2022 Official Selections
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- DirectorCynthia LowenStarsTerrisa BukovinacMarjorie DannenfelserKristan HawkinsThree women lead the charge in their single-minded quest to overturn Roe v. Wade, as they face down forces equally determined to safeguard women's access to safe and legal abortions.Life + Liberty Spotlight Night
- DirectorRay WhitehouseStarsFrankie Gonzales-WolfeJeff WolfeFrankie Gonzales-Wolfe goes on a personal journey and questions her relationship to her community as she runs for city council in San Antonio, Texas, and attempts to become the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.SHOUT Spotlight Night
- DirectorJo RochelleStarsAndy DubickBrittany BenjaminRegina HoylesA determined 16-year-old with albinism makes it her mission to become a professional model in her hometown of Minneapolis, while attempting to go unnoticed in every other aspect of her teenage life.Black Lens Spotlight Night
- DirectorBradford ThomasonBrett WhitcombStarsJamie DuneierAlisa ReyesTom PuckettChronicles the journeys of broadcasters, educators and filmmakers who believed television could inspire a lifelong love of reading.Opening Night
- DirectorTayo GiwaStarsLumumba Akinwole-BandeleAdeyemi BandeleFela BarcliftThe Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Led by educator and activist Jitu Weusi, The East embodied Black self-determination, building more than a dozen institutions, including its own African-centered school, food co-op, newsmagazine, publisher, record label, restaurant, clothing shop and bookstore. The organization hosted world-famous jazz musicians and poets at its highly sought-after performance venue, and it served as an epicenter for political contemporaries such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords and the Congress of Afrikan People, as well as comrades across Africa and the Caribbean. In effect, The East built an independent Black nation in the heart of Central Brooklyn. The Sun Rises in The East is the first feature-length documentary to explore The East and its continued influence on the fabric of Black Brooklyn. The film also examines challenges that led to The East's eventual dissolution, including its gender politics, financial struggles and government surveillance. Featuring interviews with leaders of The East, historians and people who grew up in the organization as children, The Sun Rises in The East delivers an exhilarating and compelling vision for just how much is possible.
- DirectorLisa HurwitzStarsMel BrooksJohn W. RomasCarl ReinerDocumentary centers on the vending machine popularized in the 20th century that offered fresh cooked meals in a commissary-style eatery.
- DirectorShawn BannonWhat is the price some pay for the world's pork? North Carolina residents take on one of the world's most powerful companies in a fight for their rights to clean air, pure water, and a life free from the stench of pig feces.
- DirectorBrian VincentStarsDavid McDermottMarguerite Van CookJames RombergerA madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Filmed in NYC, Detroit, San Francisco, Ireland, Berlin and the Cote d'Azur.
- DirectorEllie FoumbiStarsBabetida SadjoSouleymane Sy SavaneJennifer TchiakpeAn African refugee's quiet existence in a sleepy mountain town in the south of France is upended by the arrival of a charismatic Catholic priest whom she recognizes as the warlord who slaughtered her family.
- DirectorBarney DouglasStarsBjörn BorgPeter FlemingChrissie HyndeIt follows John McEnroe as he finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.
- DirectorTyler RiggsStarsMichael Abbott Jr.Dendrie TaylorBrit ShawIn the aftermath of a senseless act of violence, a young mother must learn to manage her overwhelming grief-not only for her own peace of mind but for the sake of her young son.
- DirectorJon KasbeCrystal MoselleStarsDavid HansonSophia the RobotSarah Rose SiskindThis stirring and visually immersive documentary brings us inside the spirited pursuits of David Hanson, a restless inventor aiming to perfect the world's most life-like A.I.
- DirectorDebora SilvaDebora SilvaStarsSheila BanksBenjamin CrumpTamyra Smith DavisWanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing.
- DirectorPeter McDowellStarsJohn AtteburyYves BletzackerRobert CarolanJIMMY IN SAIGON is a documentary exploring the mysterious death of Peter McDowell's eldest brother, James, who died age 24 in Saigon. The film explores unspoken grief and family secrets, while honoring those lost long ago.
- DirectorAndrew JenksStarsNeil Patrick HarrisIt tells the story of the Cabbage Patch Kids and how they set the wheels in motion for modern-day Black Friday.
- DirectorJeff BaenaStarsAlison BrieJake PickingStella ChestnutA woman wins an all-expenses-paid trip to a company's gorgeous "institute" outside of Florence, and also the chance to meet the restaurant chain's wealthy and charismatic owner. She finds a different adventure than the one she imagined.
- DirectorYance FordStarsNeel ShahExplores how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare in the United States.
