Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund turns the lens on her own mother, art collector and philanthropist Agnes "Aggie" Gund. Through her dogged support of emerging artists - especially women and people of color - Aggie demonstrates the potential for collectors and benefactors to seek social justice, while also advocating vociferously for everyone to have access to the arts regardless of background. Inspiring and intimate, this portrait of a vanguard figure is not to be missed.

This entertaining and informative documentary tells the history of Curve, the best-selling lesbian lifestyle magazine ever published. Following the pioneering exploits of its founder, Franco Stevens, *Ahead of the Curve* charts the groundbreaking cultural impact that Curve had on lesbian politics and visibility. Curve broke new ground in centering the diversity of the lesbian experience, drawing attention to problems that persist to this day. Featuring appearances by lesbian royalty Melissa Etheridge and Lea DeLaria.

Meet Joy Buolamwini, your new favorite superhero. Shalini Kantayya's sobering and gripping documentary plays like an episode of "Black Mirror" as we meet Buolamwini, an irrepressible "poet of code" who, while working at MIT, discovers deep inaccuracies in facial recognition technology when it encounters dark-skinned or female faces. She then sets out to do something about it, forming the "Algorithmic Justice League" to combat inequities in both who codes and how technology ought to be regulated.

CENTERPIECE FILM *Coming Clean*, the latest from virtuoso documentarian Ondi Timoner, examines the opioid crisis from the inside, exploring the painful experiences of those in recovery and of policymakers working to undo the systems and industries that perpetuate - and even thrive off of - addiction. This timely documentary offers innovative solutions, while also exposing the uphill battle against the forces of corporate greed and deeply-held stigmas.

Documentarian Ursula Liang takes a new angle on police brutality, unpacking the murder of Akai Gurley, an unarmed Black man shot in a New York City public housing stairwell by police officer Peter Liang (no relation). The shooting and subsequent trial set in motion a bitter clash between two minoritized communities, with Chinese American and Black protestors each demanding equity in the eyes of the law and on the streets of the city. WISCONSIN ONLY; AVAILABLE THROUGH 10/18

Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize, *Epicentro* is an immersive and thought-provoking documentary about Cuba through an affectionate cinephile lens. Over its history, Cuba has been influenced time and again by imperialist forces. Director Hubert Sauper posits that the very act of filmmaking can be an imperialist act and interrogates these influences with "remarkable fluidity and gracefulness that's consistently engaging and surprising." (The Hollywood Reporter)

Chinese botany grad student Zhang Yingying arrived at the University of Illinois in April 2017. By June, she had disappeared. One part true crime and one part elegy, Yingying's former classmate Jiayan "Jenny" Shi reconstructs Yingying's homesick, tentative days in Illinois in this feature debut. Using her diary as a guide, Shi hopes not only to find some semblance of justice for a truly horrific crime, but also to capture the spirit lost.

A conversation between a filmmaker and an activist sets the stage for a deeper exploration into the challenges Puerto Rico has faced, from the landfall of Hurricane Maria to the efforts to oust Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. This captivating documentary weaves intersecting storylines that chronicle how the hurricane's aftermath has affected the country’s residents in rural and urban spaces, as well as those who seek to capitalize off of the island’s tragedy.

At once otherworldly and familiar, this film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier's wanderings as they contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and the place in between. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, their stories depart from the Chinookan origin of death myth, with its distant beginning and circular shape. MFF alum Sky Hopinka returns with this feature debut, allowing the viewer to also wonder and wander as we question humanity's place alongside and within the natural world.

Legendary neurologist and storyteller Oliver Sacks redefined our understanding of the human brain, exploring previously unknown facets of the mind. This documentary explores the life and work of Sacks, documenting his struggles with drug addiction, homophobia, and the prejudiced medical establishment that ignored his work for years. *Oliver Sacks: His Own Life* is an intimate portrait of one of the most enigmatic scientific figures of our time. WISCONSIN ONLY

Jo Ardinger's moving documentary explores the national impact of personhood legislation, which establishes rights for unborn fetuses often over those of the woman carrying the child. Centered in this film is the emotional legal saga of Medford, Wisconsin, resident Tammy Loertscher, whose attempts to improve her mental and physical health upon discovering her pregnancy land her in protective custody. Her fetus is given a lawyer, but she is not granted one.

Winner of a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, *Softie* follows brazen and inspiring Kenyan photojournalist-turned-activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi as he turns to a political run as a way to continue his pursuit of justice for all. Soko's documentary deftly provides a long-term view of hope in the face of corruption, though it also reveals that speaking truth to power is a hard-fought battle with few clear wins along the way.

Abby Ainsworth follows 30 young chefs, selected from over 1,500 applicants across the globe to intern in the kitchen at Mugaritz, a renowned molecular gastronomy restaurant nestled in the hills of Basque country, under the discerning eye of its founder. Witnessing this experience, known as a “stage” in the culinary world, reveals the pressures and challenges facing the next generation of rockstar chefs as they develop their inspiration, creativity, and technical skills.

Famed socialite author Truman Capote is at the center of this riveting documentary that sheds new light on the final days and works of one of America’s towering literary figures. Based on newly discovered interviews conducted by The Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton, *The Capote Tapes* examines Capote’s unfinished final novel, which caused a scandal when published excerpts exposed the secrets of a Manhattan social aristocracy that had adopted Capote as its own. WISCONSIN ONLY

This funny and provocative documentary challenges the double standards of women’s sexuality. Women’s bodies are used to sell practically everything, but women’s actual desires are ignored and demonized. Following four pioneering women in the fight for “cliteracy," *The Dilemma of Desire* features a neuroscientist, an artist, a medical doctor, and an industrial designer of vibrators as they fight against male-dominated medical biases that shortchange the power of the clitoris and its role in sexual pleasure.

Weaving together three stories about work in the 21st century, *The Disrupted* follows a laid-off union factory worker in Ohio, a rideshare driver in Florida, and a fifth-generation farmer in Kansas, all struggling to cling to the American dream. Filmed in 2017, the film loses no force in 2020, and these characters never lose hope, inspiring the viewer to look for innovative approaches to ending income inequality in our own community.

Meet the Donut King: Ted Ngoy, a vivacious 77-year-old Cambodian refugee who found the American dream in the center of a doughnut. Alice Gu's remarkable debut is a peppy character study of Ngoy, wrapped in a deeper look at the refugee population's proliferation of doughnut shops in Southern California. This film serves at once as a celebration of the doughnut and a testament to the tenacity of immigrants to remake their lives in America. WISCONSIN ONLY

Because of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, aspiring ballplayers leave their country under dangerous circumstances to establish residency in South American countries. This documentary follows Happy, Carlos, and Victor, three Cuban baseball players who leave their families and risk exile in order to follow their dreams of playing in the major leagues. Hoping to sign multimillion-dollar contracts like José Abreu and Yasiel Puig, the three tenacious players risk everything in their drive for success.

Based on Naoki Higashida's best-selling nonfiction book of the same name, director Jerry Rothwell takes the viewer inside the experience of autism spectrum disorder, using all the cinematic tools available to create a graceful sensory experience of neurodiverse life. Like *Notes on Blindness* (MFF2016), this Sundance audience award-winning film is not to be missed if you seek to gain humane, experiential understanding of those who experience our world through different sensory lenses.

Follow four Americans as they travel the country in an effort to bridge political division. From Susan Bro, reluctantly called to activism after losing daughter Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, to Milwaukeean Steven Olikara, founder of the Millennial Action Project, they all seek to mend division and find the human bond that crosses the aisles of our partisan nation. This film is a balm before Election Day, reminding us that even within division, connection is possible.