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Halving the Bones tracks with levity and some imaginatively staged re-creations a woman's attempt to divest her grandmother's bones while questioning what is ultimately more “halved”: her deceased grandmother or the multiracial identity of the filmmaker herself.
See the personal collections of our guest vendors and take home your own piece of Jim Henson history! Collectibles will be available for purchase or to trade.
On Jim Henson's birthday, enjoy a performance of instrumental music from films that have captured the hearts of audiences for decades.
Spanning three decades in the life of a Pakistani Canadian family, this vibrant festival favorite from writer-director Fawzia Mirza explores intergenerational connections between mothers and daughters and East and West. Fawzia Mirza and producer Andria Wilson Mirza will appear in person!
These films see their makers using the personal documentary format to fracture and restructure their relationships with their parents. With filmmaker Su Friedrich in person.
When filmmaker Lourdes Portillo receives a call informing her that her beloved uncle Oscar Ruiz Almeida has been shot, she heads back to her hometown of Chihuahua, Mexico.
In Les oeufs, Richard Leacock uses his new Hi8 camera to push the bounds of this aesthetic. Paired with Sleep Dealer director Alex Rivera’s first short.
Spanish director Pablo Berger’s Academy Award–nominated first animated feature, an adaptation of Sara Varon’s celebrated graphic novel, is a beautiful, surprising, and bittersweet tale of a friendship between a dog and his robot companion.
Both films employ unconventional forms and artifice to bring viewers closer to family tragedies.
With a 1970s aesthetic and screwball comedy tone, Between the Temples is a sharply witty and heartwarming comic drama with Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman.
One of the greats by the late “King of Cult” Roger Corman follows an ambitious surgeon and scientist, Dr. Xavier (Milland), who formulates eyedrops that allow him to see more than the visible spectrum of light.
In her recently rediscovered, deeply hilarious film, Jan Oxenberg pulls focus on her grandmother, playfully approaching memory and mortality by using cardboard cutouts to recreate scenes of her childhood and other candid family memories. With Jan Oxenberg and Tomboychik director Sandi DuBowski in person.