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Acasa, My Home

Documentary · RT Certified Fresh

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…

Action U.S.A.

Indie · Action

Turns out a Texas stuntman-turned-filmmaker unleashed the most explosive, death-defying, bullet-riddled, grenade-launching, flame-broiled, anti-human megattack in independent film history back in 1989, and no one knew… UNTIL NOW.

Against the Current

Documentary · Sports

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…

Ahed's Knee

Cannes Film Festival · RT Certified Fresh · Drama

In this Cannes Jury Prize winner, a celebrated Israeli filmmaker is pushed into a spiral of rage when a government employee asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at a Q&A following a screening of his latest film at a remote desert library.

Alma's Rainbow

Lesbian · Drama · Comedy

Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn who live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.

American Delivery

Health · Documentary

Amid a growing maternal health crisis in the U.S.—especially for women of color—nurses are at the core of systemic efforts to catch new mothers before they fall through the broken healthcare safety net.

Amnesia

A one-minute video that compresses with an economy of time and textual editing a direct assault on the languages of hate and intolerance. 

Amrum

History · Drama · War

Director Fatih Akin (In the Fade) reunites with frequent collaborator Diane Kruger in this tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence in the waning days of WWII. On the windswept island of Amrum in northern Germany, a young farmboy sets out on a quest in an attempt to bring solace to his …

Anamorphosis

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The Annihilation of Fish

Romance · Drama

This charming film by celebrated Black independent filmmaker Charles Burnett stars Lynn Redgrave as a woman with an imaginary lover, Margot Kidder as her energetic landlady, and James Earl Jones as her love interest who is also battling unseen demons.  

Archangel

Romance · RT Certified Fresh · Drama

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.

Atonement

Drama

In the early days of the Iraq War, a split-second decision made by a U.S. Marine (Boyd Holbrook) during a tense standoff devastates an Iraqi family. Years later, aided by a New Yorker journalist (Kenneth Branagh), he seeks to reconcile with the family’s matriarch (Hiam Abbass), now living a fe…

Banel & Adama

Drama

Senegal's official submission to the Academy Awards®, Banel & Adama is a lush and lyrical fable that soars to the heights of longing and descends deep into the realm of myth, sending its protagonists' idyllic love on a collision course with their community’s customs.

Beasts Clawing at Straws

Crime · Comedy

A Louis Vuitton bag stuffed full of cash sends a group of hard-luck lowlifes on a desperate chase for the fortune in this pitch-black neo-noir crime thriller.

Being Maria

Drama · Based on True Story

Maria Schneider's rise to fame after "Last Tango in Paris" and its controversial production's impact on her life and career.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Drama · World Cinema

An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in director-co-writer Burhan Qurbani's audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel. 

Black Zombie

Documentary

Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried origins. Born from enslavement, spiritual belief, and resistance, it first emerged in Haiti before becoming one of pop culture’s most profitable monsters. The film traces its evolution fr…

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism

Documentary · LGBTQ · Lesbian

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism immerses the viewer in the San Francisco leather dyke scene, shattering assumptions about gender and lesbian sexuality, while broadening the discussion about personal expressions of eroticism and their political implications.

Bloom Up

Documentary · World Cinema

Pet shop owners by day and swingers by night, Italian couple Hermes and Betta grant filmmaker Mauro Russo total access to their lives, resulting in an honest and sex positive look at the swinger lifestyle that is fascinating and sensual without ever feeling vulgar or exploitative.

Boatman

Documentary · Earth Day · Spirituality

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.  His first feature, Boatman (1993), captures life and death on the Gang…

Bodies, Rest & Motion

Romance · Drama

Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, Phoebe Cates, and Eric Stoltz star in this left-field Gen-X romantic dramedy that harkens back to the anti-establishment cinema of the previous generation…fittingly, Easy Rider’s Peter Fonda makes a cameo appearance.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Documentary · RT Certified Fresh

In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design, drawing on over 100 clips from iconic movies and interviews with an all-star cast of women and non-binary film industry professionals.

Brakhage

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Biography

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…

Brighton 4th

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, a former Georgian wrestling champion travels from Tbilisi to Brooklyn to help his son find a way out of a gambling debt.

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Peabody Award Winners

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters traces the powerful story of how one of the most celebrated works of art to come out of the AIDS epidemic revitalized two disparate communities, 30 years apart, both struggling to make sense of the plagues of their generations.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Documentary · RT Certified Fresh

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…

Casablanca Beats

Crime · Romance · Drama

A former rapper takes a job at a cultural center in an underprivileged neighborhood in Casablanca and inspires his students to break free from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to live their passions and express themselves through the arts.

The Cherry Orchard

Based on Literature · Period Drama · World Cinema

Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling.

Chile '76

Period Drama · RT Certified Fresh · Historic Drama

Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, Chile ‘76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores a sheltered upper middle class woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement.

