ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Encore showings 12:20pm Saturday, Oct. 21 and Sunday, Oct. 22 | Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7:15pm + Saturday Nov. 18 at 3pm | American Christian missionary John Chau was murdered when he tried to illegally contact and convert some of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous people.
ONE TAKE | Thursday, Dec. 14 at 7:15pm + Saturday at 3pm | The newest local documentary short films curated by the One Take Documentary Film Series. Featuring films from Cat Ashworth, Don Casper, Logan Gridlestone, and Tayton T. Troidl.
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, January 11 at 7:15pm + Saturday January 13 at 3pm | A portrait of three athletes with intellectual disabilities navigating life beyond the international spotlight of the Special Olympics World Games.
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7:15pm + Saturday, Feb. 17 | Filmmaker Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time.
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, March 7 at 7pm & Saturday, March 9 at 3pm | Five incredible women from around the world, who are boldly breaking glass ceilings in the male-dominated world of orchestral conducting, take center stage.
ONE TAKE DOC | 7pm Thursday April 25 & 3pm Saturday, April 27 | The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace.
ONE TAKE | Thursday, May 23 at 7pm + Saturday, May 25 at 3pm | Four short films from Rochester filmmaker Rashaad Parker.
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, July 18 at 7pm (with filmmaker Q&A) + Saturday, July 20 at 3pm| Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them?
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, August 15 and Saturday, August 17 | An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
ONE TAKE | Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7pm & Saturday, Sept. 26 at 3pm | Plastic People investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health. Presented with community partners, University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology.
ONE TAKE | Oct. 24 & 26 | Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
ONE TAKE x BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Thursday, November 21 & Saturday, November 23 | The documentary, from director Dawn Porter, chronicles the story of a vocal virtuoso, Luther Vandross. Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators including Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson and Roberta Flack.
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, December 19 and Saturday, December 21 | Locally-produced short documentary films, featuring work from Boris Sapozhnikov, Jackie McGriff, Vinh Nguyen, and Robert Bilheimer.
ONE TAKE | Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 7pm | A groundbreaking generative documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno, a film that’s different every time it’s shown.