.bsky.social reveals her mother’s hidden Holocaust experience w/ignored brutality vs 5K+ girls in Nazi slave camps & from Russian liberators+ 1/19, 1/20 w/Q&As www.filmlinc.org/films/my-und...

Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz’s MALDORER enmeshes audience in inspired by true crime/police/judiciary scandal of 1990’s Belgium through the eyes of an obsessed, redemption-seeking new cop (darkly by DP Manu Dacosse) @filmmovement.bsky.social filmmovement.com/product/mald...

@angelstudio.bsky.social viscerally brings the anguish and desperation of 5 different past Syrian+ migrant families to mainstream US audiences with activist/filmmaker Brandt Andersen’s I WAS A STRANGER to generate sympathy for other asylum-seeking migrants today www.angel.com/watch/i-was-...

Writer/Director/Star Albert Birney’s OBEX is fond nostalgia for 1987 computer nerds discovering 1st participatory fantasy game (and those who lived with them, I know 1st hand). Via @Oscilloscope Now @ifccenter.bsky.social w/Q&As Next Week SF LA Cambridge OH CO more obex.oscilloscope.net/obex-site/

Dardenne Brothers' realistic YOUNG MOTHERS Belgium Oscar entry Which of 5 naïve teens will cope w/babies even w/social welfare support, romance, drugs, their mothers have big impacts @musicboxfilms.com Now NYC @ifccenter.bsky.social LA 1/16 Chicago & Seattle+ www.musicboxfilms.com/film/young-m...

ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU – Jordan’s Oscar entry pick - writer/director/star Cherien Dabis with Bakris father/sons epic portrait of multi-generational Palestine as victims to very sad music @watermelon_pics Opens 1/9 NY @AngelikaFilmNY LA w/Q&As SF More 1/15 www.watermelonpictures.com/films/all-th...

Chinese Wr/dir Johnny Ma’s THE MOTHER AND THE BEAR is empathetic cross-cultural, cross-generational, cross-climate, cross-gender “while You Were Sleeping” @dekanalog.body.social Bring parent for discount thru 1/7 @ifccenter www.ifccenter.com/films/the-mo...

THE CHORAL writer Alan Bennett & dir Nicholas Hytner find a fresh way to reveal small town Britain in 1916 amidst Great War with Ralph Fiennes amidst classic and young talents Now NYC @angelikafilmny & LA @laemmle_royal Nationally 1/16 @sonyclassics.bsky.social www.sonyclassics.com/film/thechor...

DAVID: Visually colorful animation, a somewhat international voice-acted cast belting out catchy but too short tunes in overly simplified Children’s Bible Story through a Christian perspective via Angel Studios My review: mavensnest.net/David.html www.angel.com/movies/david

The passing of guitarist/bedrock of Stax Steve Cropper (RIP) reminded me: his "Green Onions" was one of the first 45s I ever bought - 3 for $1 sale at Acme in Little Falls, NJ. [With Phil Spector's Crystals' "He's A Rebel"(by Gene Pitney) & Motown's Mary Wells' "You Beat Me To The Punch" by Smokey]

TALE OF SILYAN Native Macedonia dir Tamara Kotevska flies w/generations of symbiotic storks & farmers torn by economics finding temp peace in folk tale w/local instruments N Macedon Oscar entry @natgeodocs.bsky.social 11/28 @ifccenter.bsky.social 12/5+: films.nationalgeographic.com/the-tale-of-...

REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND Belgian wr/dir Hélène Cattet 4th collab w/Bruno Forzani is dizzying fast sports car romp of satirizing European James Bond imitations Pan- European cast is all-in the violent fun @shudder.com Showcase @ifccenter.bsky.social Streams 12/5 www.ifccenter.com/films/reflec...

See Huang Xi’s NYC/Taiwan DAUGHTER'S DAUGHTER for proder/star SYLVIA CHANG’s multi-faceted performance as a reluctant, sandwich-generation matriarch Now @metrographnyc.bsky.social w/Taiwanese “Like Mother/Like Daughter” series thru 12/12 Via @dekanalog.bsky.social www.dekanalog.com/films/daught...

WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED Inspired by family history, wr/dir Pierre Saint Martin's debut personalizes generational trauma from gov’t violence in intensity & aged body of Luisa Huertas. Mexico's Oscar entry now @cinemavillage , Houston + 2026 @cinematropical.com www.cinematropical.com/new-events/u...

