From visual essays to family documentaries, these stories reveal a new world to us from the perspective of its filmmaker.
Nira Burstein’s documentary is a love song to her eccentric and sometimes mentally challenged family, who live in the gracious chaos of their Charm Circle New York City home in Queens.
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Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother have a “good death” in-home hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a “new old” single mother at 50 in this exploration of the transformative power of parenting.
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Six-year-old Alva and his filmmaker father share a loving vision of the world as a series of small revelations. Bedtime, family haircuts, aging and the stirrings of first love are sublimely explored in this cinematic essay. First Prize, DocAviv Film Festival; Best Documentary, Ophir Awards.
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A film about time, memory, fear, and the challenges of holding onto joy.
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What does it mean to worship an image? This witty essay film takes us from Graceland to the Vatican to Kensington Palace over the course of 20 years to investigate three of the most photographed people of all time
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A family’s story across three continents and four generations, from Kristallnacht to the atomic age, from the Bauhaus to our house, and from reason to madness.
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