September 2022
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Launched in March, 2019, September marks a new milestone for OVID. We are releasing 48 films, the most in any month since we started and our complete library, now surpassing 1600 titles, continues to grow every month. And we’ve never raised the subscription fee!
The films this month range from a recent feature film by Costa Gavras, to an early film by the “godfather of mumblecore” Andrew Bujakski, and the ground-breaking documentary about trans lives THE SALT MINES.
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Here is the complete list of all the films coming to OVID this month (in alphabetical order). For a more detailed schedule see our blog metafilm. And as each title is available we will include a link to it here, below.
A Tale of Love and Desire, Leila Bouzid (2021)
Bovines, Emmanuel Gras (2011)
Boy I Am, Sam Feder and Julie Hollar (2006)
Clotheslines, Roberta Cantow (1981)
Corporate, Nicolas Silhol (2017)
The Dazzling Light of Sunset, Salome Jashi (2016)
Eden is West, Costa-Gavras (2009)
First Passion, Philippe Baron (2010)
Flic Story, Jacques Deray (1975)
Funny Ha Ha, Andrew Bujalski (2003)
Girls Rock!, Arne Johnson and Shane King (2007)
Golda Maria, Patrick Sobelman & Hugo Sobelman (2020)
Green, Sophia Takal (2011)
The Greenway Alphabet, Saskia Boddeke (2017)
Hero, Alexandre Rockwell (1983)
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, Norberto López Amado and Carlos Carcas (2010)
Howard Zinn, You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train, Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller (2010)
I Am (Not) a Monster, Nelly Ben Hayoun (2019)
If This Ain’t Heaven, Roberta Cantow (1984)
In the Soup, Alexandre Rockwell (1992)
Karamay, Xu Xin (2012)
Kate Bornstein is Queer and Present Danger, Sam Feder (2014)
Little Feet, Alexandre Rockwell (2017)
Living the Light: Robby Muller, Claire Pijman (2018)
Ma, Celia Rowlson-Hall (2015)
Mariam, Sharipa Urazbayeva (2019)
Nelson Algren: The End of Nothing, the Road is All, Ilko Davidov and Denis Mueller (2015)
Neon Heart, Laurits Flensted-Jensen (2018)
The Night Clerk, Raphaël Jacoulot (2011)
The Oyler House, Michael Dorsey (2012)
Please Hold the Line, Pavel Cuzuioc (2020)
Pollock & Pollock, Isabelle Rebre (2016)
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times, John Junkerman (2002)
The Salt Mines, Carlos Aparicio and Susana Aikin (1990)
Searching Eva, Pia Hellenthal (2019)
Searching for Ingmar Bergman, Margarethe von Trotta (2018)
The Seer and the Unseen, Sara Dosa (2019)
Sex and Broadcasting, Tim Smith (2014)
Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley (2008)
Tokyo Shaking, Olivier Peyon (2021
The Transformation, Carlos Aparicio and Susana Aikin (1995)
The Two Friends, Louis Garrel (2015)
Unfinished Spaces, Benjamin Murray and Alysa Nahmias (2011)
We Intend to Cause Havoc, Gio Arlotta (2019)
Werewolf, Ashley McKenzie (2018)
Whatever Lola Wants, Nabil Ayouch (2007)
When Memory Comes, Frank Diamand (2013)
Wild, Nicolette Krebitz (2018)
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Wild
Directed by Nicolette Krebitz • Drama • With Lilith Stangenberg • 2016 • 97 minutes
Nicolette Krebitz’s long awaited third feature WILD, shocked and awed audiences at the 2016 Sundance festival. A seductive, dark trip into the soul of civilized humanity, WILD is a strange, dream-like journey of ...
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First Passion
Directed by Philippe Baron • Documentary • 2010 • 52 minutes
The first cinematic depiction of the life of Jesus, Sidney Olcott's 1912 film FROM THE MANGER TO THE CROSS is the only movie ever shot in the places described by the New Testament. The fourth feature-length film release in the history ...
