DIRECTED BY EMILY TAGUCHI, JAKE LEFFERMAN | DOCUMENTARY | 2019 | U.S. | ENGLISH | RATING 13+

After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that killed 17 people and launched a nationwide student movement, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman embedded with students and...

Directed by Nadav Lapid | Drama - Arthouse | 2022 | Israel | Hebrew w/ English subtitles | Rating 16+

This Cannes Jury Prize winning film follows an Israeli filmmaker in his mid-40s who arrives in a remote village in the desert to present one of his films. There he meets an officer for the Minis...

Directed by Oskar Pali Sveinsson | Documentary - LGBTQ | 2021 | Iceland | Icelandic | Rating 13+
Stars Veiga Gretarsdottir

Veiga Gretarsdottir 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 ...

DIRECTED BY NANCY BUIRSKI • DOCUMENTARY • 2019 • U.S. • ENGLISH • RATING 7+

A mesmerizing portrait of legendary ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq, muse to both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, whose career was cut short by polio at the age of 27. This is a story of how one woman passionately inf...

Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc | Documentary | 2020 | Romania, Germany | Romanian | Rating 13+

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary follows a family with their roots in the wilderness who struggle to conform to ...

Directed by Peter Greenaway • 1990 • United Kingdom
Starring Andrea Ferréol, Brian Deacon

A masterpiece of modern cinema, “A Zed and Two Noughts” is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of...

Directed by Férid Boughedir • 1998 • Tunisia, France
Starring Sonia Mankaï, Ava Cohen-Jonathan

Beautifully shot on the sun-dappled seaside of Tunisia, Férid Boughedir's summer comedy beautifully captures the waning innocence of three teenage girlfriends living in an apartment complex near the wa...

Directed by Édouard Molinaro • 1975 • France
Starring Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier

A hired killer has come to Montpellier to fulfill a “contract” that a powerful crime organization has placed on a man about to testify against the mob at an upcoming trial. From director Édouard Mo...

Directed by Tony Richardson • 1976 • United States
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield

An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Oscar-winners Katharine...

Directed by Philip Haas • 1988 • United States
Starring David Hockney

Painted by Wang Hui and his assistants, the seventh scroll of "The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour" contains over 72 feet of beautiful and minutely detailed artistry. Director Philip Haas and famed artist David Hockn...

Milton Moses Ginsberg • 1969 • USA • Rip Torn gives one of his greatest screen performances as a psychiatrist secretly filming his own mental breakdown in Milton Moses Ginsberg's classic exploration of dark eroticism and self-referential cinematic form. Anticipating the camcorder-driven, diary fi...

Lionel Rogosin • South Africa-U.S. • 1959 • Among the bravest and best of all political films

Having served as a soldier in WWII, Lionel Rogosin became committed to countering the effects of fascism wherever they sprouted. To that end he spent a year in Sophiatown, a South African ghetto where ...

Stéphane Tchalgadjieff & Jean Jacques Flori • France • 1982 • An essential look at African music

Fela Kuti is to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: a prophet. All contemporary forms of black music, from funk to electronic, owe something to the irresistible groove of the Afrobeat sound ...

Mohammad Rasoulof • Iran-Germany-Czech Republic • 2020 • An incisive look at contemporary Iran

Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, There is No Evil is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice — to follow orders to enforce the death p...

Gem Deger • Czech Republic • 2020 • An intoxicating blend of fantasy, violence, passion and control

Demir wakes up one day in an unfamiliar apartment with no memory.  He scurries out only to be stopped by Andrew, who assures Demir that they're roommates.  Settling into this new reality, Demir qu...

Djibril Diop Mambéty • Senegal • 1992 • A 2K restoration of Mambéty's landmark in Senegalese cinema

Once poor, Linguère is now fabulously wealthy. She returns to her impoverished hometown to propose a deal to the local populace—her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier ...

Andrzej Zulawski • France • 2015 • A remarkable finale from the director of Possession

Witwold, who has just failed the bar, and Fuchs, who has quit his job in fashion, are friends. They are both staying at a guesthouse run by Madame Woytis, mother to the incandescent Lena, who has recently been...

Blerta Basholli • Kosovo-Switzerland-Albania-North Macedonia • 2021 • Kosovo's 2021 Oscar Submission

Fahrije exists in a liminal space, in between fading hope and blooming grief ever since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls...

