With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when it will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont International Film Festival (Oct 23 – Nov 1). Directed by Sidney Lumet USA | 1976 | 121 mins Sponsored […]
With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when it will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont International Film Festival (Oct 23 – Nov 1). Directed by Ben Daitz USA | 2012 | 55 mins Sponsored […]
With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when it will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont International Film Festival (Oct 23 – Nov 1). Directed by Bill Lichtenstein USA | 2020 | 89 mins Sponsored […]
With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when it will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont International Film Festival (Oct 23 – Nov 1). Directed by Sam Fuller USA | 1952 | 83 mins The […]
Directed by Kantemir Balagov Russia | 2020 | Fiction | 137 mins | Russian w/ English subtitles An exquisite, beautiful, and brave film about set in post-WWII Leningrad. Two women, Iya and Masha, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. Iya works as a nurse […]
Directed by Gary Lundgren Fiction | 2019 | USA | 108 mins The movie stars James Le Gros and Jesse Borrego as two lifelong friends seeking a change from their dead-end jobs and pool their savings to reopen a bowling alley that serves (in their mind) the world’s best pizzas. “To put it simply – […]
Directed by Alison Reid 2019 | Canada | 82 mins | In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. […]
Directed by Levan Akin Romania | 2020 | Georgian w/English subtitles | 113 mins Source: Music Box Films A male dancer and his partner have been training for years for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another dancer throws him off balance, sparking both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that […]
Directed by Halina Dryschka Germany | 2019 | 93 mins | English, Swedish and German w/ English subtitles Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a […]
Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter A special offering for Earth Day Documentary | 2019 | Austria | 75 mins | German, English, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian w/ English subtitles Earth was filmed at seven locations that humans have transformed on a grand scale: Entire mountains being moved in California, a tunnel being sliced through rock at the Brenner […]
A consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. “Schwartzberg’s film quickly proves to be one of the year’s most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing and yes, immensely entertaining triumphs.” ~ Matt Fagerhol, RogerEbert.com Bonus: The […]
Directed by Daniel Roher Canada | 2019 | 102 mins A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robertson’s young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band. The film is a moving story of Robertson’s personal journey, overcoming adversity and finding camaraderie alongside […]
Directed by Nancy Kelly USA | 1990 | New 4K restoration by Indie Collect Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold was developed by the Sundance Institute and premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1990. It won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind […]
Directed by Rob Garver USA | 2020 | 95 mins Source: Juno Films Tagged by Roger Ebert as the most influential film critic of the late twentieth century, the film tells the story of Pauline’s turbulent life and work, through never-seen archival footage, her published writing and personal letters, and interviews with both friends and […]
Directed by Karen Akins USA | 2020 | English and Spanish w/ English subtitles Virtual Premiere When Mexico’s love affair with sugary drinks turns deadly, a battle between public health and corporate wealth erupts, pitting activists against the powerful beverage industry and their friends in high places. Mexico’s Number One Killer is not cartels. It’s Type […]
Directed by Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch-Miller USA | 2020 Source: Factory25 Co-sponsors: Foam Brewers, Autumn Records, Speaking Volumes, Waking Windows Other Music was an influential and uncompromising New York City record store that was vital to the city’s early 2000s indie music scene. But when the store is forced to close its doors due to rent increases, the […]
Written and Directed by Mirrah Foulkes Australia | 2020 | 106 mins Source: Sam Goldwyn In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy’s superior puppeteering, but Punch’s driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead […]
Directed by Pedro Costa Portugal | 2019 | 124 mins | Portuguese w/ English subtitles Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. A film of deeply concentrated beauty, Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor […]
Directed by Matt wolf USA | 2020 | 115 mins Official selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 Source: Neon TICKET LINK WILL BE LIVE FRIDAY, MAY 8! Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The […]
Directed by D. W. Young USA | 2019 | 99 mins | A lively tour of New York’s book world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers, past and present: from the Park Avenue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair, where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars; to the Strand […]