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Secrets & Lies: Through the Lens of Laura Poitras
Sat Feb 28

Flag Wars

COVER-UP, Directed by Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus, is Now on Netflix
YEAR
2003
ACCESSIBILITY
HI
RUNTIME
1h 26m
DIRECTOR
Linda Goode Bryant, Laura Poitras

SYNOPSIS

This show was originally scheduled for Sunday, February 15, and has been rescheduled for Saturday, February 28.

 

Set in Columbus, Ohio, Flag Wars follows what happens when black working-class families are faced with an influx of white gay homebuyers in their neighborhood. Filmed over four years, Flag Wars captures the raw emotions of unguarded moments between neighbors: the lesbian realtor who sells the area’s Victorian homes; a new homebuyer who moves to the area to live openly as a gay man; two longtime residents who are in court because of new housing codes; and the judge who hears their cases. From porch conversations and family dinners to public hearings and street protests, Flag Wars provides a rare and extraordinarily intimate account of the social and human consequences of capitalism and the pursuit of the “American Dream” told through the lives of residents in a community confronted by gentrification.

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Secrets & Lies: Through the Lens of Laura Poitras

COVER-UP, Directed by Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus, opens at Film Forum on December 19 | On Netflix December 26

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