Films

Atomic Cafe: The Noisiest Corner in J-Town

In the late 1970’s, when L.A.’s punk rock scene was exploding, an unlikely family-owned restaurant in Little Tokyo started by Japanese Americans returning from America’s…
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Becoming

As the US ramps up border enforcement during summer 2019, a formerly undocumented activist prepares for her naturalization test with her filmmaker-partner. In impressionistic scenes…
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Bethesda: A Shelter's Story

This immersive documentary by RiverRun alum and Wake Forest University Professor Thom Southerland lovingly profiles The Bethesda Center for the Homeless, which operates a day…
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A Broken House

When Mohamad Hafez received a single-entry visa to study architecture in the U.S., he realized if he couldn’t return home to Syria, he could make…
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Bug Farm

Four distinct women in Central Florida bond over working with crickets, superworms, and roaches on an insect farm in the small town of LaBelle. This…
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Can You Hear My Voice?

Can You Hear My Voice? chronicles the one-of-a-kind Shout at Cancer UK choir, whose members have all had their voice boxes removed, as they prepare…
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The Capote Tapes

Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of New York’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through…
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Dear Future Me

Dear Future Me features both 6th graders writing letters to their future selves and high school seniors opening the letters they wrote 6 years previous.…
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death. everything. nothing.

Separated by distance, time, and a pandemic, a daughter wrestles with her mother’s impending death. This title screens as part of the North Carolina Shorts…
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Documentary Shorts 1

Titles in this program of short documentary films include: A Broken House The Field Trip Last Meal Pant Hoot Sophie and The Baron
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Documentary Shorts 2

Titles in this program of short documentary films include: Atomic Cafe: The Noisiest Corner in J-Town Bug Farm Finding Tyler Hayat Snowy Strawberry Forever
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Down and Out in America

Directed by 2021 Master of Cinema honoree Lee Grant, Down and Out in America won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 1987. This exploration…
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Eddy's World

Eddy’s World is an intimate portrait of a 98 year-old working toy inventor whose creativity and curiosity keep him young and healthy. This documentary short…
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The Field Trip

A group of fifth graders learn what it takes to get ahead in the modern American workplace through a fascinating camp where they learn all…
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Finding Tyler

In August of 2003, Tyler Johnson was a prized scholar in theoretical physics. Months later he was homeless on the island of Corsica, a fugitive…
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Fog Likely Farm: An Appalachian Story

After a difficult divorce, Susie Winters, a young mother with two small daughters, moves from the Piedmont of North Carolina to a run-down, Civil War-era…
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For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close

In this hilarious and poignant look at the life of improv impresario Del Close, we follow the comedy trailblazer from his early sideshow act to…
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Hayat

Rahma, a single mother of four, encourages her children to maintain a strong sense of family, faith and cultural identity as she navigates personal difficulties…
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Los Hermanos/The Brothers

Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers—violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo—live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking their parallel lives in New York and…
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Just Over the Line

This film tells the story of Daniel Noell, who was arrested for drug trafficking in two adjacent North Carolina jurisdictions. Through interviews with Noell, his…
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Kiss the Ground

Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food…
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Last Meal

Capital punishment simmers in a boiling pot of controversy. Amidst the political and religious debate surrounding the issue, one thing sets tongues wagging more than…
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Life in the Sacrifice Zone

In his first feature film, Winston-Salem filmmaker Chad Nance highlights an African American community in rural North Carolina who battled systematic racism and one of…
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Lily Topples the World

Lily Topples the World follows 20 year-old sensation Lily Hevesh, the world’s most acclaimed domino toppler and the only girl in her field, as she…
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Lines of Exile

Hamid Naficy’s fifty years of drawings of prominent scholars, philosophers, and theorists form a unique index of the evolution of cultural theory over the last…
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Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story

This timeless documentary adventure recounts the incredible life story of British-born Amazonian cowboy turned US TV star, Stan Brock, who sacrificed everything to bring free…
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Misha and the Wolves

A young orphaned girl survives the Holocaust by fleeing her home in search of her parents, escaping Nazis by sticking to the woods and living…
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Missing in Brooks County

Two families search for their loved ones who went missing in the vast ranch lands of Brooks County, Texas, the site of more migrant deaths…
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The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

Described by Forbes magazine as the “must-see documentary of the year,” this follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2003 film The Corporation reveals how the corporate takeover…
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North Carolina Shorts 1

Titles in this program of short documentary films include: Becoming Fog Likely Farm: An Appalachian Story Just Over the Line Pink, White & Blue Seeding…
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Pant Hoot

As the world’s chimpanzee population dwindles in the wild, one man risks everything to care for a group of mistreated animals rescued by Jane Goodall’s…
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Pink, White & Blue

After years of transitioning in front of a camera, Aydian Dowling discusses how allowing his transition to be visible via YouTube has helped the trans…
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Proper Pronouns

Proper Pronouns tells the story of Dawn as she seeks validation in the pulpit and reconciliation in her marriage, problems she did not face when…
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Regulars

Jake’s Diner is a 24-hour diner in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the course of all 24 hours, Regulars gets to know the people that make…
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Returning Home

Richie Schley has built a career using the nature the earth provides us. In Returning Home, with stay at home orders in place, Richie takes…
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Ronnie's

A chronicle of the life of saxophonist Ronnie Scott, from poor, Jewish kid growing up in 1940s East End, London, to the owner of the…
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Sapelo

On the Georgia barrier island of Sapelo, two brothers, JerMarkest and Johnathan, are growing up in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people.…
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Saving the Dinosaur Fish

Rory Moore, a marine biologist and wildlife photographer, is on a mission to save the sturgeon, a prehistoric fish and one of the most critically…
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Seeding the Sea

Where fishermen were once able to catch over 100 pounds of fish in one day off the coast of Belize, now they can barely catch…
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She Carries On

Among the Cherokee people in North Carolina, the cultural tradition of stickball exemplifies “more than a game”. Cherokee women played the game at the turn…
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Sky Blossom: Diaries of the Next Greatest Generation

Filmed over three years, Sky Blossom is a raw, uplifting window into 24.5 million children and millennials stepping forward as frontline heroes. Caring for family…
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Snowy

Snowy, a four inch-long pet turtle, has lived an isolated life in the family basement. With help from a team of experts and his caretaker,…
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Sophie and the Baron

This charming story of an unlikely friendship between iconic photographer Baron Wolman at the end of his prolific career and up-and-coming artist Sophie Kipner at…
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Strawberry Forever

Fifty years ago, Tim McDermit fell forty feet from his college dorm roof. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was diagnosed with aphasia, a…
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Television Event

The Kid Stays in the Picture meets The Atomic Cafe in this archive-based documentary that views the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the…
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Theirs Is the Kingdom

Theirs is the Kingdom follows the rare creation of a contemporary fresco mural inside the sanctuary of a small church in Asheville, NC, examining the…
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A Tiny Ripple of Hope

Jahmal Cole is the confident and charismatic leader of My Block, My Hood, My City: an organization that brings hope and opportunity to teenagers across…
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Two Ways to the League

Two young basketball prospects from North Carolina, Josh Hall and Ty-Shon Alexander, walk different paths, but their ultimate goal is the same: make it to…
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Youth v. Gov

Youth v. Gov is the story of America’s youngest citizens taking on the world’s most powerful government. Twenty-one courageous youth lead a groundbreaking lawsuit against…
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