Alex Morelli

Truth or Dare

Alex Morelli

The fate of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke has preoccupied historians, archeologists, and writers for centuries—many obsessed with recovering a white European origin story that predates Plymouth and Jamestown. In the age of YouTube conspiracy theories, it has never been easier to participate in American myth-building.

Viaggio

Alex Morelli

During a trip to Italy, a relationship falters. An autofictional travelogue unearthed from neorealist landscapes.

The Island Man

Alex Morelli

Though he is long gone, buried on the Greek island he left behind as a teenager, John remains a painful mystery to his former wife, children, and grandson. On rediscovering his home movies, they begin to reconcile the troubled man they knew with the person he might have been. A film about memory, loss, and being caught between two homes.

الميت ما بيموت

Max McGillivray, Alex Morelli

Reem Atassi

A refugee's dinner routine is transformed when she begins to hear the voices of those she has lost. Based on a short story by Syrian writer Jehan Sayed Issa.

Becoming

Alex Morelli

As the US ramps up border enforcement during summer 2019, a formerly undocumented activist prepares for her naturalization test. In impressionistic scenes that link North Carolina with the Arizona borderlands, the film playfully interrogates the paradoxes of citizenship.