Cinema Sabaya

Drama

A young filmmaker (Dana Ivgy, Zero Motivation) teaching a workshop in a community center puts cameras into the hands of eight women, Palestinian and Israeli, and asks them to film their lives. As they share their footage, barriers are broken down, beliefs are challenged, and the women learn more abo…

Close to Vermeer

Documentary

Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever, mounted in early 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which garnered glowing international praise, sold out tickets through the entirety of its run, and even produced the shocking news that one classic work may not be by Vermeer after all…

Code of the Freaks

Film Documentaries · Documentary

In an unprecedented look inside the disabled community, Code of the Freaks gives the mic to some of Hollywood’s most incensed and ignored critics – actual disabled people.

The Comb (from the Museums of Sleep)

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Costa Brava, Lebanon

Environment · Drama · World Cinema

Nadine Labaki stars in this award-winning near-future drama about a close-knit family who have built a mountain refuge from the environmental crisis, only to have their serenity intruded upon by a government sponsored landfill that threatens to upend their relationships and way of life.

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future

Drama · World Cinema

When the long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface of a polluted river gasping for air, her shocking return sends her family into turmoil while also offering an opportunity for healing in this poignant and stunning magical realist tale.

The Currents

Drama

In this gripping psychological mystery, Argentinian fashion designer Lina travels to Switzerland to accept an award, where she is seized by the sudden urge to plunge into an icy river. Back in Buenos Aires, she tells no one of the incident, but a transformation has taken place within her. Left with …

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Documentary · Biography · LGBTQ

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…

Daytime Revolution

Documentary · Music Documentaries · Music

Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five …

Dead Souls

For his directorial swan song, Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell) stars in this frontier fable of American greed. Follow mysterious drifter ‘Strindler’ as he scours the West for the names of dead Mexican labourers. Here at this border town in 1890, Strindler &…

Dear Mr. Brody

Documentary

When 21-year-old hippie-millionaire Michael Brody Jr. decided to give away his $25-million fortune to anyone in need, he ignited a psychedelic spiral of events.  In this riveting follow-up to 2016’s TOWER, award-winning director Keith Maitland reveals the incredible story of Michael Brody…

Denise Ho – Becoming the Song

Music Documentaries · Documentary · Lesbian

Denise Ho – Becoming the Song profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented, years-long access, the film explores her remarkable journey from commercial Cantopop superstar to outspoken political activist, an artist who has put her l…

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.

Diabolik

Crime · Mystery · World Cinema

In 1960s Clerville, master thief Diabolik sets his sights on heiress Eva Kant’s pink diamond in this stylish adaptation of the Italian comic series.

Diva Dolorosa

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Film

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…

Down a Dark Stairwell

Documentary

A Chinese-American police officer kills an unarmed Black man in a dark stairwell of a New York City housing project, igniting a complicated fight for accountability and justice.

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

Documentary · Comedy

Science saved brainiac comedian Emily Levine and Emily uses science – and jokes! – to save the world.

The Empire

Science Fiction · Sci-Fi · Comedy

Featuring wonderfully bizarre performances from French stars like Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, and Anamaria Vartolomei, this slapstick sci-fi spectacle about warring extraterrestrial forces whose fight happens to hinge on a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France is part&n…

Epicentro

Documentary

Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the U.S.S. Maine still resonates, from Academy Award nominee Hubert Sauper (Darwin's Nightmare).

Ever Deadly

Documentary

Ever Deadly weaves together intimate concert footage of Tanya Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections, stunning sequences filmed in Nunavut, and hand-drawn animation by Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona to seamlessly bridge history, landscapes, stories, and songs with pain, anger, and triumph—a…

Every Little Thing

Documentary · Nature

Amid the glamor of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.

Exile

Drama · World Cinema

In the face of micro-aggressions (and worse) from his German work colleagues, a prickly Kosovo-born pharmaceutical engineer becomes increasingly paranoid and plunges into an identity crisis.   

Extra Ordinary

Romance · Horror · Comedy

Rose, a sweet, lonely driving instructor in rural Ireland, is gifted with supernatural abilities. Rose has a love/hate relationship with her 'talents' and tries to ignore the constant spirit related requests from locals – to exorcise possessed rubbish bins or haunted gravel. But! Christian Win…

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Historic Drama · Drama · World Cinema

In this dazzling adaptation of Erich Kästner’s classic of Weimar literature, a young ad-man spends his days working for a cigarette company and his nights wandering the streets of Berlin, where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects…

Falling

Drama

John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.

The Falling Star

Thriller · Mystery · Drama

A former activist who’s been a fugitive for 35 years, and works as a bartender. Boris’ past finally catches up with him when a mysterious stranger appears at the bar, armed and wanting revenge.

Ferdinando & Carolina

Comedy · Historic Drama

NEW DCP COMING SOON! In the dazzling court of 18th century Naples, against their wishes, young King Ferdinando will wed Carolina, the sweet 16 year-old daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. As the monarchies of Europe hold their breath, something unexpected happens. King Ferdinando and Carol…

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…

Filipiñana

Drama

Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the verdant horizon. New to the job, she wanders the immaculate grounds sampling its luxuri…