This year's Little Rock Film Festival lineup is one of the strongest in the event's history, with a high percentage of titles that won acclaim at Sundance, South by Southwest, True/False, Tribeca and other major festivals. Below are 10 films likely to be talked about by movie buffs around the country all year long:
Cartel Land. This revealing documentary follows two citizen militias -- one on the U.S. side of the border, the other spreading across Mexico -- as they try to fight drug-trafficking by sometimes questionable means.
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead. A documentary about the wild history of the satirical magazine National Lampoon.
H. A meteor causes the city of Troy, N.Y., to experience brushes with the supernatural in this trippy science-fiction film.
How to Change the World. The origins and contemporary relevance of Greenpeace.
How to Dance in Ohio. Soon to air on HBO, this moving documentary follows a group of autistic teenagers working on their social skills so that they can attend their first formal dance.
Krisha. Winner of the South by Southwest Grand Jury and Audience Awards and selected to screen at this year's Cannes film festival, Trey Edward Shults' debut fiction feature is an intimate study of a woman struggling to reconnect with her family over the holidays.
(T)ERROR. There's riveting, jaw-dropping footage in this you-are-there documentary about an undercover FBI sting operation gone wrong.
Uncertain. Fans of Errol Morris' early documentaries should enjoy this colorful, affecting story about a dying Texas town.
Western. Another documentary about drugs on the U.S./Mexican border, the latest by brothers Bill and Turner Ross focuses on a progressive community that gets more and more closed off, due to rising crime and government intervention.
White God. A hit at Cannes last year, this Hungarian fantasy/thriller concerns a pack of wild dogs exacting revenge on cruel humans.
-- Noel Murray
Style on 05/10/2015