SECRET AGENT Kleber Mendonça Filho @metrographnyc.bsky.social retrospective follows Wagner Moura as widowed dad dodging corruption, murder, urban legends, Carnivale (DP Evgenia Alexandrova) 1977 Recife, Brazil Opens 11/26 @filmlinc.bsky.social 12/5 L.A. then nat’l www.neonrated.com/film/the-sec...

CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS dirs Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni embed w/Azers NW Iran village over yrs (w/gov’t harassment) to track unconventional woman leader/organizer vs traditions limits young & old females @filmforumnyc.bsky.social 12/5 SF @roxie LA @laemmle www.gandomproduction.com/cutting-thro...

@docnycfest.bsky.social Kurdish-Iraqi-Norwegian director Zaradasht Ahmed returns to the cradle of civilization Mosul post-ISIS to reveal passionately different views on how THE LIONS BY THE RIVER TIGRIS can be preserved - any post-war heritage Streams now thru 11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/the-lio...

@docnycfest.bsky.social STREET SMART: LESSONS FROM A TV ICON Director Ernie Bustamante gets Sonia Manzano frankly talking about her life before, during & after she became the beloved “Maria” on & writing “Sesame Street” w/classic archival moments Streams now -11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/street-...

@docnycfest.bsky.social AGE OF WATER Co-Dirs Isabel Alcantara Atalaya & Alfredo Alcántara capture community stresses on 3 mothers in Central Mexico turn grief into activism vs their town Powers That Be re:H2O 11/20 w/Q&A streams 11/21-11/30 @povdocumentary.bsky.social www.docnyc.net/film/the-age...

@docnycfest.bsky.social Y VÂN: LOST SOUNDS OF SAIGON Co-Dir/Narrator Khoa Ha searches her family, cultural & social history of Vietnam to find, document & restore pop music legacy of her composer, arranger, producer, guitarist grandfather 11/18 w/Q&A streams to 11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/y-van-t...

@docnycfest.bsky.social Georgian debut dir Ketevan Vashagashvili updates her short film abt a devoted homeless mother decade later to health risks she’ll take w/9-MONTH CONTRACT to provide for her pride & joy daughter of independence 11/18 w/Q&A Streams 11/17-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/9-month...

@docnycfest.bsky.social Swiss Dir Leigh Iacobucci’s camera there as singer Zere Asylbek turns her online music video for A FREE DAUGHTER OF FREE KYRGYZSTAN into activism by courts and in demonstrations despite thugs, threats & arrests 11/17 w/Q&A Now streaming -11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/a-free-...

@docnycfest.bsky.social THE LAST AMBASSADOR is Manizha Bakhtari in Vienna blasting Afghanistan’s gender apartheid to international community that enabled Taliban, followed closely by Austrian dir Natalie Halla to not ignore/forget Afghan Females Streams now to 11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/the-las...

@docnycfest.bsky.social PALESTINE COMEDY CLUB In Part 1: Director Alaa Aliabdallah brings together and documents male & female comics from Beit Awaa, Golan Heights, Haifa, Hebron, Jenin & Ramallah on 1st ever tour. Changes in Pt 2: post-10/7/23. Streams now to 11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/palesti...

@docnycfest.bsky.social THE PINK PILL: SEX, DRUGS & WHO HAS CONTROL Dir Aisling Chin-Yee & entrepreneur @cindypinkceo Cindy Eckert expose how stubbornly biased FDA/HHS were about women’s health even pre-current administration 11/15 & 11/18 w/Q&As Streams 11/16-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/the-pin...

@docnycfest.bsky.social A PLACE OF ABSENCE Debut director Marialuisa Ernst personally exposes the human side of US policies in Latin American invisible to US public: family heartaches for thousands missing 11/15, 11/17 w/Q&As Streams 11/16-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/a-place...

@docnycfest.bsky.social Directors Jennifer Ash Rudick & Amanda M. Benchely present 3 screenings of PRETTY DIRTY: LIFE & TIMES OF MARILYN MINTER on 11/20 w/Q&As Streams 11/21-11/30 bio, photos, montages 5 decades of female gaze art to “My best work is yet to come” www.docnyc.net/film/pretty-...

@docnycfest.bsky.social Finnish director Sami van Ingen’s deep dive into his family archive is a revelation of VIP cinema history: how his GGF Robert Flaherty’s legacy hides his GGM Frances’, daughters’ & brother’s work on famous films 11/15 w/Q&A Streams 11/16-1/30 www.docnyc.net/film/cast-of...

