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Battlefield: Home – Breaking the Silence
2017 | USA | 68 MIN Sunday, March 29 | 3:30PM In unraveling the journey of PTSD and the aftermath of war, a Vietnam era military child speaks with veterans and family members and exposes the unflinching impact of war, and the failing systems that continue a legacy of trauma from generation to generation. service…
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2019 | USA | 81 MINS | Texas Premiere Wednesday, March 25 | 7PM Thursday, March 26 | 10:30PM Born Into The Gig is a music-driven documentary that follows five singer-songwriters who hope to carve their own musical identity in the shadow of their parents’ iconic greatness. For these ‘children of,’ a career path in…
More DetailsCapturing the Flag
2018 | USA | 76 MIN | Texas Premiere Friday, March 27 | 8:30PM Saturday, March 28 | 1PM What exactly happened on November 8, 2016? Turning its focus away from politics and towards the election process itself, Capturing the Flag tells the deeply personal story of four friends who travel to Cumberland County, NC…
More DetailsCowboys: A Documentary Portrait
2019 | USA | 90 MIN Saturday, March 28 | 3:30PM Sunday, March 29 | 5:15PM Cowboys is an award-winning cinematic documentary that tells the story of the modern working ranch cowboy amid the backdrop of the American West. Told in the cinematic tradition of classic westerns, this feature-length documentary offers the opportunity to ride…
More DetailsGoing Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
2019 | USA | 85 MIN | Texas Premiere Thursday, March 26 | 6PM Saturday, March 28 | 6PM Going Attractions celebrates the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories were larger than life, as were the venues designed to…
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2019 | Republic of Macedonia | 87 MIN Sunday, March 29 | 5:45PM The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.This film which is filmed in Macedonia is an exploration of an observational…
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2019 | USA | 85 MIN | Texas Spotlight Thursday, March 26 | 8:15PM With breathtaking visuals, intimate access and action-packed scenes, award-winning Hurdle (from first-time Dallas filmmaker Michael Rowley) reveals an exciting story emerging from the hearts of Palestinian youth living in the Occupied Territories. Leaders to the youth of their communities, Sami and…
More DetailsI Am Evidence
2017 | USA | 89 MIN Thursday, March 26 | 3:30PM Saturday, March 28 | 2:45PM I Am Evidence exposes the shocking number of untested rape kits in the United States today, estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands. Despite the power of DNA to solve and prevent crimes, these kits containing potentially crucial…
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2019 | Germany | 106 MIN | Texas Premiere Friday, March 27 | 3:45PM Saturday, March 28 | 10PM When night falls in rural Germany, old VW-caravans decorated with flashy lights line the country roads which lead through potato fields and dark forests. Inside these buses prostitutes from Eastern Europe and Africa await their clients…
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2019 | USA | 87 MIN Friday, March 27 | 6:30PM Saturday, March 28 | 5:15PM To a stranger, he’s an eccentric Singaporean obsessed with toilets, but to those who know him, he’s ‘Mr. Toilet’. A former entrepreneur, Jack Sim, uses humor to campaign for something no one dares talk about: shit. It’s a crisis…
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2018 | United Kingdom | 96 MIN | North Texas Premiere Thursday, March 26 | 4PM Saturday, March 28 | 10:30AM Nae Pasaran reveals for the first time the incredible impact made by Scottish factory workers 40 years ago against one of the most repressive dictatorships of the 20th century. 40 years after their defiant…
More DetailsNailed It
2018 | USA | 80 MIN Saturday, March 28 | 10AM In virtually every city, state and strip mall across the U.S., women get their nails done in salons likely owned by Vietnamese entrepreneurs. How did this community come to dominate an $8 billion dollar nail economy? Nailed It takes viewers from Los Angeles to…
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2018 | Austria | 61 MIN | Texas Premiere Thursday, March 26 | 1PM Sunday, March 29 | 12:30PM When fleeing from the war with the Red Khmer, eight-years-old Ngoc manages to survive alone a three weeks boat odyssey. Thanks to the humanity of an Austrian family, he gets integrated into the Austrian society and…
More DetailsShatter the Silence
2019 | USA | 57 MIN | Texas Spotlight Saturday, March 28 | 7:45PM Grassroots change starts at the community level and while the film focuses on Dallas, Texas area, the message is universal. The use of archival footage including suffragettes, Anita Hill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird Johnson, JFK and more helps support the modern…
More DetailsSnarky Puppy: Family Dinner Volume 2
2016 | USA | 90 MIN | Texas Spotlight Sunday, March 29 | 1PM In February of 2015 Grammy-award-winning band, Snarky Puppy, recorded a monumental album in front of a live studio audience with guest instrumentalists and vocalists from all over the world. The entire album was recorded in stunning 4K resolution and features candid…
More DetailsSockeye Salmon/Red Fish
2020 | Russia | 51 MIN | World Premiere Thursday, March 26 | 11:30AMFriday, March 27 | 11:30AM Sockeye, a species of wild salmon, is born in Kamchatkan waters and spends its entire life in the Pacific Ocean. Only once does it return to fresh waters – to give offspring, start the circle of life,…
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2020 | Kenya | 96 MIN | Texas Premiere Friday, March 27 | 6PM Saturday, March 28 | 10:30PM Boniface Mwangi is daring and audacious, and recognized as Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist. But as a father of three young children, these qualities create tremendous turmoil between him and his wife Njeri. When he wants to…
More DetailsThe Sea Between Us
2019 | Canada | 102 MIN | Texas Premiere Friday, March 27 | 1PM In 1975, a bloody civil war broke out in Lebanon, in which around 250,000 people died. 25 years after the war ended, Shiites, Christians and Sunnis live together again in peace in the densely populated country, but the divisions of the…
More DetailsWhen We Walk
2019 | USA | 78 MIN | Texas Premiere Thursday, March 26 | 1:30PM Sunday, March 29 | 3PM Filmmaker Jason DaSilva has been living with a severe form of multiple sclerosis for over 10 years. In his wheelchair, Jason begins to realize just how many places he is unable to experience with his son.…
More DetailsWoke the Monster
2019 | USA | 57 MIN | Texas Spotlight Thursday, March 26 | 6:30PM Friday, March 27 | 1:30PM 18 months ago, Army veteran Shawn Livingston was strung out on heroin, battling PTSD and addiction, and facing a 20-year prison sentence. Now, he is preparing for the race of his life: a 100-mile trail race through the rugged terrain of the…
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