Cinematography: Lisa Rinzler

Direction Wim Wenders

Plot Director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club; Wings of Desire; Paris, Texas ) explores the lives of his favorite blues artists — Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J. B....

Direction Alex Gibney

Cast Patrick Wall · Geoffrey Robertson · Jeff Anderson · Thomas Doyle

Plot Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all...

Direction Madeleine Gavin

Cast Christine Schuler-Deschryver · Denis Mukwege Mukengere · Eve Ensler · Jane Mukunilwa

Direction Tony Bui

Cast Don Duong · Nguyen Ngoc Hiep · Tran Manh Cuong · Harvey Keitel

Plot An American in Ho Chi Minh City looks for a daughter he fathered during the war. He meets Woody, a child who's a street vendor, and when Woody's case of...

Direction Kent Jones

Cast David Fincher · Martin Scorsese · Wes Anderson · Richard Linklater

Plot Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Rüdiger Vogler · Patrick Bauchau · Teresa Salgueiro · Vasco Sequeira

Direction Carol Dysinger

Plot The story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write—and skateboard—in Kabul.

Direction Albert Hughes · Allen Hughes

Cast Tyrin Turner · Larenz Tate · Jada Pinkett Smith · Glenn Plummer

Plot This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.

Direction Laura Israel

Cast Robert Frank

Plot New York Film Festival synopsis:The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they’re one in the same, and the vast amount of territory...

Direction Antoine Fuqua

Cast B.B. King · Chuck D. · Dr. John · Gregg Allman

Plot Antoine Fuqua's documentary on the blues, shot at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Direction Steve Buscemi

Cast Steve Buscemi · Mark Boone Junior · Chloë Sevigny · Bronson Dudley

Plot Tommy (Steve Buscemi) has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a...

Direction Lisanne Skyler

Cast Keenan Larson

Plot 'Brillo Box (3¢ off)' follows a beloved Andy Warhol Brillo Box sculpture as it makes its way from a family's living room to a record-breaking Christie's auction, blending personal narrative...

Direction Ed Harris

Cast Ed Harris · Marcia Gay Harden · Tom Bower · Jennifer Connelly

Plot Ed Harris's POLLOCK is a moving portrait of artist Jackson Pollock, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work had major influence on the modern art movement. A serious alcoholic...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Pope Francis · Ignazio Oliva · Sister María Eufemia Goycoechea

Plot "Pope Francis - A Man of His Word" is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him. The pope's ideas and his...

Direction Martin Scorsese · David Tedeschi

Cast Barbara Epstein · W.H. Auden · Isaiah Berlin · Stephen Jay Gould

Plot Since its founding during the New York Times' newspaper strike of 1963, America’s leading journal of ideas has been a source of intelligent and controversial thinking about the issues of...

Direction Albert Hughes · Allen Hughes

Cast Larenz Tate · Keith David · Chris Tucker · Freddy Rodriguez

Plot A Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed.

Direction Todd Louiso

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Kathy Bates · Sarah Koskoff · Jack Kehler

Plot Wilson Joel is a man in trouble. There's a searing pain in his gut that he can't tolerate and a dazed quietness to his struggle as he tries to maintain...

Direction Anthony Russo · Joe Russo

Cast Sam Rockwell · William H. Macy · Isaiah Washington · Michael Jeter

Plot When petty thief Cosimo (Luis Guzman) is given the plan for the perfect heist from a lifer in prison - the kind of job you dream about - he has...

Direction Alex Rivera

Cast Leonor Varela · Jacob Vargas · Luis Fernando Peña · Giovanna Zacarías

Plot Memo Cruz is a young peasant who lives with his parents in the small, dusty village of Santa Ana del Rio in Oaxaca. Memo loves technology, and dreams of leaving...

Direction Jeremy Profe

Cast Evan Jonigkeit · David Zayas · Richard Kind · Devin Ratray

Plot The unheard true story of the moments after John Lennon was shot as seen through the eyes of those who lived it. Alan Weiss, an ambitious young news producer, finds...