- DirectorBillie MintzStarsDee DrentaAn investigative documentary that examines the systemic abuse of elderly people in Las Vegas, Nevada exposing a cautionary tale where some of our society's most vulnerable citizens are robbed of their life savings and freedom.
- DirectorPacho VelezStarsRuddy HarootianDisnie SebastienAlternately humorous and touching, Searchers draws on encounters with a diverse set of New Yorkers as they navigate their preferred dating apps, searching for their special someone.
- DirectorRuth CaudeliStarsSilvia SantamaríaRuth CaudeliAna María OtáloraHave you ever met a throuple? We are opening our home's doors to show you how our life is, how we, as a women's throuple, live with the absence of one of us. This real-life fiction shows us how we deal with loneliness, jealousy, and how we have to adapt ourselves when three become two.
- DirectorIsabel CastroStarsJacks HauptRaúl MascorroCarlos MuñozFollows Doris Muñoz, who began a career in music talent management and met Jacks Haupt, an auspicious young singer. Both share the ever-present guilt of being the first American-born members of their undocumented families.
- DirectorBruce W. SmithStarsFaizon LoveVanessa Bell CallowayRobin HarrisTo impress his new girlfriend, a man agrees to look after her friend's kids, only to find that they are uncontrollably rambunctious.
- DirectorClay TatumStarsClay TatumWhitmer ThomasDeMorge BrownA misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences.
- DirectorOwen KlineStarsDaniel ZolghadriMatthew MaherMiles EmanuelA bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
- DirectorRobert MachoianStarsClayne CrawfordJordana BrewsterMichael Raymond-JamesA family man, hoping to prove his survivalist capabilities and manliness to his family, decides to irresponsibly head off into the woods and go deer hunting by himself.
- DirectorAmy Bandlien StorkelBryan StorkelStarsSteve GlewKathy GlewJosh GlewSteve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.
- DirectorAdrian MurrayStarsMolly ReismanSofia BanzhafBessie ChengA minor traffic citation spirals into an all-consuming obsession for a neurotic young woman.
- DirectorJay BurlesonStarsKansas BowlingPoppy CunninghamTaylor SmithFollow an implacable killer as he stalks and butchers the occupants of houses across the stretch of one lone country road while the residents prepare to watch a yearly college-football bout.
- DirectorJay BurlesonStarsDarius WillisK.J. BakerAllison ShrumWhen a psycho goes on a murderous rampage after surviving a botched execution, only two survivors of his initial attack can stop him.
- DirectorBryan DarlingJesse Finley ReedStarsMatt BomerBrian BuzziniParvesh CheenaA nostalgic and colorful peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after mail-order catalogs of the '80s and '90s.
- DirectorJoel PotrykusStarsKatya RavieAndie StanekLydia BonneyA band of teenage metalheads get more than they bargained for when they accidentally kill a demon during a satanic ritual.
- DirectorWyatt WeymouthStarsTitus HedstromJustin CapazDennis MartinelliDylan is a directionless young man living in rural Florida, alienated from the few people around him by his mental illness. When Dylan's brother sends him away to stay with his friend for a few days, and they go into the woods to shoot guns, things take a violent turn.
- DirectorUrsula EllisStarsVirginia NewcombBen LongWhile working deep in a West Virginia coal mine, Diana is exposed to a mysterious gas that seeps into her everyday life.
- DirectorJoe EddyStarsBrian Austin GreenChris LightbodySpencer YarasWhen a documentary crew sets out to explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and popular music, their journey takes a turn when they stumble across a mystery involving the disappearance of infamous rap duo, The Booty Boys.
- DirectorGeoff MarslettStarsKiowa GordonLily GladstoneJohn WayTwo hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons.
- DirectorTyler RussellStarsEva HabermannGeorge HardyGreg SesteroIn the 1960s a nurse's last day is ruined when a doctor inadvertently creates a cyst monster that terrorizes the office.
- DirectorRick CharnoskiStarsHaley IsaacsonRyan ToothmanJohn VeitRed, a runaway in the 1980s, returns to the outskirts of her NorCal hometown to track down her wayward father and falls in with a young drifter.
- DirectorAndrew SemansStarsRebecca HallTim RothGrace KaufmanMargaret's life is in order. She is capable, disciplined and successful. Everything is under control until David returns - that is - carrying with him the horrors of Margaret's past.
- DirectorBianca StigterStarsHelena Bonham CarterGuy ClemensThomas DudkiewiczA snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.
- DirectorEva VitijaStarsAnnina ButterworthPatricia HighsmithMarijane MeakerBased on Patricia Highsmith's personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer's life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsRalph MacchioPat MoritaRobyn LivelyOstracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.
- DirectorDavid SievStarsSkyler JanssenMichael MeinholdChun SievA real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump's rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.
