St. Louis International Film Festival

Joseph Puleo’s award-winning documentary “A New Home” tells the stories of Bosnian War refugees who fled to St. Louis 30 years ago.

The 31st annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival runs through Nov. 13 and features more than 250 films.

With her new documentary, Aisha Sultan encourages audiences to reflect on the ways the coronavirus pandemic radically disrupted learning and children’s development.

Under Cinema St. Louis Executive Director Cliff Froehlich's leadership, the organization weathered the disruptions of the coronavirus pandemic. He retires in June.

Nina Gilden Seavey’s podcast connects the story of Howard Mechanic with that of another fugitive who spent time in Missouri: James Earl Ray, who was convicted of killing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Target: St. Louis Vol. 1" features stories from people who inhaled a harmful chemical compound that the federal government sprayed into Black neighborhoods for years.

The documentary film "Ferguson Rises" focuses on Michael Brown Sr. in the five years after the death of his son. Filmmaker Mobolaji Olambiwonnu joined “St. Louis on the Air” to discuss.

"America's Last Little Italy: The Hill" tells the story of a historic St. Louis neighborhood. The coronavirus pandemic changed the film's rollout last year, but director Joseph Puleo said that online streaming has attracted viewers from around the world.

Beau Willimon joins "St. Louis on the Air" to talk about how his documentary "Lights of Baltimore" sheds lights on the development of policing in Baltimore, early redlining practices and the disinvestment in Black communities around the U.S. He also talks about the free screenwriting class he's offering as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival.

St. Louis filmmaker Matthew Rice's "The Ballad of John Henry" is streaming as part of this year's extended St. Louis International Film Festival. The documentary delves into the folk hero John Henry's hardships of living under Virginia’s “Black codes” and the convict-lease program, an unjust legal system developed after the Civil War as a replacement for slavery.