Deaf Jam is the story of deaf teen Aneta Brodski’s bold journey into the spoken word slam scene. When Aneta, an Israeli immigrant living in the Queens, meets Tahani, a hearing Palestinian slam poet, the two women embark on a collaboration creating a new form of slam poetry that speaks to both the hearing and the Deaf.
Rec. Grade Levels Archives: 10
Evolution of a Criminal
After 10 years, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns to his hometown to examine how his robbery of a bank affected his family, friends and other victims.
Flex Is Kings
Filmmakers Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols turn their cameras on a group of Brooklyn dancers and street performers whose talent may provide them with the means of transcending their meager beginnings in this inspirational, visually-striking documentary.
Forbidden Games
A timeless evocation of childhood innocence corrupted, René Clément’s Forbidden Games tells the story of a young girl orphaned by war and the farm boy she joins in a fantastical world of macabre play. At once mythical and heartbreakingly real, this unique film features astonishing performances by its child stars and was honored with a special foreign language film Academy Award in 1952.
Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens is a hypnotic, tragic and affectionate classic, featuring 79-year-old Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy. Sharing a decaying seaside mansion with countless cats and rodents, the disarmingly eccentric duo competes for attention, revealing a complex relationship, as well as some famously far-out fashion experiments.
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