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VOLINSKY: TAKING THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY TO THE CLASSROOM

Wednesday, 27 October 2021 by MONIFF-Admin

Virtual Showing 
2021 | USA | 5 min | Documentary
Director: Caitlin Agnew
Producer: Douglas Challenger
Editor: Caitlin Agnew

For years attorney and Executive Councilor Andru Volinsky has led the fight to reform the way we fund public schools in New Hampshire through the courts and civic activism.  Now he is taking his passion for equality and his knowledge of how public policy is made to Franklin Pierce University where he has become its first Civic Scholar in Residence.  In this short documentary, we see him on Constitution Day showing students how the legal system works and inspiring them to become civic leaders for social change. 

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FIRST WE EAT

Tuesday, 12 October 2021 by MONIFF-Admin

Virtual Showing 
2020 | Canada | 101 min | Documentary
Director: Suzanne Crocker
Producer: Suzanne Crocker
Editors: Michael Brockington, Caroline Christie, Astrid Schau-Larsen

Living 300 km from the Arctic Circle, filmmaker Suzanne Crocker bans all grocery store food from her house for one year. Add three skeptical teenagers and one reluctant husband. Ultimately the story becomes a celebration of community and the surprising bounty of food that even a tiny community in the far North can provide.

FIRST WE EAT qualified for Best Documentary at the 2021 Academy Awards and received an Audience Choice Award at Hot Docs Film Festival.

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GATHER

Wednesday, 24 August 2022 by MONIFF-Admin

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2020 | USA | 74 min | Documentary
Director: Sanjay Rawal
Producers: Tanya Mellier, Sterlin Harjo
Editor: Alexander Meillier

Gather celebrates the fruits of the indigenous food sovereignty movement, profiling innovative changemakers in Native American tribes across North America reclaiming their identities after centuries of physical and cultural genocide. On the Apache reservation, a chef embarks on a ambitious project to reclaim his tribe’s ancient ingredients; in South Dakota, a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a buffalo ranch, is using science to prove her tribe’s native wisdom about environmental sustainability; and in Northern California, a group of young men from the Yurok tribe is struggling to rehabilitate its rivers to protect the salmon. Gather beautifully shows how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient foodways provides a form of resistance and survival, collectively bringing back health and self-determination to their people.

“Fighting for water rights and fighting for hunting rights, and maintaining our food ways is our own battle to fight for our human rights. “ – Nephi Craig, Gather

A New York Times Critic’s Pick!

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Cold Brew

ANNAH LA JAVANAISE

Mairzy Doats

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Thirst

Thursday, 25 August 2022 by MONIFF-Admin

Virtual Showing 
2020 | USA | 13 min | Documentary
Director: Greg Pregent
Producer: 710 Main Films

Thirst is a visual adventure on the philosophy and brewing techniques of the Branch and Blade Brewery in Keene NH. Discover how they make beer with interesting ingredients and the fun of owning a brewery. Other local businesses from Keene NH are featured as well who work with them including Prime Roast Coffee. 

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PescAmare

Song of Salt

Hideout

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WIFE OF A SPY

Friday, 26 August 2022 by MONIFF-Admin

Virtual Showing 
2021 | Japan | 115 min | Drama
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.

Winner: Silver Lion (Best Director) – Venice Film Festival

“Critic’s Pick! Thrum[s] with unusual intensity… Wife of a Spy is something like linear narrative perfection, with every scene perfectly calibrated.” – Glenn Kenny, The New York Times

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Water Born

PescAmare

Fanny: The Right to Rock

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WAITING FOR

Friday, 26 August 2022 by MONIFF-Admin

Virtual Showing 
2020 | USA | 14 min | Drama
Director: Matt Braunsdorf
Producers: Jonathan Marballi, Matt Braunsdorf

When a man’s clumsy attempt at honesty derails a first date the only thing keeping the two of them there is a desire to try the gumbo. During their wait, however, they come to discover the upside of unrestrained honesty.

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Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness

I Didn’t See You There

Alchemy

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VOODOO MACBETH

Thursday, 25 August 2022 by MONIFF-Admin

Virtual + In-Person Showing 
2020 | USA | 108 min | Narrative
Directors: Agazi Desta, Christopher Beaton, Dagmawi Abebe, Ernesto Sandoval, Hannah Bang, Roy Arwas, Sabina Vajraca, Tiffany Kontoyannis, Victor Alonso-Berbel, Zoe Salnave
Producers: Miles Alva, Xiaoyuan Xiao, Jason Phillips
Editor: Takashi Uchida

1936 Harlem is a neighborhood battered by economic strife and hardship. With FDR’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her bring Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater — with an all-Black cast. They choose for their groundbreaking production a gifted but untested 20-year-old director by the name of Orson Welles, whose reimagined Haitian vision for the Scottish play is as daring and fresh as the cast and crew themselves.

Based on true events surrounding the Negro Theatre Unit’s revolutionary 1936 production of “Macbeth,” this is the story of a group of committed artists as they set out to create what is now considered a landmark event in African-American theatrical history.

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Hideout

NYICFF Kid Flicks One (ages 5+)

Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness

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A VIETNAM PEACE STORY

Wednesday, 24 August 2022 by MONIFF-Admin

Virtual Showing 
2020 | USA | 83 min | Documentary
Director: Andy Cline
Producers: Shannon Cay, Shane Franklin
Editor: Austin Wood

Former Marines return to “Hill 50” in North Vietnam, where they fought one of the war’s bloodiest battles. It takes both physical and mental courage for these Veterans to return. This is the story of their inner journey back.

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Long Live My Happy Head

The Candy Tin

Sleepless in Bandra

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TYPE CAST

Friday, 26 August 2022 by MONIFF-Admin

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2021 | USA | 7 min | Narrative
Director: Rick Groleau

Three typewriters that have taken on the personalities of their dead owners — a Catholic priest, a famous novelist, and a beatnik poet — tussle in an escalating battle of words and expose a damning hypocrisy.

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Sweet Disaster

Dragon Poets

Being Bebe: The Bebe Zahara Benet Documentary

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TOPOWA! NEVER GIVE UP

Wednesday, 24 August 2022 by MONIFF-Admin

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2020 | Uganda, UK | 83 min | Documentary
Directors: Philip Sansom, Inigo Gilmore
Producer: Rupert Sansom

‘TOPOWA!’ is the inspirational story of 12 talented young musicians, many of whom grew up as street children in some of the toughest slums in Uganda. From the dusty dirt roads of the Katwe slum to the iconic Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, and a residency at the world-famous Cheltenham Music Festival. The documentary features the Brass for Africa musicians and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, together with British virtuoso trumpeter Alison Balsom and saxophonist Jess Gillam. We follow Julius, Sumayya, Tadeo, Gilbert, and the Brass for Africa musicians as they are welcomed to the UK for an unforgettable experience that will transform their lives forever and empower the next generation of musicians to follow their dreams.

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Those People

Fire in the Mountains

Hit the Road

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