Paul Hafner would be the model octogenarian if he weren't penning a book called Hitler for Eternity. The former SS officer considers his life perfect in a documentary that tries to probe his conscience. More...

Jennifer Phang's exceptional feature debut is part apocalyptic allegory, part dysfunctional family drama about an Asian-American single mother, a destructive teenage daughter and a paranormally gifted son on the edge of crisis. More...

In Nicholas Klotz’s haunting mystery, a corporate psychologist starts to lose his grip when he has to investigate his company's CEO and uncovers long-buried secrets about the firm’s past. More...

A cabaret singer stuck working in a crummy nightclub wanders through the lives of the men who desire her in this feature—subject of the Festival's documentary competition film Finishing Heaven—shot in New York City in the 1970s. More...

With their signature humor and sympathy, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato document infamous madam Heidi Fleiss' long, strange trip through the Nevada desert and brothel politics to open Heidi's Stud Farm. More...

With a signature blend of action, humor and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world's toughest kitten-loving hero continues to unfold in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Bigger muscle, badder weapons and more ungodly villains arrive in an epic vision of imagination from Guillermo del Toro. More...

The wondrous strangeness and difficulty of daily life for a newly “adjusted” North Korean defector in South Korea forms the core of this gentle and moving drama about uprooted connections. More...

Formerly homeless teens examine the iconography of Hollywood as they trace their physical, emotional, virtual, and social connection (or disconnection) to this famous location. More...

The morning news, online chatting, race, immigration, and a trailing farmhouse are some of the timely subjects that young filmmakers from across the US explore in these candid, uncompromising, and always inspiring high school shorts.

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Two boys struggling to learn Italian, a Native-American girl growing up in the city, people gathering at a war memorial, two teens sharing their story of friendship—these are the people you will meet in this thought-provoking and highly entertaining collection of work by high school students.

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Both a portrait of a distinctly Hawaiian way of life and an incredible surf documentary, Highwater profiles the men and women who gather every year on Oahu's North Shore for big wave surfing's ultimate challenge. More...

Documentarian Kim Longinotto follows the experience of four boys at the unconventional Mulberry Bush School, where emotionally traumatized children who've been written off as lost causes get a last shot at fixing their lives. More...

It's Viva Hong Kong as Zheng Peipei headlines a triple threat of up-and-coming Shaw starlets. This effervescent backstage musical follows three sisters who find different paths to happiness on- and off-stage. More...

The overly-romanticized notion of finding oneself in an exotic land may not be all it's cracked up to be for five hapless twentysomethings traveling through South Asia in this delightful comedy. More...

Attacking the screen with his ridiculous hairdo, clueless hipster doofus Ethan attempts to win the heart of high school hottie Madison Sweet, only to find himself in competition with his own brother. More...

How I See It is a collection of short documentary films made by youths, ages 14 to 24, as part of Youth Digital Filmmakers, a statewide program of the California Council for the Humanities. The stories include candid snapshots from a broad swath of human experience, from formerly homeless youth seeking their place in the world to young Cambodian women in Long Beach examining the legacy of genocide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual youth in the Bay Area attempting to uncover queer history. More...

Three men fish from their hut on a frozen lake. To kill time, they talk about their lives in this snapshot of vanishing rural America. More...