A Matter of Size
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
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…
Acasa, My Home
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
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…
Action U.S.A.
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.
Afghan Star
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
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
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.
Ajami
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
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.
American Delivery
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.
Amrum
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 …
Applause
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
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…
Atonement
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…
Ayurveda: The Art of Being
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
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
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…
Banel & Adama
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
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.
Beaufort
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.
Being Maria
Maria Schneider's rise to fame after "Last Tango in Paris" and its controversial production's impact on her life and career.
Below Sea Level
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-…
Berlin Alexanderplatz
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.
The Big Animal
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
Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking, from one of its undisputed masters.
Black Zombie
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…
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.
Bloom Up
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.
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
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.
Brighton 4th
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.
The Business of Fancydancing
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…
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
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
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…
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
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.
Casablanca Beats
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.
Chi-hwa-seon
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…
Chile '76
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.
Chop Suey
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
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…
Cinema Sabaya
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…
The Clay Bird
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
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
Close to Vermeer
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
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 Corporation
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.
Costa Brava, Lebanon
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
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.
Cowards Bend the Knee
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Crossing the Line
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.
The Currents
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 …
Cut-Up: The Films of Grant Munro
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.
Daytime Revolution
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
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
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
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
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.
Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn
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.…