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The Fantastic Story of South Sudan’s First Olympic Athlete—‘Runner’, dir. Bill Gallagher, 2019

A nuanced portrait of Guor Mading Maker, also known as Guor Marial, who survived the civil war and child slavery to become the first man from his country to participate in the Olympic Games

March 9th, 2020|Country: South Sudan, USA|

Chasing the Ambulance—‘Midnight Family’, dir. Luke Lorentzen, 2019

A timely, gripping documentary about a Mexican family running a private ambulance unwraps into a thrilling, universal narrative on the dangers that capitalism inflicts upon healthcare

March 4th, 2020|Country: Mexico, USA|

Moral Lines Blur in Illegal Kenyan Elephant Poaching—‘When Lambs Become Lions,’ dir. Jon Kasbe, 2018

Director Jon Kasbe spent four years in Kenya befriending both elephant poachers and the rangers fighting to stop them. Together, they created a human and honest narrative of morality’s murkier areas

February 18th, 2020|Country: Kenya, USA|

Water Tells Its Own Story–‘Aquarela,’ dir. Victor Kossakovsky, 2019

An elegiac documentary with an urgent message about climate change centers the narrative around aquatic bodies and lets the environment speak for itself

February 10th, 2020|Country: Denmark, Germany, Greenland, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela, Water|

An Anthology of the Best New Music from Burundi, Part II: Keeping Up With Kirundi

Burundi has it all: afrobeat, gangsta rap, golden-voiced goddesses, bongo flava and boy bands. Come for them, stay for the zip bag suits and Cassava-themed trap anthems

January 21st, 2020|Country: Burundi, USA|

The Sheltering Power of Art and Pedagogy in Occupied Palestine—‘Hurdle’, dir. Michael Rowley, 2019

An intimate documentary about two men who seek freedom from Israeli occupation through creativity and kinship unfolds into an antidote to toxic masculinity

January 19th, 2020|Country: Palestine, USA|

Barbadian-American Artist Mark King Augments Reality to See Changes in Human Behavior

An artist on a quest to find out how digital technology can benefit cognition, and his multidisciplinary approach, which includes graphic design, photography, fashion and psychology

January 16th, 2020|Country: Barbados, USA|

Pain Is Stronger Than Homophobia—‘Tu Me Manques’, dir. Rodrigo Bellott, 2019

A father seeks to get to know his dead gay son, as the son's ex creates a play that will change the country in a nesting doll of autobiographical narrative and fiction from Bolivia's leading director

December 19th, 2019|Country: Bolivia, USA|

Pretend It’s Summer Again: In Trinidad It Always Is—Trini Food at Pearl’s in New York City

A woman-owned place in Williamsburg dishes out bakes, rotis, curry stews and everything that has tamarind, coconut or rum in it by finding new heights for the diverse, flavorful Caribbean cuisine

December 12th, 2019|Country: Trinidad and Tobago, USA|

Poet, Artist, Two-Spirit, Immigrant, Sex Worker, Human—‘The Journey of Monalisa’, dir. Nicole Costa, 2019

Filmmaker tracks down her college friend from Chile in New York and creates a portrait of life full of integrity and dignity in circumstances which are not usually considered conventional

December 10th, 2019|Country: Chile, USA|

Book: Popol Vuh, trans. Michael Bazzett, 2018

The founding narrative of the K’iche’ people is finally available in English verse that delicately frames the glorious adventures of the Maya Hero twins in the underworld and beyond

December 2nd, 2019|Country: Guatemala, USA|

Film: Seadrift, dir. Tim Tsai, 2019

Documentary inquiry into the obscure event from 1970s Texas that can serve as a teachable moment for contemporary immigration issues in the US and abroad

December 1st, 2019|Country: USA, Vietnam|

An Island Feast With Wine-Drunk Pork at Zenon Taverna

Traditional Mediterranean meze and Cypriot specialties in a Queens bastion of simple, affordable and incredibly delicious food, which has been run by the same family for the last 30 years

November 21st, 2019|Country: Cyprus, USA|

A Dinner for Foodies and Cinephiles Alike: List of 5 Films About Food and Community That Pair Well With Meals

An international gourmet meal in five courses of cinema: diversity beer, weed soup, and protest tea, with plushies and spirits as guests—a tasting menu to nourish all senses

November 14th, 2019|Country: Aruba, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, USA|

Film: A Fresh Perspective, dir. Aaron Hosé, 2019

In the economy of craft beer making, which currently enjoys a multibillion boom worldwide, few spaces are occupied by minorities: a documentary short sheds light on how that's changing

November 7th, 2019|Country: Aruba, USA|