IFC Films (Firm)

Brooklyn, 1973. When Shu’aib Raheem and his friends attempted to steal guns for self-defense, it sparked the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to avert a bloodbath, reform police methods, and save the lives of hostages, police, and the four young Muslim men at the heart of the conflict.

An internationally acclaimed, award-winning (and Oscar nominated) documentary film about the greatest operation to test nuclear weapons ever conducted by the United States. Staged at a remote Pacific atoll called Bikini in the summer of 1946, the tests (code-named Operation Crossroads) were also one of the first great ‘media events’ of the modern age. Using rare and mostly never-before-seen archival footage, the film unfolds through the eyes of...

A family of fur hunters thinks their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. While father Joseph is away tracking the wolf, his wife, Anne, and daughter find a man named Lou (Nick Stahl), who has been severely injured and left for dead. The longer Lou stays and Joseph is away, the more paranoid Anne becomes, and the idea of a mysterious predator in the woods slowly becomes a threat much closer to home.

This classic documentary by Errol Morris showcases workers in the animal burial industry while dealing with heavier existential questions regarding mortality and the afterlife. The first pet mortician featured is Floyd "Mac" McClure, who believes that a graceful burial is as important for pets as it is for people. The film chronicles his struggles to keep his niche business afloat, and interviews several of his associates and one of his competitors,...

Pierre Dulaine, an internationally renowned ballroom dancer, fulfills a life-long dream when he takes his dance program back to his city of birth, Jaffa. Over ten weeks, Pierre teaches 10-year-old Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli children to dance and compete together. The children are forced to confront issues of identity, segregation and racial prejudice as they dance with their enemy.

A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they'll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways...

The public life of Yves Saint Laurent was as extravagant as it was decadent, but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. In L'AMOUR FOU, Pierre Bergé, the man with which YSL shared four decades of his life and love, reflects on their equally extravagant personal relationship. Framed around the 2009 auction of the priceless, elaborate art collection amassed by Yves and Pierre, this extraordinary documentary provides an unprecedented...

After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of BAD AXE, Michigan,at the start of the pandemic, Asian American filmmaker David Siev documents his family’s struggles to keep their restaurant afloat. As fears of the virus grow, deep generational scars dating back to Cambodia’s bloody “killing fields” come to the fore, straining the relationship between the family’s patriarch, Chun, and his daughter, Jaclyn. When the BLM movement takes center stage...

Following Elvis' death in 1977, a masked mystery man emerged with the voice (and the jumpsuit) of The King. Who was Orion and was he really the second coming of Elvis?

This eye-opening documentary investigates the strange case of Anonymous hacktivist Matt DeHart, who fled the US to seek asylum in Canada after law enforcement brought charges against him for child pornography. But DeHart countered that he was framed, targeted for his support of Wikileaks, and that he was tortured in a US prison. Unfolding like a spy mystery, the film follows a multiyear quest for truth, with unexpected twists and turns until the very...