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<p>Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.</p>
<p>After a whale sinks his sailboat, Steven Callahan drifted across the Atlantic Ocean in an inflatable raft for an incredible 76 days. Forced to come to terms with his own limitations, Steven finds a strength he never knew he had. A gripping first-hand account of his NYT bestselling novel. Steve Callahan and producer Robert Sennott will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.</p>
<p>AKA MR. CHOW is the definitive story of an enigmatic man from renowned artistic roots in China turned legendary restaurateur of the West. Shuttled hastily out of Shanghai as a boy at the rise of Mao, Michael Chow single-handedly built a restaurant empire which transformed the way we consume food by merging East and West and turning his dinner spots into dazzling theaters of cultural energy.</p>
<p>When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? Apocalypse in the Tropics investigates Brazil’s descent into religious fundamentalism during the Covid-19 pandemic and president Bolsonaro’s leadership.</p>
<p>Stones are at once the most foundational and the most overlooked parts of our lifeworld. When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone . A hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions, Apple Cider Vinegar takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian quarry workers, passionate Britisch Geologist and People living on the lava fields of Fogo.</p>
<p>In the 80s, the Asian American population flipped from majority U.S. born to foreign born. Economic pressures and racial tensions culminated in 1982, when Vincent Chin was killed in Detroit. His murder is traced to the decline of the U.S. automotive industry, which many blamed on Japanese car manufacturers. In a landmark civil rights case, Chin’s murder spurred the first federal prosecution of a hate crime involving an Asian American. On the West Coast, the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, ignited in part by the beating of Rodney King and the murder of Latasha Harlins, are portrayed in complicated media narratives, pitting the Black and Korean communities against one another. For Asian Americans, race consciousness continued to evolve alongside increased representation, with such examples as tech entrepreneur Jerry Yang and stand-up comedian Margaret Cho. The Peabody Award–winning PBS series culminated in this fifth and final episode, a breakthrough account of diverse voices in an ever-expanding history of Asian America. KL</p>
<p>Episode 4 of the PBS series Asian Americans explores the collective identity that emerged from activism in labor and educational movements before the term Asian American even existed. The 1965 Delano Grape Strike was a critical milestone for Filipino and Mexican labor organizations to merge and form the United Farm Workers. As historian Alex Fabros Jr. recounts, Delano became “the West Coast civil rights movement for people of color.” The narrative shifts to Vietnam, an identity-altering event: Asian Americans not only faced racism in the U.S. military but also were confronted with the complexities of fighting overseas. Antiwar sentiment combined with racial tensions propelled student activists to demand Black studies be taught on their college campuses and call for solidarity with other people of color. At San Francisco State University, students advocating for a School of Ethnic Studies violently clashed with university administrators and local police. Ultimately, each turning point highlights the power of collective action in the Asian American narrative. KL</p>
<p>Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with her sexually provocative literature and equally adventurous love life. Here, she opens up about her past with additional perspectives offered by Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosely, and others.</p>
<p>Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.</p>
<p>Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis. Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life, and mortality.</p>
<p>I’m not ready to make such an ultimate decision. What if I’m unfit? When did my uterus become the property of society? I don’t want to lose my identity. Why must I have to do everything all at once? Is it morally okay to bring another life into a world full of calamity and climate change? This vibrant and cleverly drawn animated short shares the open and honest thoughts, feelings, anger, fears, doubts, indignations, observations, and ruminations of dozens of Finnish women as they contemplate (un)motherhood amid an all-too-real population crisis. As the birth rate steadily declines in Finland—an issue as widespread as it is difficult—women navigate peer pressure, societal expectations, biological clocks, and parents aching to become grandparents. The finality of the decision is as frightening to some as the prospect of turning into their own mothers. WM</p>
<p>During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead an angry mob — and change the course of history.</p>
<p>This intimate portrait of an Atlanta abortion clinic offers an unflinching look into the daily realities of both providing and accessing reproductive healthcare in a climate of intense hostility. At the heart of the film is Tracy—the clinic’s head of security, whose day begins before dawn—and her unwavering commitment to the staff and patients’ safety. The film highlights the precarious journeys many women undertake, traveling for hours from states where abortion access is either restricted or nonexistent. A woman of faith who begins each day with prayer, Tracy’s commitment to these women’s right to choose is absolute. She fiercely protects their access to safe and dignified care, shielding them from the relentless harassment of the protesters outside. With an unadorned, process-oriented approach, The Devil Is Busy functions on multiple levels: as an immersive slice of life, a testament to the resilience of those providing care, and a stark indictment of women’s increasingly limited access to abortion in the United States.</p>
