In our oldest festival section, we are proud to present two fiction-feature and four documentary films. In LULA, Hollywood great Oliver Stone creates a sensitive portrait of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In her award-winning documentary BLACK BOX DIARIES, Shiori Ito, who was raped by the biographer of the sitting prime minister at the time, shares her years-long struggle against the patriarchal Japanese justice system. SUGARCANE takes us to a boarding school on a First Nations Community’s reservation of the same name, where the so-called “Indian problem” should be solved. UNCROPPED is a captivating and visually striking portrait of a New York legend, the long-time “Village Voice” photographer James Hamilton. In the family film CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT, four generations gather to celebrate the festival of love in a house on Long Island. In the sci-fi mystery thriller THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT, two siblings flee to a remote farm after a robbery and find themselves trapped in the past.
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