IFC Films (Firm)
1) MLK/FBI
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. This documentary lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King's activism throughout the '50s and '60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This remarkable documentary tells the amazing story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who rose to superstardom at the beginning of the 20th century as sideshow attractions, performing alongside the likes of Bob Hope and Charlie Chaplin. Ruthlessly exploited by their managers, the sisters ultimately sued for their freedom-which they won at a terrible cost. A gripping, roller-coaster tale of showbiz tragedy, BOUND BY FLESH puts a touchingly...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Focuses on two the families with young deaf children and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their Deaf identity.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
General Tso's chicken is a staple of Chinese-American cooking, and a ubiquitous presence on restaurant menus across the country. But just who was General Tso? And how did his chicken become emblematic of an entire national cuisine? Director Ian Cheney (King Corn) journeys from Shanghai to New York to the American Midwest and beyond to uncover the origins of this iconic dish, turning up surprising revelations and a host of humorous characters along...
5) Bad Axe
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of BAD AXE, Michigan,at the start of the pandemic, Asian American filmmaker David Siev documents his family’s struggles to keep their restaurant afloat. As fears of the virus grow, deep generational scars dating back to Cambodia’s bloody “killing fields” come to the fore, straining the relationship between the family’s patriarch, Chun, and his daughter, Jaclyn. When the BLM movement takes center stage...
6) The Flat
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
עברית
Description
At age 98, director Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she and her husband shared after immigrating from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Sifting through photos, letters, files, and objects, Goldfinger undertook the complex process of making sense of the accumulated ephemera of a lifetime. The result is a moving family portrait and an insightful look at the ways different generations deal...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A family of fur hunters thinks their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. While father Joseph is away tracking the wolf, his wife, Anne, and daughter find a man named Lou (Nick Stahl), who has been severely injured and left for dead. The longer Lou stays and Joseph is away, the more paranoid Anne becomes, and the idea of a mysterious predator in the woods slowly becomes a threat much closer to home.
8) L'amour fou
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The public life of Yves Saint Laurent was as extravagant as it was decadent, but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. In L'AMOUR FOU, Pierre Bergé, the man with which YSL shared four decades of his life and love, reflects on their equally extravagant personal relationship. Framed around the 2009 auction of the priceless, elaborate art collection amassed by Yves and Pierre, this extraordinary documentary provides an unprecedented...
9) Cow
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed director Andrea Arnold’s first documentary immerses the audience in life on a dairy farm in rural England through the eyes of Luma, a cow. Empathetic and nearly wordless, the film opens during calving season and captures a world of animal existence that is ordered around service to humans.
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
This eye-opening documentary investigates the strange case of Anonymous hacktivist Matt DeHart, who fled the US to seek asylum in Canada after law enforcement brought charges against him for child pornography. But DeHart countered that he was framed, targeted for his support of Wikileaks, and that he was tortured in a US prison. Unfolding like a spy mystery, the film follows a multiyear quest for truth, with unexpected twists and turns until the very...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Subtitled “Chronicle of a Present Absentee,” this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman’s family once lived. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections,...
13) Wolf
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Nederlands
Description
In this action-packed gangster saga, an ex-con with a flair for violence muscles his way up the criminal and kickboxing underworlds.
14) Magical Universe
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This captivating film reveals the wondrous world of a true American original: an 88-year-old, Barbie doll-obsessed recluse who creates extraordinary works of art.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Since buying her work by chance at auction, amateur historian John Maloof has crusaded to put this prolific photographer in the history books. Maier's strange and riveting life are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews...
18) Dirty Wars
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fearless journalist Jeremy Scahill leads us on a thrilling globe-trotting mission, exposing the truth behind America's expanding secret wars.
19) Blue Room
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Two adulterous lovers go from pillow talk to possible murder in this sexy, brain-teasing thriller directed by and starring Mathieu Amalric.
20) Dealt
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Prepare to be inspired and amazed by Richard Turner, one of the world's most renowned card magicians, who met adversity head-on and refused to let his disability define him.