<p>After 40 years working in the mine at Tierra del Fuego, Toto doesn’t qualify for the social security that would allow him to retire. So his son Jorge attempts to build a gold harvesting machine to bring them a better future.</p>
<p>On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway. Dropped at the edge of the world, they must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions.</p>
<p>Helen was a rebellious young hippie when she met and married U.S. Congressman Pete McCloskey, a Republican star known for opposing his own party. Forty years later, anticipating Pete’s death, she reflects on marriage, sex and the astounding complexity of true love.</p>
<p>A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share.</p>
<p>Libuše has been capturing her “rock-n-roll” life full of twists and turns in thousands of pictures and autoportraits. Yet the sudden photographic success after 53 years of work has not helped her to see her real self in the mirror. She is still searching for herself, the place where she belongs, as she goes through piles of negatives and diaries while working on a new book.</p>
<p>When Claudio Rojas is seized by ICE outside his home, his family hastily seeks help from a group of young, undocumented activists working tirelessly to expose the conditions on the inside of the Broward Transitional Center in Florida. In this seamless blend of reenactment and reality, two members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) successfully enter the holding center to stop the unjust deportations of detainees. The members connect detainees to NIYA cohorts on the outside, and we witness the remarkable positive results of NIYA’s relentless efforts. Six hundred men and 100 women wait, sometimes for years, inside this for-profit center imprisoning immigrants without trial. Scripted scenes with actors take us inside the mechanisms of the center and NIYA’s thrilling mission of community and freedom. These sequences are interwoven with footage of the actual participants, who describe the events as they unfold. With impressive care, The Infiltrators presents exhilarating evidence of the power of unified youth in subverting the system.</p>
<p>The Last Partera intimately portrays the final years of Doña Miriam Elizondo, a centenarian midwife in Costa Rica who has delivered more than 2,000 babies. From years of patient observation, the filmmakers weave a lyrical, beautifully photographed narrative that follows Doña Miriam and her protégé, nurse-midwife Rebecca Turecky, as they navigate an intricate landscape of maternal care. Alongside a vibrant community of nurses, doulas, and mothers, the filmmakers capture deeply personal moments, exploring difficult issues around birth, legacy, and the evolving roles of midwives in Costa Rica. Importantly, The Last Partera doesn’t shy away from the realities of the women’s work; it delves into the scientific and sociopolitical challenges they face, exploring medical complexities and systemic hurdles. The film is a celebration of the profound, unwavering camaraderie and respect that unites them, despite the challenges, and of the indomitable female spirit—a vital story in a time when women’s reproductive rights are more critical, and under threat, than ever.</p>
<p>As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.</p>
<p>Documenting lives in California's productive Salinas Valley agricultural region, revealing its people and landscapes.</p>
<p>At once visually magical and narratively heartbreaking, this exquisitely crafted stop-motion short navigates the rocky terrain of a mother-daughter relationship shaped by absence. Director Rebecca Blöcher’s mom, Verena, was a world traveler before she married and started a family—but then she takes to the road again, living in her tiny car for the last ten years of her life. A self-proclaimed vagabond, Verena was looking for freedom from the confines of her conventional marriage, but at what cost to her motherhood? Blöcher’s stunning felt world is discerningly aided by audio recordings of conversations with her mother, along with an array of snapshots, journals, and letters. This thoughtful combination reflects the intimately layered dynamic between the two women, even as it serves as broader commentary on questions of liberation and identity for so many women of that generation and this one.</p>
<p>Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. MISTRESS DISPELLER follows this process from all corners of a love triangle in an intimate meditation on love and family.<br /> <br /> In China, rampant adultery has given rise to a new industry devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession, a “mistress dispeller” who is hired to maintain the bounds of marriage — and break up affairs — by any means necessary. MISTRESS DISPELLER follows a real, unfolding case of infidelity as Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis, offering strikingly intimate access to private lives usually hidden behind closed doors. Their story shifts our sympathies between husband, wife and mistress to explore the ways emotion, pragmatism, and cultural norms collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.</p>
<p>Against the backdrop of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, filmmaker Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown in Mashhad to help her parents move house. Despite living abroad and not wearing a hijab regularly for many years, whenever she returns to Iran and is in the company of her religious extended family, she wears it. However, on this occasion she wants to force a change. With intimacy and honesty, the filmmaker embarks on a delicate journey towards lasting change.</p>
<p>As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia's hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what's really happening in his own school.</p>
