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A Matter of Size

Comedy

An Israeli comedy (yes, comedy!) like nothing you've seen before, a hilarious and heart-warming tale about about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling!

A Walk With Kiarostami

Film Documentaries

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before. The interview was conducted over a span of two days during the Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland in 2003. In the first…

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

Music & Dance · RT Certified Fresh · Sundance Film Festival

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…

Ajami

Academy Award Nominees · RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrow…

Alila

World Cinema · Jewish Interest

Amos Gitai's ALILA tells the story of over a dozen distinct characters who inhabit an apartment complex located in a rundown neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel.

Applause

Drama

Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen) has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys.

Army of Crime

Based on True Story · World Cinema · Period Drama

In Robert Guédiguian’s taut, internationally acclaimed thriller, set during the French Resistance, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his French wife (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers — Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Spaniards and Arme…

Ayurveda: The Art of Being

Meditation · Health and Healing · Documentary

This visually lush documentary travels 10,000 miles throught India, Greece, and the U.S. to accompany practitioners of AYURVEDA - probably the oldest continually practiced holistic healthcare system in the world.

Back to Normandy

Documentary

Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf) travels to the Normandy countryside to catch up with the locals he helped cast in a movie three decades earlier - a starting point for a remarkably rich exploration of memory, history, madness, life and death, and, of course, t…

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…

Beaufort

RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema · Action & Adventure

Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, BEAUFORT chronicles the final days of an Israeli army unit's tense, painful withdrawal in 2000 from a strategic bunker inside a 12th century Crusader fortress near the Lebanese border, marking the end of nearly two decades of controversial occupation.

Below Sea Level

Documentary

Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. Rosi spent five years shooting BELOW SEA LEVEL, which documents the hand-to-…

The Big Animal

Drama · Comedy

A camel is left on couple's doorstep in this gentle parable about tolerance, directed by Jerzy Stuhr, written by Krzysztof Kiewslowski and filmed by Oscar-winner Pawel Edelman.

Billy Wilder Speaks

Documentary · Film Documentaries

Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking, from one of its undisputed masters.

Blind Mountain

In his first film since the acclaimed Blind Shaft, director Li Yang turns from corruption of China's illegal mining to the even more horrifying illegal trade of prostitution.

The Business of Fancydancing

Drama

Since their high school graduation, former Spokane Reservation best friends Seymour (Evan Adams, Smoke Signals) and Aristotle (Gene Tagaban) have taken different paths. Both ventured off to college in Seattle, but while Seymour embraced the opportunities of the white world, Aristotle returned home e…

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

Biography · Documentary

CAPTURED ON FILM deploys archival film clips, rare home videos and narration by Charlize Theron to explore Marion Davies' one-of-a-kind life and work.

Chi-hwa-seon

World Cinema · Cannes Film Festival · Period Drama

Im Kwon-Taek's ninety-fifth film tells the story of renowned nineteenth-century painter Jang Seung-up (Choi Min-Sik), an artist whose revolutionary work - and persona - forever changed the face of Korean art. Sweeping yet personal, Chihwaseon paints its pictures in passionate brushstrokes, befitting…

Chop Suey

Documentary

For over four years, Bruce Weber photographed one subject: Peter Johnson. What began as a photographic journey to document Peter’s transition from boyhood into manhood led to the making of the film Chop Suey. A deeply personal film, feeling very much like a film journal or a scrapbook, Chop Su…

Chris & Don. A Love Story

LGBTQ · Biography · Documentary

CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. Fro…

The Clay Bird

Drama · History

A family is torn apart by religion and war when young Anu is sent from his loving home to study at a strict madrasah in the months leading up to Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan.

Climates

Cannes Film Festival

Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT

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.

Cowards Bend the Knee

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Crossing the Line

Documentary

The first Western interview with Comrade Joe, James Joseph Dresnok, an American soldier who defected to North Korea in 1962 and has embraced life in the secret state ever since. From the director of A STATE OF MIND.

Cut-Up: The Films of Grant Munro

Animation · Short Films · Documentary

CUT-UP: THE FILMS OF GRANT MUNRO features a cavalcade of animated classics, live-action films and unreleased archives from the director known for his talent and all-out goofiness for over fifty years.

Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Sexuality

Dirty Diaries is a collection of twelve short pornographic films created by a group of feminist filmmakers in Sweden. The series of shorts is intended as a feminist response to traditional pornography -- porn films made by women to explore and celebrate, rather than exploit, female sexuality.

Divan

As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Many years later, Pearl takes a creative approach to mend the breach. She travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which esteemed rabbis once slept.…

Dogtooth

Cult · Drama · RT Certified Fresh

Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporar…

Double Take

Sundance Film Festival · Documentary · Film Documentaries

Johan Grimonprez's ingenious documentary/ fiction hybrid - a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia - looks at Alfred Hitchcock's 50s-60s films against the climate of Cold War anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage and a story by novelist Tom McCarthy, Grimonprez traces…

Dracula's Fiancee / Lost in New York

Cult · Horror · Fantasy

Dracula's Fiancee stars Jacques Regis as a vampire hunter whose pursuit of the descendants of Count Dracula leads him to a convent of supernatural beings from a parallel world. Also included is Lost in New York, a modern-day Alice in Wonderland in which two siblings explore the wastelands of Ma…

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

Vampires

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Dziga and His Brothers

Biography · Documentary

Using rare archival footage from Russian film archives, Dziga Vertov and brothers' lives are traced from Bialystok to Moscow, Paris, and the Hollywood hills.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 10: The End of an Era

Drama · Romance · Silent

Three short films (The Revolutionary, For Luck and Behind the Screen) from the end of Tsarist Russia round out this collection of cinematic history.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 3: Starewicz’s Fantasies

Drama · Silent · Fantasy

Featuring 3 surviving films from director Ladislas Starevich, including The Dragonfly and the Ant (1913), Christmas Eve (1913), and The Lily of Belgium (1915).  