Alex Camilleri • Malta & USA • 2021 • A remarkable neorealist drama.

Jesmark comes from a long line of Maltese fishermen. Like his father and grandfather before him, he ekes out a meager existence on his luzzu, a traditional fishing boat, that has now begun to take on water. As the breadwinner f...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Japan • 2003 • A high-concept thriller from the master filmmaker

Michio Hayasaki is stressed. His job at a medical instrument manufacturing company unfolds like a never ending series of setbacks, exacerbated by the relentless demands of his employer. Returning home from work o...

Shinya Tsukamoto • Japan • 2002 • An evocative tale of desire in steely monochrome

On the surface, Rinko has a nice life. She has good looks, a decent job, and a successful older husband. These facts belie a sorrowfulness, however, rooted in a lack of intimacy between Rinko and Shigehiko, who wo...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Japan • 2020 • A masterful wartime romance co-written by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Kobe, 1940. The outbreak of World War II looms on the horizon, and local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku has a bad feeling. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to expose events he...

Maya Deren • United States • 1945 • An early dance piece from Deren

Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time, as well as a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlik...

Maya Deren • United States • 1946 • A pure expression of dance

Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time, as well as a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and...

Maya Deren • United States • 1946 • An intimate lens on feline life

Co-directed with frequent collaborator Alexander Hammid, The Private Life of a Cat cast an intimate lens on feline life, prefiguring the contemporary craze for cat videos.

Maya Deren • United States • 1944 • Deren's surrealist encounter with a multiplicity of selves

Considered the mother of avant-garde filmmaking, Maya Deren’s At Land provides a psychogeographical journey where Deren washes up on a beach and encounters a multiplicity of selves.

Maya Deren • United States • 1949 • A dazzling vision of dance

Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time, as well as a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and...

Maya Deren • United States • 1958 • A dazzling vision of dance

Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time, as well as a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and...

Maya Deren • United States • 1985 • A remarkable hour-long montage of Haitian Voodoo ceremonies

Considered the mother of avant-garde filmmaking, Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen is a remarkable hour-long montage of Haitian Voodoo ceremonies.

Maya Deren & Alexander Hamid • USA • 1943

A flower on a sunny sidewalk. A woman in black enters an empty house, the record-player spinning, the telephone off the hook. Out the window, a shrouded figure strides out of view as the woman chases after her. Witness to herself, the woman embarks on an...

Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman • USA • 1926

Rejected by the Confederate army and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon...

Sergei Eisenstein • USSR • 1925

Odessa, 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions onboard, the crew of Potemkin considers the unthinkable: mutiny. Seizing control of the ship and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt reaches further, rallying a disenchanted Russian populace....

One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera is a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people at work, at play, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive.

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Jess Franco • France • 1972 • A melding of Franco's fondness for classic horror with sex and violence.

After the death of Victor Frankenstein, two figures vie for control of his metallic-skinned monster and the radical technology that created him: the scientist's daughter, Vera, and the immortal...

After providing a most uncommon selection of titles on Filmatique, the legendary actor (and director of HOLD ME TIGHT) discusses his life in film: cinephilia, blindspots, and the gap (or unity) between creating and loving art.

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Andrei Tarkovsky • Sweden • 1986 • Tarkovsky's haunting final masterpiece.

NEW 4K RESTORATION! Famed Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's final masterpiece, The Sacrifice is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation that inspired Andrew Sarris (The Village ...

István Szabó • Hungary • 1981 • The Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film.

Germany, the early 1930s. The Reich exerts increasing power, and Hendrik Höfgen faces a choice: to leave, or to stay? The passionate but struggling stage actor abandons his political views, reaping the rewar...

Svetla Tsotsorkova • Bulgaria-Qatar • 2012

Explores the doldrums of small-town existence as a young ceramist prone to falsehoods stumbles upon a stunning revelation from her mother's past.

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....

Chloé Zhao • 2015 • USA • A portrait of two siblings living in a South Dakota Indian Reservation.

Teenage Johnny spends his days breaking horses and hustling contraband liquor out of the family's laundry room, yet dreams of moving with his girlfriend to Los Angeles, where he believes a brighter...

