Films

Here are the films!!! Check back for more additions to the schedule.

COOKED Work in Progress with Judith Helfand

In July 1995 during a heat wave in Chicago; 739 people died in one week. Survival was determined by the neighborhoods where people lived: air-conditioned supermarkets and movie theaters or quick-marts and boarded-u... Read More


CREATE, LIBERATE, AGGREGATE!!! Workshop with Christine Vachon

No one embodies the spirit of this year's festival better than veteran film producer of more than sixty films, Christine Vachon. Learn about emerging models of distribution, the challenges of finding financing, the... Read More


FISH OUT OF WATER

You might think you know where the Bible stands on the subject of homosexuality, but when was the last time you actually checked? In the spirited documentary Fish out of Water, filmmaker Ky Dickens explores... Read More


GROWING UP FEMALE

Growing Up Female is one of the first films of the modern women's movement and has become a powerful tool to examine the second wave feminist movement. Produced in 1971, it caused controversy and exhilarati... Read More


IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY

What’s a 16-year-old boy doing playing music and table tennis with adult psychiatric patients – on a school day? It’s Kind of a Funny Story, adapted from Ned Vizzini’s 2006 novel of the same name, is... Read More


MONICA AND DAVID

The documentary film Monica and David explores the marriage of two adults with Down Syndrome and the family members who strive to support their needs. Monica and David are blissfully in love and want what o... Read More


NEW MUSLIM COOL

Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of drug dealing street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. Now he's moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild... Read More


NIGHT CATCHES US

In 1976, after years of mysterious absence, Marcus (Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker) returns to the Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age in the midst of the Black Power movement. While his arrival ... Read More


O’ER THE LAND with Deborah Stratman

*Also plays with It Will Die Out in the Mind
O’er The Land is a meditation on the milieu of elevated threat addressing national identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, patr... Read More


PORTRAITS: Short Films That Say a Thousand Words

Join us as we unveil a virtual portrait gallery of families, individuals, psyches, lost loves, hopes and fears. This collection of short films includes sparse, compelling documentaries that introduce mothers and ch... Read More


PRETEND NOT TO SEE ME

This documentary portrait examines the life of performance artist Colette Urban, who gives up her university career in the city to create a unique artist retreat in rural Newfoundland. Struggling to find a balance ... Read More


SCRAPPERS

Scrappers follows two Chicago families who make ends meet using brains, brawn, and battered pickup trucks. Shot in documentary verite style, the film focuses on work: finding metals, raising children and nav... Read More


SHOW & TELL: An Intimate Conversation with the Filmmakers of CJ2010

This panel discussion introduces filmmakers from different backgrounds and genres sharing their stories about how they were inspired to make films, their daily realities of being a filmmaker, and what they are work... Read More


SHOW ME FILMS: Screening/Workshop

Meet Katie Mustard and Holden Abigail Osborne. Both filmmakers originally come from Missouri and both have made groundbreaking short films about family. This screening/workshop is an in-depth look of the making o... Read More


ShowBUSINESS: The Business of Film Panel Discussion

You want to make a movie, but do you know how to get your film idea off the ground? Or once you’ve made the film, how do you get it in front of an audience? Join these creative and successful businesswomen in a... Read More


THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK

The Aviatrix of Kazbek is part epic romance set against the background of WWII and part magical surrealistic filmmaking. Eager to explore the world and break free from the restricting and suffocating reality... Read More


THE LAST TRUCK AND SWEATSHOP CINDERELLA

Nominated for an academy award, The Last Truck focuses on the workers of the General Motors Assembly Plant in Moraine, Ohio, which opened in 1981 and churned out an average of 280,000 small trucks and SUV... Read More


THE SARI SOLDIERS

Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal’s modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six women’s courageous efforts to shape Nepal’s future in the... Read More


THE SECRET LIFE OF GIRLS: CJFF Youth Media Program

Filmmakers as young as 8 and from as far away as Sudan (and as close as our own backyard!), this collection showcases some of the best short films created by young women aged 18 & younger. Exploring everything fro... Read More


TINY CIRCUS presents THE OTHER HISTORIES OF THE WORLD

Back to CJ by popular demand, The Other Histories of the World is a series of short, stop-motion animated films made with groups of children and adults around the US. Last year’s CJ festival’s fanciful ... Read More


TINY FURNITURE

22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dyi... Read More


WAR DON DON

In Krio, war don don means “the war is over,” and although today Sierra Leone is at peace, the specter of war remains ever-present. The documentary film War Don Don takes us to the heart of Sierra Leone ... Read More


WINTER’S BONE

The Sundance winner this year, Debra Granik’s subtle Missouri thriller Winter’s Bone has the kind of heroine we rarely see in cinema. A smart, strong, gritty no-nonsense seventeen-year-old with far to... Read More