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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

What would the end of summer be without Labor Day? So here we are again, happy for the long weekend, and for the reminder to turn our attention at least once a year to, well, the working class. Which if the U.S. is still not ready to celebrate May Day (by the way marking a specifically American h...

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...

A collection of films featuring man's best friend.

Five films from the archives of the British royal family.

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...

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.

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.

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...

With one exception all the films in this section feature great actresses PLAYING actresses. They explore the fraught realities of performance, where ambition, desire and artistry collide.

Featuring a remarkable performance from Tyne Daly, A Bread Factory centers on a local theater company caugh...

Jezebel Productions was founded by Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller in 1985, when only a handful of women were directing documentary features.

Jezebel grew out of their collaboration on the groundbreaking documentary, Before Stonewall (1984), which was directed by Schiller. The film premiered at ...

From charismatic portraits of iconic designers to exposés on the darker realities of the industry, these documentaries take unconventional approaches to the many-sided world of high fashion. Punk rock and high fashion collide in Westwood, a portrait of trend-setting designer and activist Vivienne...

These films deal with beauty, whether its young women trying to become models, turning to plastic surgery to achieve a desired look or how to make food look as desirable as possible.

FRIENDS SINCE THE AGE OF NINE, Sucher and Fischler grew up in a rough-and-tumble Brooklyn neighborhood and early on they took the rebellious road: declaring themselves “anarchists” while still enrolled in Brooklyn Technical High School. In 1970, two of their NYU student films, I AM CURIOUS HAROLD...

Animal Kingdom is a collection of films about animals and people's often complicated relationships with them. Ranging from beloved service dogs (BUDDY and TO BE OF SERVICE) to the lives of farm animals (BESTIAIRE and OUR DAILY BREAD), these films show many facets of how people and animals interac...