AFF 2020 Feature Films

Through the work of Alan Magee, this film examines the ways in which art can address some of the greatest challenges that we face as a society—social injustice and violence, the increasing threats to our democracy, and the urgency of speaking truth to power.

When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, his great-granddaughter Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine.

Transgender high school athletes from across the country compete at the top of their fields, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.

The sage words of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson are lifted off the page and onto the stage in this joyful documentary about six remarkable theater students who compete against thousands in the grueling, high stakes August Wilson Monologue Competition.

H. Alan Scott, a gay former Mormon/converted Jew/cancer survivor/writer-comedian, as he finds his spiritual path and prepares for his Bar Mitzvah at age 34.

When night falls in rural Germany, old VW-caravans decorated with flashy lights line the country roads which lead through potato fields and dark forests. Inside theses buses prostitutes from Eastern Europe and Africa await their clients who are passing by.

Tracy Edwards stunned the world in 1989 when the 26-year-old sailor set a record skippering the first all-female crew on her yacht “Maiden” to a second-place finish in the Whitbread Round the World Race…

Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more famous, often estranged younger brother, tap dance legend Gregory Hines.

The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters.

On the front lines of Africa's poaching and extinction crisis with local people determined to protect threatened wildlife for future generations.

A Czech artist befriends the thief who stole two of her prized creations in this stranger-than-fiction story about empathy and new beginnings.

The dangerous, volatile world of Chicago’s South Side from the perspective of two remarkably gifted young boxers and the fathers who train them; as one begins a rising career in the ring, the other serves an eight-year-prison sentence for criminal trespass and burglary.

When Hallie Twomey loses her young son, a veteran, to suicide, she channels her grief into relentless passion with a digital plea to grant him a final journey that ignites a firestorm of CJ celebrations around the world.

In 1991 a group of countercultural visionaries built an enormous replica of earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2. When eight “biospherians” lived sealed inside, they faced ecological calamities and cult accusations. Their epic adventure is a cautionary tale but also a testament to the power of small groups reimagining the world.

This documentary uncovers the truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. It also introduces the heroes and the villains behind one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues.

Football and feminism collide in this documentary that follows former NFL cheerleaders battling the league to end wage theft and illegal employment practices that have persisted for 50 years.