Club Casanova, home of the legendary Drag King Night in New York City, is the point of departure for an iconic gender odyssey, where women become men – some for a night, others for a lifetime. Starring Drag King pioneers Mo B. Dick, Diane Torr, DRED, Bridge Markland, renowned poet Storme Webber a...

Filmed over three years, this documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It captures David Hockney’s return from California to paint his native Yorkshire, outside, through the seasons and in all weathers. It tells the story of a homecoming and gives a revealing portrait of ...

From the director of Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams and the Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Instruments of a Beating Heart comes a heartfelt exploration of Japanese identity as seen through the perspective of schoolchildren.

Tsukado, located in one of Tokyo’s sprawling suburbs, is one of the...

A Film by Lena Anderson & Christina Bjork
In this animated journey to Claude Monet's garden at Giverny, a young girl named Linnea and her friend Mr. Bloom explore the world of Impressionist painting and uncover the mystery and beauty of art and nature. Through vivid animation that mirrors Monet's...

Dusty & Stones chronicles the remarkable ride of cousins Gazi “Dusty” Simelane and Linda “Stones” Msibi, a struggling country music duo from the tiny African Kingdom of Swaziland who long for their big break.

When they are unexpectedly invited to record in Nashville and to compete in a Texas bat...

Digitally restored from the original 35mm print, Jan Svankmajer's classic animated film ALICE is available in HD VOD for the first time!

When Alice follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so begins this dream expedition into the astonishing landscape of childhood, through many dangerous advent...

* Available in the US only
** 3-day access with unlimited viewing
*** BONUS CONTENT: Includes special Q&A with director Beatrice Minger and actor Natalie Radmall-Quirke, who plays Eileen Gray. Moderated by ADFF Festival Director Kyle Bergman. ***

She designed a sanctuary for herself. Unfortunate...

The thrilling story of how one man helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis.

In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and ...

From director Asori Soto and the executive producers of Jiro Dreams of Sushi comes a unique film about food, society and culture on the island of Cuba. After a decade living in the United States, Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood - a journey t...

In this film by Academy Award winner Cynthia Scott, seven old women become stranded at a deserted farmhouse miles from civilization. They don't have much food, or a decent place to sleep. Or much in common. But these surprising, remarkable women turn a crisis into a magical time of humor and spir...

Design history was born in a cavernous warehouse on a gritty street in Venice Beach, California, where Charles and Ray Eames set up their Renaissance-style studio in the optimistic flush of American victory during World War II. Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey's definitive cinematic foray into the worl...

Beginning in the 1920s, Black singers across the country took to the highways as the new technology of radio and records made it possible to reach a wider audience. Intense competition brought new ways to entertain, first with guitars, later with full bands, then with a performance style that wou...

Cat City chronicles Chicago's love/hate relationship with feral cats. It tells the story of Chicago's outdoor cats and the communities who look after them.

What is the right way to care for feral cats and who gets to decide? A ground-breaking 2007 ordinance protects feral cats in Chicago that ha...

Doug Butler is a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer with an offbeat passion — dog mushing.

When he risks losing the only home he's ever known to chase his dreams of competing at the world championships in Alaska, Doug must confront the devastating realities facing family-owned farms in a corporat...

When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle – "I think I may be dying!" – he takes it as a summons. As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five year...

Baseball is life for the die-hard competitors in the 100th annual Koshien, Japan's wildly popular national high school baseball championship, whose alumni include U.S. baseball star Shohei Ohtani and former Yankee Hideki Matsui. But for Coach Mizutani and his players, cleaning the grounds and gre...

FRF presents Daniel Karslake's new documentary FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales of this virtual film will benefit...

From the director of FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO, Dan Karslake's new film explores the intersection of religion, sexual orientation and ge...