November 9, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)

A poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, Just Above the Surface of the Earth reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.

November 9, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Coconut Head Generation

At Ibadan, Nigeria’s oldest university, a student association hosts a documentary screening and discussion group. In a country where dissent is frequently punished, this Thursday Film Series becomes a space for conversation and impassioned debate.

November 9, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Shorts Program #1: “the hills escape my gaze”

Using analogue, animation and digital filmmaking techniques, this collection of films explores memory, grief and personal transformation.

November 9, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Three Promises

Three Promises is the story of a mother and her camera, of a son and his suppressed memories, and of an entire country.

November 9, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: I Am My Own Woman

I Am My Own Woman tells life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement.

November 9, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: GST x Secret Cinema

To celebrate Gimme Some Truth, we’ve invited Brooklyn-based queer film historian Elizabeth Purchell to select a 16mm film from her own collection.

November 10, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Unimaginable

Accompanied by animated sequences, Lance narrates three key episodes that forever changed his life.

November 10, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Dahomey

From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), Dahomey is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution.

November 10, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Shorts Program #2: “suspicion or hope?”

The films in this collection explore how stories are documented and passed down, from beadwork and tattoo rituals, to phone numbers written on a bathroom wall.

November 10, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Mistress Dispeller

Offering strikingly intimate access to private dramas usually hidden behind closed doors, Mistress Dispeller follows a real, unfolding case of infidelity as Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis.

November 10, 2024

Gimme Some Truth: Gimme 10 in 30! Documentary Challenge

Gimme 10 in 30! is a new documentary incubator challenge wherein 10 participants chosen via random lottery draw were tasked with completing a new documentary film in 30 days.

November 12, 2024

Trash Cult Tuesdays: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 finds Nami continuing her quest for dark vengeance and becomes an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a male-dominated world.