<p>Produced in 1955, Alain Resnais’s historic short was one of the first documentary films to reflect on the experience and meaning of the Holocaust. A decade after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, Resnais trains his lens on the deserted grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek, filming them in vibrant color. With the passing of time, the structures have been abandoned and the grass has returned, yet the artifacts of unspeakable crimes—train tracks, barracks, gas chambers—remain, man-made scars from horrific acts of war. Resnais carefully weaves these observations with archival footage and photographs, unflinching black-and-white images made during and just after the war. Moving between past and present, Resnais narrates this synthesis with provocative questions around memory, the lasting imprint of violence, and the perils of turning a blind eye.</p>
<p>At the behest of his elderly mother, a painter embarks on a quest to find his family’s old apartment in the labyrinthine hills of Chongqing in southwestern China. He navigates the city’s transformed landscape, threading his way through tight alleyways, by consulting his cellphone’s GPS and seeking guidance from locals, as well as video-calling his faraway mother for her recollections and musings. His daughter, behind the lens, creates a rich visual chronicle of a city irrevocably altered. As she artfully juxtaposes past and present, skyscrapers against ancient mountains, neon signs against the ghosts of demolished structures, we see how much China has changed, structurally and culturally. Through this shared journey, the painter and his filmmaker daughter contemplate the nature of memory, the passage of time, and the weight of history, transforming their search into a profound testament to the power of image making.</p>
<p>A seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida’s “stand your ground” laws.</p>
<p>In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.</p> <p><em>The film received the Theme-Sensitive Award at the Science New Wave Festival XVII in 2024. This distinction honors a work that most vividly embodies the year’s festival theme — SIGNAL — bringing it to the screen in a singular and resonant way. The award includes a cash prize of $500. Learn more about our <a href="https://www.sciencenewwave.com/awards">SNW Luminary Awards</a>.</em></p>
<p>To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. An exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show and the world it helped create.</p>
<p>A view inside the life of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, capturing her through five tumultuous years in power and beyond as she redefined leadership on the world stage.</p>
<p>The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a non-fiction film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. A meditation on the prison’s disappearance in the era of mass incarceration, the film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of ordinary places across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives: from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight the region’s raging wildfires, to a warehouse in the Bronx full of goods specially produced to meet the arcane regulations of the state correctional system, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.</p>
<p>A letter from the man onscreen to his mother underpins Akosua Adoma Owusu’s poignant examination of love, acceptance, and belonging. Written and performed by Kwame Edwin Otu, Owusu’s beautifully grained black-and-white cinematography intimately observes him writing at a table, washing his body with a rich soapy lather, and lying naked with a lover. In voiceover, he wrestles with the chasm between the nourishment of his mother’s love and the pain of her disapproval. As he describes his isolation in a new country, far away from her, he asks, “Where do I call home?”</p>
<p>Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure was a secret. Sally’s life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, reveals their hidden romance and the sacrifices that accompanied their 27 years together.</p>
<p>An exploration of Black generational farmers in the American South reveals the fragility of legacy and the significance of owning land.</p>
<p>Selena Quintanilla — the “Queen of Tejano Music” — and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.</p>
<p>High in the majestic French Pyrenees, a conflict is provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears amid a traditional shepherding community. The film follows an aging shepherd struggling to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy obsessed with tracking them down. A modern folktale examining humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world.</p>
<p>During World War II, over 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese descent were incarcerated by the United States government. While the country was also at war with Italy and Germany, only Japanese Americans were targeted for mass removal. In Something Strong Within, illustrious filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura assembles rarely seen home movies and clandestine footage from individuals living inside the internment camps to expose the experiences of day-to-day life under the weight of forced confinement. Alongside the footage, the film incorporates written quotations from those who suffered this harsh existence. Their powerful reflections, documented as text onscreen, underscore both their extraordinary hardships and unwavering resilience. Nakamura’s award-winning film was created for the Japanese American National Museum’s exhibition America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience and features footage from Amache, Colo.; Heart Mountain, Wyo.; Jerome, Ark.; Rohwer, Ariz.; Topaz, Utah; Tule Lake, Calif.; and Minidoka, Idaho.</p>
