My Voyage to Italy
World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
Azzedine Alaïa
Ellen von Unwerth, a legendary fashion photographer, was able to slip backstage at the Azzedine Alaïa Fall Winter 1990 show. Supermodels such as Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen play and reveal themselves under the photographer’s lens.
1-800
A universal hotline serves as a channel for the unspoken, where callers send heartfelt messages to the people they long to reach.
Mexicanamerican
Expertly merging old VHS home movies with new family interviews, filmmaker Eddie Sánchez traces his parents' journey from Mexico to the U.S. in this poignant and affecting documentary debut.
Modify
A timeline of transformation, compiled from 8 years' worth of photos by and of transgender actress and filmmaker Robyn Adams.
A State Film
Through rare archive footage, the documentary traces the forty years of Enver Hoxha's communist regime in Albania, revealing cinema as a weapon of power.
Into My Life
Growing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. Today, still living in the same place, Cassandra examines and edits these remarkable films, gaining insight into the challenges her mother faced as a creative black woman and the importance of her vision.
Point of View: A Retrospective of Joe Sedelmaier
As one of his generation's quintessential Mad Men, television commercial director Joe Sedelmaier's work was iconic, dynamic, and instantly recognizable--some twenty to thirty years later, people are still wondering 'Where's the beef?” He turned the advertising world on its brain-damaged head by casting offbeat non-actors in still-unforgettable spots. His brilliant, frequently hysterical commercials for Wendy's, Alaska Airlines, Federal Express and others were snappy slices of cultural quirk that tapped into the Cold War-fearing, corporate workaholic zeitgeist of the '70s and '80s with a sense of humor that cracked billions of smiles, sold billions of burgers, and sped up the default rhythm of time-based media.
The Time Step
A portrait of the filmmakers grandmother made from self scanned 8mm footage from 1940's-1960's. Commissioned for the 2026 True/False Film Festival.
See You Next Year, Maybe
In 2002, a group of teenagers broke into their hometown cinema to make a film. What began as an ambitious idea became the testament of a generation.
All Roads Lead Back
A fragmented reflection on memory, love, and emotional limbo, unfolding through fleeting images and a drifting voice that questions their reliability.
"Boys Will Be Boys!" : Gamma Xi Chapter
An examination of brotherhood through archival footage from 1972-1973 of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity of the University of Wisconsin Platteville. Captured on authentic super-8 film, the documentary shows the lifestyle of Sigma Tau Gamma in it's more pure form.
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After waking up with no memory of his past, a man pieces together his life through archival photos and footage of the places he’s been, uncovering fragments of the identities he once lived as he confronts the relentless passage of time.