- DirectorOscar HardingStarsDerrick BecklesLehr BeidelschiesCharles CarsonA strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
- DirectorJason KohnAn examination of corruption and class warfare in Brazil as told through the stories of a wealthy businessman, a plastic surgeon who assists kidnapping victims and a politician whose income relies on a frog farm.
- DirectorKristy Guevara-FlanaganStarsJane FondaBrittany Taylor VisserJoey SolowayAn examination of how the nude female body is hypersexualized, under attack and exploited on and off screen in Hollywood.
- DirectorKathryn FergusonStarsSinéad O'ConnorGay ByrneJohn O'ConnorFollowing the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
- DirectorBerndt MaderBen SteinbauerStarsJoe PickettNick PrueherScott BassWhen childhood friends Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett start booking their gag strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows, their pranks end up going viral, landing them in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate.
- DirectorCamilla HallJennifer TiexieraStarsEvgeny AfineevskyArthur AgeeMukunda AnguloFilmmakers examine the impact that well-known documentaries and their commercial success have had on the lives of their subjects. They focus on the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking.
- DirectorMye HoangStarsNathan KehnRyan RobertsonWill ZweigartMan has found a new best friend in this heartwarming collective portrait of nine unique men whose lives have been proudly and forever changed by their love for cats.
- DirectorAllison OttoStarsGlenn HowertonSarah MinnichBrandon Z RuizIn 1985, Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre," one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, was cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in a New Mexico home.
- DirectorSaela DavisAnna Rose HolmerStarsSeán T. Ó MeallaighPaul MescalEmily WatsonIn a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
- DirectorJason KohnStarsDusan SimicMartin RapaportAja RadenIllusions and reality merge, where authenticity and imagination overlap, and questions arise about the value we place on the goods around us.
- DirectorDana Falletta AbercrombieStarsJoey HaleLionel James
- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsOlivia Newton-JohnGene KellyMichael BeckA struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
- DirectorErin Levin BernhardtDin BlankenshipStarsKazeen AbdullahFarzana BaratiKhadija BaratiChris Buckley is a father, veteran, and a former leader of the KKK living in rural Georgia. Following concern from his wife, Buckley receives help from an extremist group interventionist. Despite his renunciation of the KKK, Buckley retains a deep prejudice against Muslims, stemming largely from the 9/11 attacks and his experiences in the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chris' long-held beliefs are challenged when Dr. Heval Kelli, a cardiologist and Kurdish refugee living in the resettlement community of Clarkston, Georgia, reaches out to him. Dr. Kelli believes that he must do what he can to quell the rising, hateful rhetoric of white nationalism that threatens his diverse community of refugees who have fled persecution and violence for a better life in America. He takes it upon himself to try to understand Chris and others like him. An unlikely relationship develops. Will Chris overcome his hate? Will Dr. Kelli find what he is seeking? What's possible when we are willing to face hate with humanity?
- DirectorKestrin PanteraStarsBritt RentschlerMichael TennantJ.J. NolanJack and Lindsay are invited on a getaway trip with affluent strangers: down the rabbit hole, and into the most unhinged weekend of their lives. Can their relationship survive?
- DirectorMargaret BrownStarsTheodore ArthurGary AutreyChris DavisFollows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.
- DirectorSarah Elizabeth MintzStarsOdessa A'zionCasey AdamsFred BernsteinFailing to find intimacy in her broken home, a lonely young girl falls hard for a charming drug dealer and becomes entangled in his meth ring run by LA teens.
- DirectorWilliam T. HornerStacey WoelfelStarsJudd WinickPam LingCory MurphyThe story of Pedro Zamora, the charming young activist who transformed the face of AIDS in America by allowing MTV's REAL WORLD to chronicle his joy, his influence, and his journey with a disease that would ultimately kill him.
- DirectorDavid CrewsNorman JetmundsenStarsKirk HerbstreitAubrey BlackNick SabanIn 1899 Sewanee's mountaintop football team played the South's first 12 game season. They went 12-0 and, incredibly, traveled 2,500 miles by steam locomotive, playing an astonishing 5 games in 6 days. The story of the Sewanee Tigers and their season have all the hallmarks of fiction. Yet, as Sewanee Vice-Chancellor, John McCardell, has noted: "It's more than lore -- it's true." Unrivaled chronicles the incredible story of the Iron Men of 1899 and their historic season. The saga is both gripping and inspiring and ranks as one of the greatest achievements in all of sports.
- DirectorJulian HigginsStarsThandiwe NewtonJoris JarskyJefferson WhiteWhen a college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
- DirectorMichael TullyStarsSuzanne VegaSuzanne Vega reinterprets two talks from Carson McCullers.