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Join us for a post-screening discussion with director Irene M. Borrego, in person. This recent, award-winning portrait of elderly, forgotten Spanish painter Isabel Santaló astutely reflects on memory, oblivion, and the creative process while posing the question of what it means to be both an artist and a woman. Santaló, whose abstract work was well […]
Join filmmaker Mila Turaljić in person for a post-screening discussion. Known as the finest cameraman in Yugoslavia, Stevan Labudović was handpicked in 1960 by Yugoslav President Josep Broz Tito to support the Algerian anti-colonial effort, in part because he saw parallels between the Algerian resistance and the Yugoslav partisans’ fight against Nazi occupiers in WWII. […]
Join filmmaker Mila Turaljić in person for a post-screening discussion. Mila Turajlić continues her research into Stevan Labudović’s film archive, here documenting the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement, a largely Yugoslav-led bloc including many decolonizing nations that stood apart from both East and West during the Cold War. What begins as an exploration of newsreel […]
Take a close look into the life and influence of photographer Dorothea Lange through historic, archival documentaries. Included are a documentary produced towards the end of Lange’s prolific life and films made with the support of the US Farm Securities Administration during the New Deal. These titles highlight legacies of recorded cultural histories and long-present […]
Join us for the DC premiere of Scottish-based playwright and performer Adura Onashile’s first feature film. "Girl" delicately tells the story of 11 year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, who take solace in an isolated world they obsessively create. After harrowing experiences in their homeland of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mother and daughter […]
New score performed live by Matthew Nolan and Erik Friedlander The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète), the first part of Jean Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy, is considered one of the finest surrealist films ever made. Cocteau wrote that his film marks “a descent into oneself . . . a kind of half-sleep through […]
