FANDANGO AT THE WALL
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA, Mexico | 93 min | Documentary
Director: Varda Bar-Kar
Producers: Kabir Sehgal, Doug Davis
Editor: Luisa María Martínez Arcaraz
FANDANGO AT THE WALL follows Multi Grammy Award winners Arturo O’Farrill and Kabir Sehgal, as they prepare to record a live album at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The project is inspired by the annual Fandango Fronterizo Festival, which unites people on both sides of the Tijuana-San Diego border. This festival features son jarocho, a 300-year-old folk music tradition. Before recording, festival organizer, Jorge Francisco Castillo, takes O’Farrill and Sehgal on a tour of Veracruz, Mexico, where this musical mixture of indigenous, Spanish, and African traditions originated. As they travel, they meet legendary son jarocho musicians such as Patricio Hidalgo, Fernando Guadarrama, Ramón Gutiérrez, Wendy Cao Romero, Tacho Utrera, Andrés Vega, Martha Vega, Yaratczé Hidalgo Sandoval — and recruit many of these artists for the upcoming festival. Their travels cumulate with the annual celebration, promoting peace and celebrating unity. From executive producers, Quincy Jones, Andrew Young, Carlos Santana, the film introduces the beautiful music of the region through intimate interviews and captivating concert footage.
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VINYL NATION
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 92 min | Documentary
Director: Kevin Smokler, Christopher Boone
The vinyl record renaissance over the past decade has brought new fans to a classic format and transformed our idea of a record collector: younger, both male and female, multicultural. This same revival has made buying music more expensive, benefited established bands over independent artists and muddled the question of whether vinyl actually sounds better than other formats.
Vinyl Nation digs into the crates of the record resurgence in search of truths set in deep wax: Has the return of vinyl made music fandom more inclusive or divided? What does vinyl say about our past here in the present? How has the second life of vinyl changed how we hear music and how we listen to each other?
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TURNING SCHOOL INSIDE OUT
Virtual Showing
2019 | USA | 20 min | Documentary
Director: Chris Hardee
TURNING SCHOOL INSIDE OUT is a documentary about what happens when one school purchases a parcel of adjacent land and commits itself to figure out how to use that land to improve student learning and well-being. Set in a rural southwestern New Hampshire town, the film follows teachers, administrators, parents, and community members as they transform the curriculum for Chesterfield School students in nearly every grade (K-8) by moving part of the instruction outside. The film captures faculty and community visioning sessions, teacher’s reflections on the value of using the natural world, parents’ support of outdoor learning, and students’ experiences on the land.
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LOCALLY ROOTED
Virtual Showing
2019 | USA | 10 min | Documentary
Director: Greg Pregent
Four farmers from the Monadnock Region in New Hampshire share their experiences from receiving money from the Farm Fund funded by the Monadnock Food Co-op and the Cheshire County Conservation District.
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CODED BIAS
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA, United Kingdom, China, South Africa | 90 min | Documentary
Director: Shalini Kantayya
Producer: Shalini Kantayya
When Joy Buolamwini’s makes the startling discovery that most facial recognition software does not accurately see dark-skinned faces or women, she is forced to reckon with bias encoded in algorithms, the invisible mathematical equations that are remaking our behavior, our culture, and our democracies. Coded Bias follows poet of code Joy Buolamwini’s journey to push for the first-ever legislation to govern AI in the United States. But can the best of our humanity challenge the power of big tech yielding bias in artificial intelligence at scale?
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GUNDA
Virtual Showing
2020 | Norway | 92 min | Documentary
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Producer: Anita Rehoff Larsen
Editor: Victor Kossakovsky
GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm’s ambient soundtrack, Master director Victor Kossakovsky invites the audience to slow down and experience life as his subjects do, taking in their world with a magical patience and an other worldly perspective. GUNDA asks us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness, and reckon with the role humanity plays in it. Executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix.
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KISS THE GROUND
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 84 min | Documentary
Directors: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Right now, soil might be the last thing on your mind. But in a moment when the future of our planet and humankind is at stake, nothing may be more important than regenerating the ground beneath us. We’re in need of a kind of hope we’ve never felt before. KISS THE GROUND unveils a game-changer to our climate crisis: the Earth’s own soil.
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NYICFF Dutch Animation Celebration
Virtual Showing
2015-18 | Netherlands | 74 min | Animated
Director: Various
NY International Children’s Film Festival crossed the Atlantic to join forces with Cinekid, The Netherland’s premiere film festival for children, to share a program of the very best of Dutch animation–featuring diverse stories, hilarious romps, inventive animation, and more! PASSING BY Job, Joris & Marieke, 2018, 1 min 100 years of Amsterdam go by in street-style flash and dash in this memorably animated view of history. JONAS & THE SEA Marlies van der Wel, 2015, 12 min At the seaside, Jonas dreams of a life among the fish and constructs bizarre aquatic contraptions to realize the impossible. EMILY Marlies van der Wel, 2018, 8 min Blooming with artful animation and wistful storytelling, Emily was spotlighted as the Netherlands’ entry for Oscar consideration. HEADS TOGETHER Job, Joris & Marieke, 2016, 20 min Three very different kids, all friends, find out what it truly means to walk a day in each other’s shoes,…and legs, and torsos in this hilarious International Emmy and 2017 NYICFF Grand Prize- winning film. POLSKA WARRIOR Camiel Schouwenaar, 2017, 25 min Eric Kaminsky feels a little like a fish out of water. Will the pool finally be the place where he can feel just right? MR. PAPER GOES OUT FOR A WALK Steven De Beul & Ben Tesseur, 2018, 8 min With trusty scissors in hand, Mr. Paper makes choice cuts to craft his ideal world.
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For Sama
Virtual Showing
2019 | Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom | 100 min | Documentary
Directors: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. The story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while conflict rises around her.
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Yarne
Virtual Showing
2019 | Nepal | 19 min | Drama
Director: Andrew Krakower
The money earned by 11-year-olds Sonam and Tashi for doing prayers is only enough to share one small Coke. Sonam is lucky to even get a sip before Tashi, the monastery bully, drinks the entire bottle. Yarne is an annual six-week period when Buddhist monks remain within the monastery grounds for focused study and practice, yet for child monks, it’s more like house arrest. Tired of wasting his money, Sonam decides to save up every rupee he earns during Yarne to buy a soccer ball, but first he will have to stand up to Tashi.
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