Before they eat you.

From Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI, to the modern day SCHOOL OF BABEL, these films will transport the viewer to Paris, France.

A selection of films of travel and adventure, discovery and cultural encounters, here and there, past and present!

Newly updated for 2025! OVID celebrates Women’s History Month with a diverse collection of films about women. This cross-section of films includes a documentary on Chilean activists fighting for a better country, visual artists including Frida Kahlo and women campaigning for safe access to abortion.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the victims of the Holocaust on January 27, the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945. Highlights include Thomas Heise’s understated epic Heimat is a Space in Time, spanning three generations of his fa...

A collection of films in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happy New Year from OVID! Here's a roundup of our top fifty most-watched films and programs in 2023. The list is based upon the total number of views for each film, and it is ranked from # 1 to # 50. Look out for surprises, and some great films you may have missed!

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Happy New Year from OVID! Here's a roundup of our top fifty most-watched films and programs in 2022. The list is based upon the total number of minutes watched for each film, and it is ranked from # 1 to # 50. Look out for surprises, and some great films you may have missed!

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Explore this holiday collection of unconventional Christmas films.

OVID's eclectic Halloween collection has something for everyone, whether werewolves (Good Manners), serial killers (Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart), high school bullies and sinister doppelgangers (Alena), demons (Demons), cannibal sorcery (Dachra), or supernatural ghost stories (Bedevil) are yo...

Explore Vietnam with this collection of films. You’ll find Nguyễn Thị Thấm’s verite documentary “Madam Phung's Last Journey” about a former monk who becomes a guiding hand to a largely transgender troupe and “Which Way is East,” Lynne Sachs’ travel diary turned political discourse on Vietnam.

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Three very different documentaries feature British art critic and poet, John Berger (1926-2017). Working on an astonishing range of topics and art-forms, his groundbreaking insights on seeing shaped the public for decades.

Realized as a portrait in works and collaborations, JOHN BERGER OR THE AR...

"Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”—Audre Lorde

Poetry can be a groundswell for bold ideas. This curated collection will expose you to work ranging from Marlon Rigg’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret),” which illuminates the difficult journey of livin...

Ghosts and spirits haunt the films in this special collection for Halloween.

A bittersweet collection of documentaries and a few fiction films on a wide range of childhoods and childhood experiences around the world, from the adventures and idylls of growing up, to coping with personal challenges, and facing terrible tragedies.

Stories of growing up, going to school and learning about life.

As Juliana Hatfield sang in the 1993 pop song, "My Sister", people can both love and hate their sister. These films explore both sides of the emotional currents that run between sisters, from a documentary on the musicians Kate and Anna McGarrigle, to an exploration of the effects of the one chil...

Films on (paid) domestic labor, and the fraught relationships that follow.

A selection of films from or about Balkan countries.

OVID is proud to present two films about the writer and activist Howard Zinn, who passed away in 2010. HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN (2011) is an acclaimed film that looks at his amazing life. Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World War...

There is a long tradition of student activism to end wars and social inequities. From Hong Kong to South Africa and across the United States, this collection of films explore student-led protests and capture the sense of chaos, risk, and helplessness in the face of authorities that try to stifle ...

OVID is proud to present yearly selections from Dance Camera West. DCW is an internationally renowned Los Angeles-based film festival committed to exploring dance in the context of cinema.

“Where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of film to create a new kind of magic!” —The New York ...

The first Pride was a riot. Heading towards the fifty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riot gives us the opportunity to reflect on how far queer rights have come, and what’s left to achieve. It’s all intersectional with gender equity, a quiet revolution we fight at The Future of Film is Fem...