Documentaries

Director Desmond Bell Attending!

Director Niccoló Bruna Attending
Dust: The Great Asbestos Trial documents how asbestos use has been steadily increasing, despite a large majority of developed countries banning the known carcinogen.

Ushio and Noriko’s marriage has been under a lot of emotional and financial strain—basically for all 40 years of it—but only now is it at risk of completely falling apart. Cutie And The Boxer is a documentary about two artists: Ushio, a Dadaist whose work is well-received but makes little money, and his wife Noriko, a comic artist who’s been treated like an assistant for most of their marriage. An emotionally challenging film, Cutie And The Boxer shows that, even in half-century long relationships, there’s still plenty that can be improved upon.

Director Kimberly Bautista Attending on April 17
Preceded by The Children Next Door

When her sister is found on the side of the road, lifeless and badly beaten, Rebeca takes to the corrupt justice system in Guatemala demanding that her sister’s killer is locked up. In this tragic documentary, we see how one sister’s fight for justice becomes a rallying cry for an entire nation.

Plays with Justice For My Sister

This hard-hitting film takes viewers on a family’s journey to overcome years of experiencing domestic violence and the atrocity of one horrific incident that shattered their lives.

For this provocative exposé on the modern food industry, filmmaker Katja Gauriloff travelled over 30,000 kilometers to witness a single can of ravioli being made. Throughout her travels across seven different countries, Gauriloff introduces the audience to seven different workers who all contributed to making this product, including a miner in Brazil, a pig farmer in Denmark, and a tomato picker in Portugal. Gauriloff eschews editorializing to allow the images and the workers’ emotional stories to speak for themselves.

US PREMIERE
Born This Way is a beautiful, harrowing portrait of two brave individuals who are willing to risk their lives to be themselves in the intensely homophobic country of Cameroon. Cedric and Gertrude try to blend in seamlessly in nation that believes homosexuality and witchcraft to be synonymous.

Director Attending
Arguably the most underappreciated band of the 1970’s, power-pop innovators Big Star finally get their due in this eye-opening tribute that not a single Twin Cities music fan has an acceptable excuse to miss. Director Drew DeNicola sits down with label execs, journalists, and musicians to discuss why it took so long for the public to truly latch on to this seminal band and why Big Star’s rise to superstardom never came.

While much of the scientific world has all but written off cold fusion as bad science, a small, unlikely group of cold fusion enthusiasts are convinced that it is the answer to our world’s energy woes. The Believers takes a look back at the year in which two scientists discovered the power of cold fusion, and examines the reasons why cold fusion was so heavily derided. Are these new band of scientists wasting their time, or will they prove the scientific community wrong with new discoveries in this misunderstood field?

Swiss cellist and pediatrician Beat Richner has performed as the light-hearted musician “Beatocello” for over 40 years, but recently he’s combined his two professions to save lives in impoverished Cambodia.