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Acasa, My Home

Acasa, My Home

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, an abandoned water reservoir just outside the bustling metropolis, the Enache family lived in perfect harmony with nature for two decades, sleeping in a hut on the lakeshore, catching fish barehanded, and following the rhythm of the seasons. When this area i…

Act of God

Act of God

Earth Day · Documentary

Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal's (Manufactured Landscapes) captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects o…

Afghan Star

Afghan Star

Music & Dance · Sundance Film Festival · RT Certified Fresh

In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American Idol-style series Afghan Star. Like its Western predecesso…

Against the Current

Against the Current

Sports · Documentary

Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak over 2,000 kilometers around Iceland, counter-clockwise and “against the current.”  Veiga’s personal journey is no less remarkable.  Veigar had a wife and family but deci…

Archangel

Archangel

Drama · RT Certified Fresh · Romance

In 1919, one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles arrives in the northern Russian town of Archangel where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I.

Ballets Russes

Ballets Russes

Music & Dance · RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia became not one bu…

Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint

Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint

Staff Picks · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painti…

Bill Cunningham New York

Bill Cunningham New York

RT Certified Fresh · Photography · Documentary

“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society…

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Animation · Drama · Sci-Fi

A giant talking frog and an elusive cat help a listless bank employee, his traumatized wife, and a lonely accountant seek meaning in their lives and possibly save Tokyo from catastrophe.

Blue (Derek Jarman)

Blue (Derek Jarman)

LGBTQ · Documentary · World Cinema

In his final—and most daring—cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, B…

Brakhage

Brakhage

Film Documentaries · Biography · Documentary

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of the greatest artists of our time. From 1952, at the age of nineteen, until his death, Brakhage created more than 400 films, ranging in length from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consi…

Careful

Careful

Comedy · Romance · Drama

Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents —adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangl…

China Heavyweight

China Heavyweight

Sports · China · Sundance Film Festival

Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) returns to China for another riveting documentary on that country's ever-changing economic landscape—this time through the lens of sports. In China Heavyweight, Chang follows the charismatic Qi Moxiang, a former boxing star and state coach wh…

China: A Century of Revolution

China: A Century of Revolution

China · Documentary

CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION is a six-hour tour de force journey through the country’s most tumultuous period. First televised on PBS, this award-winning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical comment…

La Civil

La Civil

Drama · Cannes Film Festival

Cielo learns her daughter has been kidnapped in Northern Mexico. With no police support, Cielo embarks on her own investigation in an increasingly desperate effort to save her child.

The Corporation

The Corporation

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

One hundred and fifty years ago, the Corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the Corporation is today's dominant institution.

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

LGBTQ · Biography · Documentary

Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity, attitude and self-understanding. This ground-breaking work combines interviews with Tom (prior to his death in 1992) and his leather men acolytes with hundreds o…

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Film Documentaries · Documentary

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: it is about the deeply gifted and flawed people behind a dark and difficult masterpiece; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era.

Diplomacy

Diplomacy

History · Drama · RT Certified Fresh

In this riveting adaptation of the stage success by Cyril Gély, the great Volker Schlöndorff (Academy Award winner THE TIN DRUM) has created a psychologically elaborate game of political manners between two highly contrasting characters, hoping to prevent the destruction of Paris, France…

Diva Dolorosa

Diva Dolorosa

Film · Film Documentaries · Documentary

In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit of the World War One-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as La donna nuda(1914), and Tigre reale (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina…

The Divine Order

The Divine Order

Tribeca Film Festival · Drama · World Cinema

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Divine Order is set in Switzerland in 1971 where, despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women were still denied the right to vote. Uplifting and crowd-pleasing, this charming, captivating …

The Doctor from India

The Doctor from India

Documentary

The Doctor from India is a meditative and immersive portrait of the life and work of Dr. Vasant Lad, the holistic health pioneer who first brought the ancient medical practice of Ayurveda from India to the West in the late 1970s.

The Draughtsman's Contract

The Draughtsman's Contract

Drama

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse

Biography · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Dying of a brain tumor at age 34, she had a mere decade-long career that, despite its brevity, is dense with comp…

Examined Life

Examined Life

Earth Day · Documentary

In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Film Documentaries · Documentary

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, this film captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish li…

The Garden (Jarman)

The Garden (Jarman)

Drama

Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, THE GARDEN was born of director Derek Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis – writhing with sorrow and anger, and yet so vividly alive to the loveliness of being.

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Documentary

Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don’t recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanl…

Hive

Hive

Drama · RT Certified Fresh · Earth Day

Sundance triple award winner Hive is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who has battled grief and financial struggle since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In hope of providing for her family, she launches a business selling hot pepper pre- serves, a controversi…

Holy Cow

Holy Cow

Comedy · Drama · Comedy Drama

After the tragic death of his father, 18 year old Totone is thrust into the unexpected and very adult role of looking after his younger sister and their failing family farm in the Jura section of France.

