The team at OR Books are so impressed with OVID's unique and alternative curation that they accepted our request to share their staff picks for your viewing pleasure! Hidden in the cavernous back room of the Francis Kite Club in East Village, OR Books amplifies dissident, progressive voices. Some...

Looking for a Valentine's Day present for your person? How about a gift to OVID?

Or if you have mixed feelings about Valentine’s Day, we feel you! That’s why we have assembled a collection that traverses all the emotional terrain and turmoil, from Andrea Arnold’s animalistic adaptation of WUTHER...

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...

From planet Pluke in the Kin-Dza-Dza galaxy to H.R. Giger’s biomechanical aliens to the feral-femme planet called After Blue, this collection feeds our wild escapist fantasies while reminding us that other possible worlds can be just as brutal and unwieldy as our own. And while some stories take ...

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...

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 (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...

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 ...

Feature films from Latin America

Amid continuing carnage there and increasing silence from most media, streaming services, and television outlets here, OVID remains committed to keeping attentive eyes on Israel, Palestine, and Gaza in particular. The films in this collection boldly face the history and politics of Zionism and Is...

We’re happy to present this year’s selection of films for May Day (a holiday we wish was more widely observed in the United States). Included are documentary and narrative feature films that focus on U.S. issues and global ones, on wider social questions and movements, and also intense and moving...

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...

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." —Robert Capa

The photographers featured in these films have all mastered the art of what makes for a good picture. From a portrait of Robert Frank, who produced the important book, The Americans, to Gerda Taro, whose wartime work wi...

Salvador Allende, the Chilean president who was overthrown by a coup on September 11, 1973, is the focus of both Patricio Guzmán's SALVADOR ALLENDE and Marcia Tambutti Allende's BEYOND MY GRANDFATHER ALLENDE. The death of Allende and the years of military dictatorship that followed have left deep...

Two documentaries detail the life of legendary Italian photographer, Tina Modotti, while she was living and working in Mexico.

Films about the critically acclaimed Argentine film director and screenwriter.

"There is very little agreement on what is camp because camp is in the eye of the beholder... because of the spontaneity and individuality of camp, camp taste is always changing." —Esther Newton, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America

Where do the Queer films go when it's not Pride Month?...