<p>Displaced captures a collective portrait of Ukrainians fleeing the grindstones of war, and those who stayed and are forced to adapt to life under constant shelling. Is it possible to comprehend this war and its consequences, which are so relentlessly transforming the society and the world?</p>
<p>Southern Comfort follows Robert Eads, a trans man living in Toccoa, Georgia, in the early 2000s. After Eads receives a cancer diagnosis, he is turned away by local doctors, who fear that treating him will upset other patients. His restricted access to medical care has devastating effects and severely worsens his illness. Director Kate Davis connects with Eads and his circle of friends in the last year of his life. Chaptered by the changing seasons, the film unfolds through a series of close conversations in which loved ones reflect on their sexual identities, romantic lives, and connection to Robert. Davis approaches these interactions with sensitivity, curiosity, and compassion. There’s a palpable familiarity and an easy, forthright honesty in these exchanges. At once refreshing and tender, Southern Comfort is a love story—between Eads and his sons, in his unexpected romance with Lola Cola, and with the close friends who make up his dynamic family of choice.</p>
<p>Five top-ranked high school oratory students spend a year crafting spellbinding spoken word performances with the dream of winning one of the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competitions.</p>
<p>What happens to a beautiful place when its appeal lures tourists in such numbers as to sustain a whole industry of gawkers and gazers? In The Spectacle, idyllic European tourist destinations are documented through exquisite landscape cinematography, yet a droll pall hangs over the panoramas as we watch brightly hued Gore-Tex-clad pilgrims descend upon these places’ natural wonders to pose and preen, and certainly, post. Ethnography meets the Anthropocene in this short, wry essay about the fate of “attractions.”</p>
<p>For more than a century and a half, a group of African American women belonging to a clandestine organization have acted as agents of goodwill in their communities. This visual essay portrays the history of the United Order of Tents, a secret society that originated in the aftermath of the American Civil War. The strength of this multigenerational sisterhood is shown through an amalgamation of historical reenactments and contemporary sequences with the Tents. These hyperreal images are accompanied by narration documenting the history of the organization, a hypnagogic score, and ethereal sound design. Through harrowing imagery and dreamlike scenes from the past, the mystery of the Tents unfolds but never unravels.</p>
<p>Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette examines his family history in this inventive low-budget documentary. Collecting decades' worth of home movies and videotapes, answering machine messages and family snapshots, the film documents both the mental illness of his mother, Renee, and Caouette's own early recognition of his homosexuality. The pair's survival in an atmosphere of pervasive abuse, addiction and abandonment is balanced by Caouette's stable adult relationship with his caring boyfriend.</p>
<p>Change is coming to the Croatian island of Vis, where the traditions from a small fishing community are under threat from impending development and tourism. A film composed of strikingly lush cinematography and equally vibrant characters, The Tempest of Neptun brings viewers aboard fishing boats and into local haunts, making them privy to spirited discussions concerning the environment, time-honored customs, sustainability, modernity, and not least, storytelling. Members of the town’s different generations compare the values and application of information and empathy, as all the while, director Katarina Stankovic imparts cinematic sensations of the present receding into the past, ebbing like the tide. Visually and aurally captivating, and thoughtfully humanist in scope, the film is both observational and inquisitive, with a graceful suggestion of Vis as a microcosm for a world facing change.</p>
<p>Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease leads to an exploration of art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.</p>
<p>A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company.</p>
<p>November 8, 2016. Charlottesville, Virginia. At voting precincts around the city, everyday citizens exercise their right to vote. Filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson sets his camera in the center of these spaces, observing the civic process as it unfolds. Shot on 16mm black-and-white film, Tonsler Park immerses us in the routine operations and casual exchanges between participants. Focusing on mostly Black civil servants, we see workers at tables check voters in and share simple instructions. Constituents come and go. Sound originates from sources around the room, but the camera stays still, meditating on the people before it—even as other figures cross in front of the lens, the camera’s tight focus remains. This tirelessly observed and accumulative portrait encourages reflection as it documents in detail what would ultimately be a historic day for the United States, moving us to consider the democratic process, who it serves and who it marginalizes.</p>
<p>From 1995 to 1998, director Richard Kotuk documented Travis Jefferies, a young boy in the South Bronx living with AIDS. For 14 hours every day, Travis is tube-fed liquid nutrients because he can no longer eat. His life revolves around managing painful side effects, countless medications, and hospital visits. When Kotuk first meets Travis, at age seven, he is already beginning to recognize the frailty of his existence and the limitations imposed by his illness. But Travis’s determination to live is radiant and only strengthened by physicians, pharmacists, neighbors, cousins, and his caregiving grandmother, who are all unwilling to give up on him. Kotuk’s camera is unflinching, bearing witness to Travis’s physical pain and his mental fortitude. This Peabody Award–winning film became an integral part of Full Frame’s history in 1998, when it won the Grand Jury Award during the first edition of the festival, when it was called the DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival.</p>