@docnycfest.bsky.social I DREAMED HIS NAME (Soñé su nombre) Colombian dir Ángela Carabalí emotionally stirs thru 30 yrs of violence & political strife w/her sister to spiritually connect to their "disappeared" activist father’s farm & indigenous community organizing www.docnyc.net/film/i-dream...

@docnycfest.bsky.social REGGAE GIRLZ Directors Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Trish Dalton get audience rooting for determined Jamaica women’s football team on/off pitch @cedellamarley Exec Producer @PolygramEnt releasing soundtrack w/Q&A 11/14; 11/17 Streams 11/15-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/reggae-...

@docnycfest.bsky.social TRUE NORTH Dir Michèle Stephenson matches Canada+ archives w/witnesses: “Took me 35 yrs to reconcile pieces of my life so I could talk to you like this without tearing up” Q&A 11/16 11/19 Streams 11/17-11/30 Independent Lens Firelight Media www.docnyc.net/film/true-no...

@docnycfest.bsky.social THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN: JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE PRICE OF TRUTH Director Eugene Jarecki goes day by year by continent by whistleblower for revelations & sense 11/16 & 11/18 w/Q&As Streams 11/17-11/30 Then theaters @watermelon_pics www.docnyc.net/film/the-six...

@docnycfest.bsky.social A THOUSAND COLORS Debut director Nadia Louis-Desmarchais emotionally explores impact of her Haitian-Quebecois heritage, inter-racial adoption, and appearances with siblings and other mixed-race women 11/13 & 11/15 w/Q&As, Streams 11/15-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/a-thous...

@docnycfest.bsky.social Debut Brazilian dir Jade Rainho immerses us in THE GARDEN OF MARIA reclaimed Atlantic Forest from Sao Paulo dump by Guarani Mbya matriarch, family to lead shaman rituals of spiritual repair for next gen leaders 11/15 w/Q&A, Streams 11/16-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/the-gar...

@DOCNYCfest Directors Dena Fisher & Amy Scott embed w/ charismatic carpenter Shelley Halstead SAVING ETTING STREET 1 house at time, 1 Black woman homeowner a time trained in building & $ skills w/ Black Women Build Baltimore 11/16, 11/18 w/Q&As Streams 11/17-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/saving-...

@docnycfest.bsky.social Visit CREEDE U.S.A. w/director Kahane Corn Cooperman: 300 people, up 8,852 ft in CO Rockies, from 1892 silver boom to 57 yrs of summer theater (co-founded w/Patinkins) shakes up daily lives and perceptions 11/17 w/Q&As, 11/19, Streams 11/18- 30 www.docnyc.net/film/creede-...

@DOCNYCfest 1st indep Midwife Ctr I had 2 babies closed, now they ARREST THE MIDWIFE! Director Elaine Epstein follows upstate NY Plain People community organize for licensing bill @POVdocs 11/18 Q&A w/dir & arrested midwives; 11/20 Q&A w/dir & attny Streams 11/19-30 www.docnyc.net/film/arrest-...

@DOCNYCfest ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Director/Neighbor Katie Jacobs intimately profiles artist/moms Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid, Louise Kruger & families in their Bowery house-share from 1950’s on. 11/14 Q&A w/filmers & artists 11/20 Q&A w/filmers Streams 11/15-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/artists...

@DOCNYCfest ZELENSKY French documentarian Yves Jeuland, journalist Ariane Chemin & historian Lisa Vapné bring us “Volodia - This is your Life!” with his own commentary on extensive clips, photos, & interviews 11/15 & 11/17 w/Q & A's Streams 11/16-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/zelensky/

@DOCNYCfest TRACES OF HOME Debut director Colette Ghunim takes her Mexican mom & Palestinian dad on emotional searches for their roots and her inherited trauma @watermelon_pics @CinemaTropical @kartemquinfilms.bsky.social 11/14 & 11/15 w/Q&As Streams 11/15-11/30 www.docnyc.net/film/traces-...

LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN Debut French animation dirs/writers Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han magically get inside head & emotions of bi-cultural toddler from Amélie Nothomb’s narrated novel of her childhood in Japan @GKIDSfilms Now in theaters French & Eng dub gkids.com/films/little...

PUT YOUR SOUL..Fr-Iran dir Sepideh Farsi interviews & features witness views of Gaza photog Fatma Hassona 2024 - 2025 Now @IFCCenter w/Q&As 11/13 @docnycfest.bsky.social Short List w/Q&A @kinolorber.com www.ifccenter.com/films/put-yo... www.docnyc.net/film/put-you... kinolorber.com/film/put-you...