Aleksei Fedorchenko • 2010 • Russia • A man journeys through central Russia to lay his wife to rest.

An evocative exploration of the mysteries of love, existence, and death, Silent Souls charts an unexpected journey into the Russian hinterlands and its nearly-forgotten people.

Following the sud...

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 contact and withdra...

Byambasuren Davaa • Mongolia-Germany • 2005

Nansal is the eldest daughter of a nomadic family. One the way home from school one day, she happens upon a black and white puppy, naming him Zochor (Spot). Her father immediately refuses to allow the dog to stay, however, fearing that its presence wil...

Marco Tullio Giordana • Italy • 2012

A bomb shook Milan on December 12, 1969. Exploding at the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, fourteen were killed with nearly 100 injured, striking fear into the heart of the otherwise stately Italian city. Police Commissioner Luigi Calabres...

Caetano Gotardo • 2012 • Brazil • A lyrical omnibus portrait of maternal love and longing in Brazil.

It's the last day of Pedro's high school break. When a group of surprise visitors arrive the next morning, Maria Júlia's learns something about her son perhaps a moment too late. Eduardo is a sou...

Patricio Guzmán • Chile • 2014

Navigating Chile's colonial and political histories vis-à-vis its expansive waterways, The Pearl Button charts the labyrinths of individual and collective memory.

Sergey Dvortsevoy • 2008 • Kazakhstan

Tulpan captures the rhythms of nomadic existence in a surreal and barren landscape, revealing a starkly beautiful, if not vanishing way of life

Upon completion of his Russian naval service, Asa returns to the windswept Kazakhstani steppe where he dreams of ...

Annemarie Jacir • 2012 • Palestine-Jordan

Annemarie Jacir’s second film observes the effects of the Six Day War on a young boy who has been displaced to a Jordanian refugee camp.

Jessica Hausner • 2009 • Austria • Lourdes unsettles epistemologies about the occurrence of miracles

Charting a course of ambiguity between faith and doubt, Lourdes unsettles epistemologies regarding the occurrence of miracles.

Christine is afflicted by multiple sclerosis and thus confined to a...

Gabriel Mascaro • 2015 • Brazil-Uruguay-Netherlands • A dreamlike journey into Brazil's vaquejada culture

Evoking northeast Brazil’s rural traditions alongside dreams of its burgeoning fashion industry, and attuned to the commodification of bodies across species, Neon Bull deconstructs conventio...

Lisandro Alonso • 2008 • Argentina

Follows a merchant sailor en route to his hometown.

Farrel has been at sea for years. Steeped in the quotidian routines of life on a merchant ship, one day Farrel requests to disembark. His goal is to visit his ailing mother in Ushuaia. Equipped solely with a ...

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 France. The dro...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey • 2014

Cappadocia, present day. Aydin, a retired actor, runs a small hotel, where he lives with beautiful young wife Nihal and his recently divorced sister. Growingly restless in this provincial region, Nihal busies herself with small philanthropic projects; Aydin, m...

Stéphane Brizé • 2016 • France

A noblewoman is enthralled and exploited by her male companions.

Stéphane Brizé's luminous film depicts the travails of a noble woman enthralled and exploited by her male companions in nineteenth-century France.

Raised amid the sun-dappled countryside of Normand...

Eliza Hittman • 2013 • USA

Lila decides to lose her virginity during a summer in South Brooklyn.

A gauzy summer in South Brooklyn. Lila, an awkward adolescent girl, passes her time breaking into beach homes and tagging along on dates between her pretty friend Chiara and Chiara's new boyfriend...

Nabil Ayouch • 2012 • Morocco

Based on the 2003 Casablanca bombings, Nabil Ayouch's fourth film was selected as Morocco's official submission to the 86th Academy Awards.

Yachine and his older brother Hamid reside in Sidi Moumen, a slum assembled along the periphery of Casablanca. Hamid soon fal...

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 the midst of rush...

Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra • 2011 •Brazil

Helena has found the perfect spot for her new store.

Blending neorealist class critique with elements of subdued horror, Hard Labor dissects both the material and supernatural implications of a middle-class couple slowly succumbing to precarity in a ...

Jean-Luc Godard • 2014 • France

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 professor sits on a nearby be...

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 contemporary Russia

Elena...