<p>In the small town of Niscemi in Sicily, 26-year-old Valentina is living with her parents. She spends her time crocheting, swimming in her family’s makeshift pool, and accompanying her ailing father to his doctor’s appointments, all the while longing for the independence to live in the city like her older sister. Meanwhile, a ground station of giant antennas receives data as part of the insidious MUOS, or Mobile User Objective System—a next-generation network of U.S. Department of Defense satellites. For years, locals have protested the system for fear that strong electromagnetic waves are causing irreparable harm. Despite her parents’ objections, Valentina joins the anti-MUOS movement and begins to gain her freedom by learning to drive, finding a job, and moving out of her parents’ house. Through this tender and vulnerable coming-of-age story filled with poetic imagery, we are compelled to see the worldwide impacts of American militarism.</p>
<p>Fusing rigorous reportage with innovative cinematic subjectivity, this bold documentary from veteran war photographer Olivier Sarbil is a uniquely intimate portrait of a Deaf person’s experience of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</p>
<p>Vividly tracing the history and influence of funk music, filmmakers Stanley Nelson (2012 Full Frame Tribute honoree) and Nicole London bring to the screen the stars and stories, the themes and theory, behind the music. Featuring dazzling archival performances from James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament Funkadelic, Labelle, Fela Kuti, and more, this energetic documentary has the spirit and spectacle of a concert film. Effortlessly woven throughout the film are interviews with contemporary musicians and ambassadors of the sound, including Questlove, Prince Paul, and David Byrne, who discuss the vast constellation of funk, ranging from post-war politics, sociology, and science to the roots of the legendary rhythms. As infectious and dynamic as the grooves it chronicles, We Want the Funk! honors funk’s fantastic voyage with a cinematic journey through the genre.</p>
<p>With remarkable access, directors Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson capture the inner workings of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), documenting refugees and officials as they move through the asylum-seeking process. The law states that asylum may be offered if the applicant can demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution. The filmmakers record the interviews that will determine whether applicants are allowed to stay in the U.S. from both sides of the desk—the refugees who make their appeals, and the officials who determine the outcome. Asylum seekers describe harrowing circumstances and reflect on what’s at stake. Interviewers reveal how they interpret information, especially when the stories they hear don’t line up with their perceptions. Rooted in human exchanges, many through interpreters, a thorny, vulnerable procedure evolves onscreen. The consequences are life-changing; the potential for misunderstanding is vast. Avoiding superficial conclusions, Well-Founded Fear wrestles with ambiguity as it explores the limitations of a process based in personal assessment.</p>
<p>Suzanne Raes’ film follows the Impey family through a major transition: rifling through the contents of their childhood home in preparation to sell it, with their own children watching on. Between the clutter and the boxes, the siblings find themselves haunted by the memories of their late parents: a dragon-obsessed father and an exacting mother, and the esoteric collections of objects they left behind. Working through her award-winning documentary collective, Docmakers, veteran filmmaker Raes (<em>0.03 Seconde</em>, <em>Two Men</em>, <em>Close to Vermeer</em>) carves out a disarmingly tender rumination on parent-child relationships. Giving equal weight to each sibling, balancing the light and shade of the physical and emotional spaces of their lives, <em>Where Dragons Live</em> also features some dazzling visuals in the way it presents this personal history.</p>
<p>When George H.W. Bush won the presidency in 1988, scientists had already been warning for years of the dangers of global warming. Bush promised to counter the “greenhouse effect” with the “White House Effect,” but his administration’s ties to the fossil fuel industry soon undermined efforts to environmentalist intentions. This sobering yet humorous all-archival film offers captivating flashbacks to the early days of the climate crisis, raising questions about what might have been if our government was accountable to the will of its people and the health of our planet.</p>
<p>An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO's impact on human rights, labor, and the environment.</p>
<p>For 30 to 45 minutes a week between 1997 and 2007, Yellowstone Public Radio solicited live on-air opinions from listeners across Montana and northern Wyoming. Callers were encouraged to express their thoughts on whatever they wanted, and the opinions ranged across such hot topics as the Iraq War, an indoor smoking ban, and the meaning of poetry. The magic of these audio recordings lies in the openness of both the callers and the program’s hosts, who offer a sympathetic sounding board, free from judgment and infused with humor. Accompanying the audio recordings are luxuriant scenes of current-day life in Montana. Your Opinion, Please is a beautiful time capsule from a not-too-distant past that holds a mirror up to our present—the people we hear aren’t only freely expressing themselves, they are listening.</p>