OVID's Collections

OVID's Collections

We try and make some sense for you of OVID's bountiful selection of films. And we keep thinking of new themes or subjects or combinations that go together, so check back!

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OVID's Collections
  • Students Say "No!" Around the World

    15 items

    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 ...

  • Dance Camera West

    39 items

    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 Future of Film is Female Pride Trifecta

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    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...

  • Jazz on Film (collection)

    12 items

    A selection of films that incorporate jazz into their story. Ranging from Shirley Clarke's The Connection, a play within a play within a jazz concert, to portraits of jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman and Marcus Miller, these films celebrate and appreciate the music art form.

  • Women's History Month 2025

    73 items

    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.

  • Sold My Soul to Rock & Roll

    26 items

    With a focus on indie and punk rock, this collection of documentary and feature films illustrates the beauty – and sometimes danger – of losing oneself too deeply in the music, or art, and brings us up-close to some of the obsessive personalities who create it.

  • International Holocaust Remembrance Day

    31 items

    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...

  • Animation (Features)

    25 items

    Alongside our Animated Shorts, this collection of animated feature films introduces a selection of international filmmakers working across diverse animation styles, from the minimalist watercolor compositions of Jean-Francois Laguionie’s Louise by the Shore to the intricate stop motion animation ...

  • Martin Luther King Day

    9 items

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

  • Defying Gravity

    11 items

    Whether on top of a mountain, deep in Antarctica or just a New York City street, these are documentaries that take the viewer to the edge of the world. Not for the faint of heart, they all show what human beings are able to accomplish and what difficulties can be overcome in life.

  • Arab American Heritage Month

    5 items

    We invited the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI), a nonprofit organization founded by the team behind the largest and oldest Arab Film Festival in North America, to curate a collection of new and existing films with a focus on the lives, joys, daily struggles, and resilience of Arab women in d...

  • Spectacle Theater's Top Films

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    In partnership with Spectacle Theater, we present a new playlist curated by Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer celebrating our collaborations with the Brooklyn microcinema. The selections include Japanese maverick Shohei Imamura’s portrait of remote island communities THE PIRATES OF BUBUAN, the Afrofuturist ...

  • 'Tis the Season

    6 items

    Explore this holiday collection of unconventional Christmas films.

  • African Film Festival 2023

    12 items

    The African Film Festival (AFF) has curated this collection of films that showcases the creativity, community, courage, good humor and resilience that Africans display in the face of great adversity.

    The festival is dedicated to advancing an enhanced understanding of African culture through film...

  • Black Lives

    59 items

  • LGBTQ Narrative Films

    22 items

    Ranging from the French classic OLIVIA and early trailblazers like PARTING GLANCES to recent indie hits, this collection features LGBTQ fiction films that stand the test of time.

  • Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy

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    In the last decade of his long and prolific career, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) —best-known in the U.S. as the filmmaker behind the cult hit House (1977)—wrote and directed a trio of deeply personal and formally audacious films that confronted Japan’s wartime past.

    Made in the wake of the Grea...

  • Free Cinema (eleven films)

    11 items

    Free Cinema not only reinvented British documentary making, but this highly influential period in the country’s cinema history was the precursor for the better known British New Wave of social realist films in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

    The term Free Cinema was coined by critic and filmmake...

  • Spooky Season

    28 items

    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...

  • Marguerite Duras

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    Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) - best-known as the author of The Lover and for the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour (the classic 1960 New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais) - was one of the most prolific, controversial, and renowned cultural figures in post-war France. Between 1943 (when she p...

  • History of the Queer Liberation Movement

    11 items

    OVID stands in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community. This collection features films exploring the early fight for LGBTQ+ rights in America, from Stonewall to the AIDS crisis, and the brave people who fought for queer liberation.

  • Gender as Performance

    7 items

    A series of films that show the range and fluidity of gender in life. From drag queens and kings, to performance artists and dancers, these stories show that gender can take many forms.

  • Inspired by Comics

    15 items

  • Downtown Community Television (DCTV)

    6 items

    The Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) was founded in 1972 with the goal of using filmmaking as a tool to catalyze, inform, and empower communities. From humble beginnings (DCTV's first educational projects operated from the back of a dilapidated mail truck), fifty years later DCTV has g...