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

Documentary

From Brooklyn beginnings to literary pantheon, Norman Mailer's unorthodox trajectory spans marriages, offspring, accolades. Unprecedented glimpse into preeminent 20th-century author's private and public worlds through intimate biography.

In Balanchine's Classroom

In Balanchine's Classroom

Music & Dance · Ballet · Documentary

In Balanchine's Classroom takes us back to the glory years of Balanchine’s New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to fulfill the vision of a genius. Opening the door to his studio, Balanchine’s private laboratory, they reveal new facets of the…

Lightning Over Braddock and Collected Shorts: The Films of Tony Buba

Lightning Over Braddock and Collected Shorts: The Films of Tony Buba

Comedy · Documentary

Two-disc collection of the newly restored films of Tony Buba, starting with his 1970s shorts and working its way through his feature-length masterpiece Lightning Over Braddock: A Rust Bowl Fantasy (1988).

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

Documentary

This star studded tribute brings into focus the dazzling, complex period of Liza Minnelli’s life starting in the 1970s, just after the tragic death of her mother Judy Garland— as she confronts a range of personal and professional challenges on the way to becoming a bona fide legend.

Love, Cecil

Love, Cecil

RT Certified Fresh · Photography · Documentary

A photographer, writer, painter, and Oscar®-winning set and costume designer who captured both the front lines of war and the Queen’s official portrait, Cecil Beaton embodied the cultural and political changes of the twentieth century. In Love, Cecil, director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Dian…

Loving Highsmith

Loving Highsmith

Lesbian · Documentary

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.

M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

Biography · Documentary · Artists

The story of world famous Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher. Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait gives us the man through his own words and images.

My Wonderful Wanda

My Wonderful Wanda

Tribeca Film Festival · Comedy · Drama

Winner of awards at Tribeca and Vancouver, MY WONDERFUL WANDA is a delightful satire of the haves and the have-nots set against the backdrop of a gorgeous lakeside villa in Switzerland. At the story’s center is Wanda (Agnieszka Grochowska) a Polish caretaker who has left her own small children…

The Old Oak

The Old Oak

Drama · RT Certified Fresh

When a group of Syrian refugees move into a once thriving mining village in northern England, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest inhabitants.

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

History · Documentary · Science

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact.

Poison

Poison

Drama

Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves trio of transgressive tales-“Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo”-that build toward a devastating climax.

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

Marion Stokes, a civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day for over 30 years.

Sophie Scholl -The Final Days

Sophie Scholl -The Final Days

Based on True Story · World Cinema · Academy Award Nominees

The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearl…

Sorry We Missed You

Sorry We Missed You

Drama · tiff · Cannes Film Festival

The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy”.

A Space Program

A Space Program

Documentary

In A Space Program, a piece of art in its own right and a recording of Sachs’ historic piece, Space Program 2.0: MARS, internationally acclaimed artist Tom Sachs takes us on an intricately handmade journey to the red planet, providing audiences with an intimate, first …

Taking Venice

Taking Venice

Documentary

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with culture. The Venice Biennale, the world’s most influential art exhibition, becomes a proving ground in 1964. Alice Denney, Washington insider and friend of the Kennedys, recommends Alan Solomon, an ambitio…

Tales From the Gimli Hospital Redux

Tales From the Gimli Hospital Redux

Comedy · Fantasy · Drama

Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL (1988) is a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room.

The Unmaking of a College

The Unmaking of a College

Politics · Documentary

In The Unmaking of a College, students at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts confront their new president’s underhanded attempt to shut down the school and discover powerful machinations at work.

What is Democracy?

What is Democracy?

Documentary

Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted. Director Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-g…

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

Nature · Earth Day · Documentary

In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.

Working Woman

Working Woman

Drama · World Cinema

To help support her family Orna (Liron Ben Shlush) returns to the workplace, landing a job with a former army superior, Benny (Menashe Noy) who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to balance its demands with her home life, she begins to experienc…

A Zed & Two Noughts and The Falls: Two Films by Peter Greenaway

A Zed & Two Noughts and The Falls: Two Films by Peter Greenaway

Drama

Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber are proud to present two of Peter Greenaway’s crowning achievements in this captivating two-disc set.

Zen for Nothing

Zen for Nothing

Documentary

Swiss novice Sabine arrives at Antaiji and, after a brief welcome, she begins to learn the monastery rules: how to bow, sit in the meditation hall, carry out movements with chopsticks, etc. There’s more to life there than meditation, farming, and maintenance, however—there are picnics, m…