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Bacurau

World Cinema · Drama · Cannes Film Festival

A small village in the Brazilian sertão town finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) are targeted by a group of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier… who may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.

Breathing

Drama · World Cinema

The acclaimed directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics is an eloquent, affecting portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty, this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on t…

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Sexuality · Documentary · Art Documentaries

THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars.

Concerning Violence

Sundance Film Festival · Historic Drama · Culture

From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.

Custody

Thriller · Drama · RT Certified Fresh

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this tense family drama that will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats.

The Daughter

Drama · World Cinema

Adapted from The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, a man returns to his hometown and unearths a long-buried family secret. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.

Finding Fela

Documentary · Music & Dance · Art Documentaries

Directed by Alex Gibney, this is the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and political importance and how his impact transformed the life of many Nigerians and rights activists throughout the world.

The Giants

Drama · World Cinema · Cannes Film Festival

THE GIANTS is a moving coming-of-age film about small kids with enormous hearts. Brothers Seth (Martin Nissen) and Zak (Zacharie Chasseriaud) are two young teens left to their own devices when their mother abandons them in their dead grandfather's house. As money grows thin during the long summer da…

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

African-American · Documentary

A look at the life of poet, Nikki Giovanni and the revolutionary historical periods through which she lived, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

LGBTQ · Comedy · Drama

Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis

Documentary · Historic Drama · Academy Award Nominees

King: A Filmed Record...from Montgomery to Memphis is the landmark 3-hr documentary that chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Academy Award nomi…

Le Capital au XXIE Siecle

Documentary

En mélangeant références à la pop culture et interventions d’experts parmi les plus influents de notre époque, le film est un voyage à travers l’histoire moderne de nos sociétés.

Obit.

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

Every day, editorial obituary writers deposit the details of a handful of extraordinary lives into the cultural memory. Obit. explores their world, inviting essential questions about life, history, and the inevitable passage of time.

Oh, Canada

Drama

Paul Schrader and Richard Gere reunite more than 40 years after American Gigolo in this moving portrait of an aging artist telling his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late.

A Paris Education

Drama

Shooting in timeless black and white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema, unsung auteur Jean Paul Civeyrac’s story of a young cinephile who moves to Paris for film school is an ode to the creative process and the heady days of student life.

Paul Verhoeven's Tricked

Tribeca Film Festival · Drama · Documentary

Part behind-the-scenes documentary, part narrative feature, PAUL VERHOEVEN'S TRICKED is the result of an ambitious experiment in filmmaking. Director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) shoots four minutes of the film Tricked, and crowd-sources the remainder of the script. With a brisk pac…

Private Desert

LGBTQ · Drama · World Cinema

When his internet girlfriend Sara goes missing, suspended police academy instructor Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil to look for her. What follows is a journey of the heart and a triumphant affirmation of queer love and humanity.

Skin Deep

Drama · Fantasy · Romance

Winner of the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival and directed by Student Academy Award® winner Alex Schaad. Subverting genre and gender as it toggles from body swap thriller to intimate relationship drama, Skin Deep tells a story that transcends bodies, embracing the endless fluid possibilit…

La Syndicaliste

Drama

This investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics tells the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), an influential head union representative who became a whistleblower and was violently targeted for exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector.

Thousand Pieces of Gold

Western · Romance · Historic Drama

Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie (Chris Coope…

Violeta Went to Heaven

Music & Dance · Romance · World Cinema

The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood (Machuca) traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of i…