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 4: Provincial Variations

Drama · Silent

Two films in pristine-as-can-be condition showcase how smaller provincial entrepreneurs broke their way into early Russian cinema.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 5: Petr Chardynin & Pushkin

Drama · Silent · Comedy

This volume features two brilliant adaptions from the great Alexander Pushkin's work, including The Queen of Spades (1910) and The Little House in Kolomna (1913).

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 6: Class Distinctions

Drama · Silent

The Peasants' Lot (1912) and Silent Witnesses (1914) present two different touchstones of early Russian cinema and views at late-Tsarist economic struggles.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 7: Evgeni Bauer

Drama · Silent · Comedy

These three films by the magnificent and macabre Evgeni Bauer reveal the distinctive eroticism and dark melodrama of early Russian cinema.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 8: Iakov Protazanov

Drama · Silent · Fantasy

Two films from esteemed Russian director Yakov Protazanov come together in this collection of cinematic history.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 9: High Society

Drama · Silent · Comedy

This volume includes a short comedy (Antosha Ruined by a Corset) a film by director Evgeni Bauer (A Life for a Life) and newsreel footage of an adored Russian star's funeral.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 1 and 2: Beginnings/Folklore and Legend

Drama · Short Films · Silent

This two-volume set features a half-dozen selection of some of Russia’s earliest cinematic productions.

Early Russian Cinema: A Unique Anthology in 10 Volumes

Drama · Silent · Comedy

Banned by the Soviet government and unseen for more than seventy years, these 26 pieces of cinematic history reveal the underappreciated excellence of filmmaking in Czarist Russia.

Edith Stein, Echt and the Truth

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Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon

Film · History · Documentary

In the early twentieth century, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon shot local footage of people in the north of England going about their daily activities, preserved and restored to offer a look back in time with an original score by In the Nursery.

Escape To Life: The Erica & Klaus Mann Story

“Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story” is the result of a remarkable pairing between fiction and non-fiction filmmakers Wieland Speck and Andrea Weiss. It depicts another remarkable relationship, between Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant eldest children of German author Thoma…

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.

Face

A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid leaving only the bones behind. The police turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the victim's bones in his house, Hyun-min's daughter begins to experienc…

Fados

Music & Dance · Documentary

Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). Tracing its African and Brazilian origins up to the new wave…

Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action

Spirituality · Buddhism · Documentary

Capturing the excitement of Spiritual Activism that is catalyzing the planet, FIERCE LIGHT illuminates the connection between spirituality and social change. Luminaries such as Alice Walker, John Lewis and Noah Levine share how their faith is a catalyst for political action.

Flannel Pajamas

Romance

Fearlessly shining a light into both the joyous, sexual, giddy high of love’s beginning, and on into the gradual but inevitable intrusion of the corrosive grind of everyday life, FLANNEL PAJAMAS dares to feature characters than can be as endearing and messy as those that inhabit our real lives…

Free Radicals (Barbara Albert)

Health and Healing

A group of friends in a suburban Austrian town reexamine their lives after the unexpected death of a young woman who appeared to be leading a charmed life.

Friendly Persuasion

Film Documentaries

“Friendly Persuasion” examines the critical issues of Iranian cinema by framing several key questions and providing informed responses through commentary, scene analysis, and interviews with top Iranian filmmakers. The questions focus on international flowering, censorship codes, ro…

From the Ashes - 10 Artists

Documentary

Artists in downtown Manhattan pick up the shattered pieces of their lives and reconsider their work after September 11.

From the Ashes: Epilogue

Artists · Documentary

One year later in the aftermath of September 11, downtown Manhattan artists are in their studios.

The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later

Documentary

Varda's exuberantly inventive 60-minute follow-up to her critically lauded essay film THE GLEANERS AND I,

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

Music & Dance · Art Documentaries · Music Documentaries

A vibrant chronicle of one of today's most notorious and revered live bands, this film follows Eugene Hutz's gypsy-punk brigade around the world as they spread their liberating libertine musical gospel. Hutz fuses his gypsy heritage with a love of punk rock and burlesque.

Griefwalker

Documentary

GRIEFWALKER is an extraordinary portrait of Harvard-trained theologian Stephen Jenkinson, who teaches that death empowers us to live and that we must know grief well in order to appreciate our own lives.

Happily Ever After

Drama

Writer-director Yvan Attal takes a "funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire" (Jami Bernard, NY DAILY NEWS) in HAPPILY EVER AFTER, a bittersweet comedy about the battle of the married sexes.