Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Inernational Film Festival, CPH: DOX
"Destined to forever change how its audience watches films." – Indiewire
"An expansive documentary on the dendered nature of film language." – The Hollywood Reporter
“More than just a cinematic feast; it’s a revelation…A nearly lost masterwork.” – The New Yorker
"Revelatory. A Black film unlike any other in its time." – Hyperallergic
4K Restoration by Yale Film Archive, The Film Foundation, and Milestone Films
Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival, AFI Fest
Morocco’s Official Submission for International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards®
“Energetic and hopeful. Communicates the creative excitement of hip-hop [and] infects the audience with its passion.” – Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter
A unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family.
"In centering the writer’s sexuality in her lively and captivating documentary “Loving Highsmith,” filmmaker Eva Vitija does a great service not only to fans of Highsmith’s, but to all of queer history." – Indiewire
Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, FLC's Rendez Vous with French Cinema
"A gorgeously shot memory piece. Vicky Krieps in a tour-de-force performance. Feels like being transported into a trance-like reverie.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“A gorgeous clarion call for our young Black girls, heralding the community, creativity and confidence that is the pride of our culture.” – Ava DuVernay
New 4K restoration by Milestone Films, the Academy Film Archive, and Film Foundation
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Bacurau
The inhabitants of a Brazilian village (among them Sônia Braga) find themselves targeted by a group of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier… who may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful den...
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Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint
Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her.
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Martin Eden
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the...
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
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 establis...
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Based on the international bestseller by rockstar economist Thomas Piketty, this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through recent economic history and how it led to our current state o...
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Lucky Grandma
In New York City, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese Grandma (Tsai Chin) goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck… and in the middle of a Chinatown gang war.
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Beanpole
In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world when a shocking accident brings them closer… and also...
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Extra Ordinary
Rose, a small-town Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.
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Sorry We Missed You
The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s latest, a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called "gig economy."
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Identifying Features
Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Audience and Screenplay Awards at the Sundance Film Festival, this lyrical and suspenseful slow burn follows a woman searching for her son who has gone missing afte...
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Test Pattern
An interracial couple is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit. Their story reveals the systemi...
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M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
The story of world famous Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher (1898-1972). Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait gives us the man through his ...
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The Reason I Jump
Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around t...
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Jazz on a Summer's Day
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of music...
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There Is No Evil
Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, Berlinale Golden Bear winner THERE IS NO EVIL is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to foll...
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Wojnarowicz
This fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz reveals his fiercely political, unapologetically queer approach to art...
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Nationtime
Directed by William Greaves and narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic ev...
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Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary featur...
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The Grey Fox
After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in 20th century society…until he sees The Great Train Robbery and is inspired to...
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Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
One of the great masters of photography, Helmut Newton made a name for himself creating provocative and subversive images of women. Featuring candid interviews with Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling, Is...
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Acasa, My Home
With an empathetic and cinematic eye, filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc offers viewers, in his feature debut, a compelling tale of an impoverished family living on the fringes of society in Romania, fighting ...
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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...
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The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
This moving documentary tells the story of pioneering biologist Anne Innis Dagg, who in 1956 made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
Sold into prostitution by her destitute family, young Lalu (Rosalind Chao) is taken from China and brought to a rough Idaho mining town in 1880. There, she weathers the racism of the local “white de...
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Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
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 o...
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Mephisto
This 1981 Academy Award winner (Best Foreign Language Film) concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of t...
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Confidence
In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion without giving...
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Colonel Redl
Set in the lead up to WWI, Hungarian master István Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury Prizer winner charts the rise of Alfred Redl to head of counter-intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
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Never Gonna Snow Again
A masseur from the East casts a hypnotic spell over the wealthy residents of a Polish gated community in this unclassifiable meditation on class, immigration, and global warming shot through with Lync...
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Tommaso
Willem Dafoe is an American artist living in Rome with his family, played by Abel Ferrara’s real-life wife and daughter. Their tumultuous relationship is set against his day to day life as a teacher...
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Denise Ho - Becoming the Song
Drawing on unprecedented, years-long access, the remarkable journey of the the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. From commercial Cantopop superstar to outspoken politica...
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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work that eventually led him to be rec...
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Victor and Victoria
In this dazzling musical romance, a young woman (Renate Müller), unable to find work as a music hall singer, partners with a down-and-out thespian (Hermann Thimig) to revamp her act.
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Mädchen in Uniform
As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited.
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Michael
Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's homoerotic classic is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time.
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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Filmmaker Beth B accompanies the legendarily boundary-pushing No Wave musician and underground performance artist Lydia Lunch on her latest tour and, through interviews with her collaborators and Lunc...
