Film Year: 2020

Thanks to the efforts of several pioneering transgender athletes, including NCAA basketball player Kai Allums, professional golfer Mianne Bagger, mountain bike competitor Michelle Dumaresq, and mixed martial arts fighter Fallon Fox, sport fans around the world have begun to question “taken-for-granted assumptions of binary and hierarchical sex difference.” As Eric…

Created with the intention to inspire young Black women and men, this film brings the Hiplet ballerinas to center stage. Hiplet fuses classical pointe technique with hip-hop and urban dance styles. This film showcases how amazing and gifted these young Black girls are, how they’ve battled adversity within the dance…

The story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local protesters that escalate into conflict when highly armed police appear on the scene. WATCH ONLINE

With procedural precision and a bold blend of dramatic reenactments and news interviews, filmmaker-video artist Mario Pfeifer’s Again examines the events leading up to and following a Kurdish immigrant’s death in the Saxony region of Germany three years ago. The man, a 21-year-old refugee from Iraq named Schabas Saleh Al-Aziz,…

What is the Hyde Amendment and why has its repeal become a litmus test for progressive politicians? In 1976, only three years after Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, the Hyde Amendment was enacted with the explicit intention of denying poor individuals—those receiving Medicaid—access to abortion. Abortion…

Described by one western journalist as “sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome,” the city of Havana has occupied a central place in Americans’ cultural imagination of the Cold War ever since Fidel Castro assumed military and political power in 1959. When the man known as “El Caballo” became…

“I’ve waited 90 years for this.” This comment, spoken by a woman who has suffered more personal loss than have most people, refers to the late-in-life opportunity presented to her by Hungarian filmmaker Réka Szabó, director of the aptly titled The Euphoria of Being. Specifically, the remarkably spry nonagenarian, Éva…

Approximately 33,000 North Korean defectors currently live in South Korea, many of them having fled their homeland in search of food, freedom, and a better life. However, several people whose families remain north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) have experienced not only separation anxiety (being far removed from husbands, wives,…

Soccer — or what most of the world outside North America calls “football” — is popularly known as “the beautiful game.” But much of the masculinist discourse surrounding women’s soccer, especially in places where conservative religious doctrine and patriarchal social structures forbid women athletes from participating publicly in sporting events,…

For many Asian American women—and other women of color—Claudia Kishi was the first time they saw themselves in popular media. A main character in the best-selling Baby-Sitters Club books, Claudia defied stereotypical portrayals of Asian characters: she was creative, popular, and bad at school. Nostalgic yet timely, this film highlights…