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A young boy sits in a barn in front of a donkey. He looks up at the animal, with a content expression on his face.

September 18, 2025

The Beauty of the Donkey

Award-winning Swiss Albanian filmmaker Dea Gjinovci (2020's Wake Up on Mars) returns to the bucolic Kosovo town of her father's youth—a place he hasn’t seen in 60 years—for this lyrical journey into the past at once wistful and tragic. Together, they recreate his childhood memories, making sets t...

The profile of an animated coyote holding an umbrella and standing in the rain, illuminated by streetlights.

September 18, 2025

Bouchra

Bouchra, a coyote, is a queer Moroccan filmmaker based in New York City, navigating love and work in a world populated by other animal friends and family, including her hot ex-girlfriend, a cow, her best friend, a lizard, and her mom, Aicha, a coyote who lives back home in Casablanca. While Bouch...

A man and a woman stand at a barbed wire fence in the middle of a field, using cellphones to film a looming storm.

September 18, 2025

A Brief History of Chasing Storms

From The Wizard of Oz to the Twister movies, the tornado has become an iconic American symbol. In A Brief History of Chasing Storms, Chicago filmmaker Curtis Miller takes us on a road-trip through “tornado alley”—an ever-widening region that extends from Texas and Oklahoma across the Great Plains...

An elderly man sits at a desk littered with legal pads. He looks at the camera, holding a sheet of paper with unseen text.

September 18, 2025

Cover-Up

Chicago journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered some of the most momentous political scandals in American history, from exposing the U.S. military’s My Lai massacre in Vietnam to its torturing of Iraqi citizens at Abu Ghraib. After decades spent trying to get Hersh to agree to make a documentary, ...

A young boy stands in the middle of a dry and empty field. He is wearing a cowboy hat and chaps.

September 18, 2025

The Cowboy

At 11-years-old, Crowley McCuistion has a bright future ahead of him as a cowboy in the plains of Colorado. Training since he was a toddler and encouraged by his strict father Curt, mother Farrah, and supportive older brother Yancie, the young Crowley knows exactly who he wants to be when he grow...

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