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Buoyancy
Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Berlinale Panorama and Australia's official submission to the 92nd Academy Awards®, this story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing ...
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Guest of Honour
David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, and Luke Wilson star in this story of a father and daughter attempting to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets from Academy Award nominee Ato...
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Proud
In 1981, it was still illegal to be gay in France. Today, same-sex marriage is recognized and has paved the way for legalizing the adoption of children by LGBTQ families. PROUD tells the story of Char...
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Heartworn Highways
In the mid-‘70s, filmmaker James Szalapski documented the then-nascent country music movement that would become known as “outlaw country.” This newly-restored documentary includes rarely-capture...
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Native Son
Preceded by a special introduction by film historians Eddie Muller and Jacqueline Najima Stewart, Kino Lorber presents a new restoration of the 1951 film version of the explosive novel that exposed th...
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The Changin' Times of Ike White
Serving a life sentence for murder in the early 1970s, music prodigy Ike White had plenty of time to perfect his musical talent, but no hope of putting it to use in the outside world. Ike's skills wer...
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Born to Be
With extraordinary access, this documentary offers an intimate look at the pioneering work of Dr. Jess Ting (he/him) at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery to br...
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F.T.A. (new restoration)
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. Despite being highly controversial, it was a huge success among statio...
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Epicentro
Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, "utopian" Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the U.S.S. Maine still resonates.
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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.
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Museum Town
Narrated by Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep, this documentary tells the story of an unconventional museum, the small town of North Adams, MA it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of...
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NASRIN
An immersive portrait of the world’s most honored human rights activist and political prisoner, attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran’s remarkably resilient women’s rights movement.
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The Keeper
An extraordinary love story between a young English woman and a German prisoner of war, who together overcome prejudice, outrage and personal tragedy.
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New French Shorts 2020
This selection of seven of the best recent short films from France, all of them award winners, is made available through Young French Cinema, a program of UniFrance and the Cultural Services of the Fr...
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The Tobacconist
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship.
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House of Hummingbird
14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming...
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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.
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Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Science saved brainiac comedian Emily Levine and Emily uses science – and jokes! – to save the world.
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RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words
The improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job despite graduating first in her law school class in a tie and making Law Review at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, became an...
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Falling
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, thei...
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Her Name Is Chef
The stories of six amazingly talented, inspiring, females of the kitchen. Each share their triumphs in cutting through the clichés of the restaurant industry, and explore how they broke down the door...
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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...
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You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski
A night of drinking and talking about sex, literature, childhood and humanity with the irreverent writer poet Charles Bukowski in his California house in 1981. A story of tapes lost, found and brought...
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Major Arcana
Set in the backwoods of Vermont, MAJOR ARCANA follows an itinerant carpenter's struggle to end a legacy of alcoholism and poverty as he attempts to build a log cabin by hand. His plans are complicat...
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I Am Woman
This uplifting biopic tells the story of Helen Reddy, the fiercely ambitious Australian singer behind the 1971 megahit anthem that became the rallying cry of the women’s liberation movement.
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Michael Smerconish: Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking
Michael Smerconish celebrates his 30th year as a talk radio host in this dynamic one-man performance, recorded live in the midst of a pandemic. The result is both an intimate memoir and a unique expla...
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Slalom
This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy, Noée Abita in a breakthrough role, and her predatory instruct...
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My Wonderful Wanda
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 a Polish caretaker who has left her own small ...
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New French Shorts 2021
Back by popular demand! This annual showcase of some of the most exciting new cinematic voices from France includes the Oscar-nominated animated short Genius Loci and César Award winners And Then the...
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Sheep Without a Shepherd
Working family man and self-described movie-geek Li is thrown into a battle of wits with the law after his daughter accidentally kills, and his wife hurriedly buries, a fellow student who had sexually...
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Down a Dark Stairwell
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.
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On Broadway
For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! It takes us behind the scenes of Broadway’s most groundbreaking shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton, and is pa...
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In Balanchine's Classroom
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 ...
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Wife of a Spy
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller, which follows a Japanese woman during WWII wh...
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The Village Detective: a song cycle
Four reels of water-damaged 35mm film recovered by an Icelandic fishing boat serve as inspiration for Bill Morrison’s latest meditation on cinema’s past—this time centered on popular Russian act...
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Luzzu
Hardworking new father Jesmark, played by a real-life Maltese fisherman, must choose between the traditional way of life practiced by his family for generations and an illicit black-market fishing ope...
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Hive
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 o...
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France
Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected new film, which starts out as a satire of contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darke...
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