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Jafar Panahi • Iran-USA • 2018 • An Iranian road film, foregrounding female perspectives.

Behnaz has received an alarming video. Marziyeh, a young woman, personally appeals to Behnaz for help, then appears to commit suicide onscreen. Visibly shaken, Benhaz walks off the set of h...

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Jia Zhangke • China • 2013 • Four ordinary citizens are driven to the brink of violence

A local boss runs a small village in China’s northern Shanxi province. He’s gotten rich selling collective property, and while most of the villagers look the other way, Dahai, a solitary coal...

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Kleber Mendonça Filho • 2016 • Brazil • Clara refuses to leave her home to make way for a high-rise.

Clara lives in a low-rise apartment building close to the beach in Recife, a small city in northeast Brazil. Her well-established life is threatened by the arrival of ruthless prop...

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Joanna Hogg • United Kingdom • 2010 • A subtle critique of the manners of the British upper class.

A family gathers on the remote island of Tresco, off the southwestern coast of England. Amid this rugged landscape the matriarch, Patricia, takes lessons from a local painter, while...

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Christian Petzold • 2012 • Germany

Steeped in the life in former GDR, a woman is torn between two worlds.

Barbara Wolff arrives in a small town in East Germany, having been transferred from Berlin's prestigious Charité hospital following an unspecified transgression. Consigned to...

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Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey • 2006 • A crowning achievement by a contemporary master.

Isa and Bahar have been together for a while. Holidaying by the seaside, the weight of their history is felt in their silences, in stolen glances. Isa has been secretly seeing another woman, and B...

Bill Morrison • 2016 • USA

The intersection of cinema with the peak of the Canadian Gold Rush.

Bill Morrison's documentary transports us to a landscape where early cinema intersected with the peak of the Canadian Gold Rush.

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Yorgos Lanthimos • Greece • 2005 • An astonishing portrait of one of cinema's strangest families.

A handsome estate in the Greek countryside.  A wealthy businessman lives here with his wife and three grown children, all in their twenties.  They are ostensibly an ordinary family, e...

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Andrey Zvyagintsev • 2011 • Russia • A woman fights for what's hers after her husband's death

Delving into the psyche of a morally ambiguous female protagonist, and featuring a haunting score by Philip Glass, Elena is a bold and stylish study of crime and punishment in contemporar...

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Gianfranco Rosi • 2016 • Italy

A small fishing town emerges as the nexus of the refugee crisis.

Halfway between Sicily and the coast of Tunisia lies a tiny island with a dwindling full-time population of several thousand. As the island denizens go about their business, distress...

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Jean-Luc Godard • 2014 • France-Switzerland

A beguiling video-essay on the experience of being-in-the-world—refracted through the eyes of several young lovers, and a dog.

A small town on the shores of Lake Geneva. A ferry comes and goes; a young couple sets up a bookstand. A pr...

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Ursula Meier • 2008 • Switzerland • Marthe and her family's off-the-grid life is disrupted.

The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway has been re-opened, and the family finds their home situated in th...

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Hong Sang-soo • South Korea • 2012 • A breezy, humorous tale of love, lust, and misunderstanding.

A sleepy seaside village in South Korea. Following an argument with her mother, aspiring screenwriter Wonju concocts three scenarios revolving around a Frenchwoman named Anne. In th...

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Bruno Dumont • 2014 • France

Bruno Dumont's four-part miniseries plies the conventions of the serial murder-mystery to satirize social and political realities in present-day France.

A bovine carcass is discovered inside a WWII bunker nestled along the windswept coast of Northern ...

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Jia Zhangke • 2016 • China • A sweeping portrait of love across generations.

Tao, a young shopkeeper in Fenyang, marries Jingsheng, hoping to escape her provincial existence. Fifteen years later, Jingsheng has remarried and moved to Shanghai, taking their 7-year-old son, Daole, wi...

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Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert • Poland • 2020

Zhenia arrives from the East with barely a suitcase, a folding massage bed draped over his shoulder. Navigating a series of highway underpasses to the Polish immigration office, he declares his intention to stay. Zhenia may o...

Andrea Arnold • UK • 2006 • Jackie notices a man from her past monitoring CCTV cameras.

Jackie lives alone, monitoring CCTV cameras in a high-rise housing complex in Glasgow's northern periphery. She engages from time to time in an affair with a married man, but her life is otherwise uneventful....

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Aleksandr Sokurov • 2002 • Russia • A floating, single-take journey through Russian history.

Filmed in one 96-minute, continuous single-take shot—the first work of cinema to ever do so—Russian Ark foregrounds the sustained unfolding of cinematic time and space as a process of cont...

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Gianfranco Rosi • 2013 • Italy

A cartography of Rome's ring road and its eccentric inhabitants.

The Grande Raccordo Anulare is a 68-kilometer highway girdling the metropolis of Rome. Rarely given a passing glimpse by the majority of the city's inhabitants, Rome's ring road is a...

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Carlos Reygadas • 2007 • Mexico • Filmed with nonprofessional actors among a community of Mennonites.

Johan lives with Esther, his wife, and their seven children in rural Chihuahua state, among a community of Mennonites. For the past two years Johan has engaged in a passionate af...

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Ursula Meier • 2012 • Switzerland • A ski resort drama with a powerful performance by Léa Seydoux.

At the very edge of adolescence, Simon lives with his sister Louise in a Swiss valley beneath a large mountain range. Each day he makes the commute to a luxury ski resort at altitud...

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Bruno Dumont • 2017 • France

Juliette Binoche stars in a modern Belle Époque-era period critique.

The bourgeois Van Peteghem family are no strangers to the bliss of upper-class existence. Perched atop the cliffs of Normandy, the eccentric clan of relatives have congregated in t...

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Ken Loach • United Kingdom • 2019 • A wrenching, intimate family drama from the legendary Ken Loach.

Ricky has been a blue-collar worker his whole life. His wife, Abby, is a domestic worker, caring for the aging and infirm. They always managed to make ends meet, until they lost th...

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Naomi Kawase • 2015 • Japan • A heart-warming tale of food and friendship in contemporary Japan.

Sentaro runs a small bakery on the corner of a tree-lined street. Tokue is a seventy-six year old woman skilled in the art of preparing an, a traditional red bean paste in dorayaki. ...