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Ma
Directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall • Drama • With Kentucker Audley, Matt Lauria, Andrew Pastides, Michelle Perks, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Peter Vack • 2015 • 80 minutes
In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage, a woman crosses the scorched landscape of the American Southwest. Reinvented an...
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Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, The Road is All
Directed by Mark Blottner, Ilko Davidov & Denis Mueller • Documentary • 2015 • 85 minutes
This in-depth portrait of notorious American author Nelson Algren uses interviews, rare archival footage, and the gritty voice of Algren himself to capture the elusive and unique literary figure whose fame ...
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Pollock & Pollock
Directed by Isabelle Rèbre • Documentary • With Sylvia Winter Pollock, Francesca McCoy Pollock, James McCoy, Helen Harrison, Peter Namuth, Terence Maloon, Dominic Gould, Rebecca Pauly, • 2020 • 82 minutes
The film tells the story of two brothers, two American painters: Jackson Pollock and Charle...
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A Cow's Life
Directed by Emmanuel Gras • Documentary • 2011 • 62 minutes
In the fields, we see them, extended on the grass or grazing peacefully. Large placid beasts that we thought we knew because they are livestock. Lions, gorillas, bears have our attention, but has anyone ever really looked at the cows? H...
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The Seer and the Unseen
Directed by Sara Dosa • Documentary • With Ragnhildur Jonsdottir • 2019 • 89 minutes
THE SEER & THE UNSEEN is a magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic grandmother who speaks on behalf of nature unde...
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Golda Maria
Directed by Patrick Sobelman, Hugo Sobelman • Documentary • 2022 • 116 minutes
Before us sits an 84-year-old grandmother, positioned in her Parisian lounge opposite the amateur camera of her grandson Patrick Sobelman. It’s October 29, 1994 and over the course of three days, this woman will tell ...
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When Memory Comes: A Film About Saul Friedlander
Directed by Frank Diamand • Documentary • 2012 • 65 minutes
WHEN MEMORY COMES: A FILM ABOUT SAUL FRIEDLANDER is a visually arresting documentary that interweaves leading Holocaust historian Saul Friedlander's personal story of survival with an introduction to his work and thought.
Originally a ...
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Tokyo Shaking
Directed by Olivier Peyon • Drama • 2021 • 101 minutes
In March 2011, the largest tsunami in Japan's history triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Newly transferred to Tokyo from Hong Kong, French executive Alexandra (Karin Viard) finds herself in the middle of the confusion and panic of the...
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A Tale of Love and Desire
Directed by Leila Bouzid • Drama • 2022 • 103 minutes
Ahmed (Sami Outalbali), French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah (Zbeida Belhajamor), a young Tunisian woman, full of energy, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of se...
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Whatever Lola Wants
Directed by Nabil Ayouch • Drama • With Laura Ramsey, Assaad Bouab • 2007 • 115 minutes
Lola (Laura Ramsey) is struggling to pursue her dream of becoming a dancer in New York, but the rejections are piling up. On top of it all, her day job as a mail carrier is beginning to look more and more lik...
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Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
Directed by John Junkerman • Documentary • 2002 • 74 minutes
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: Stop participating in it.”
- Noam ChomskyPower and Terror: Noam Chomsky in our Times gives the public a rare opportunity to see and listen to one of the m...
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Karamay
Directed by XU Xin • Documentary • 2012 • 356 minutes
In 1994, the oil-rich city of Karamay in Northwest China was the site of a horrible fire that killed nearly 300 schoolchildren. The students were performing for state officials and were told to stand by while the officials exited first. After...
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Mariam
Directed by Sharipa Urazbayeva • Drama • With Meruert Sabbusinova • 2019 • 75 minutes
After her husband mysteriously disappears, all the hardships of survival in the cold winter period in the far away village in Kazakhstan have to be carried out by Mariam, the mother of four small kids. To save ...
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Living the Light: Robby Müller
Directed by Claire Pijman • Documentary • With Robby Müller, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Lars von Trier, Steve McQueen • 2018 • 86 minutes
Director of Photography Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, directo...
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Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta • Documentary • With Liv Ullmann, Olivier Assayas, Ruben Östlund • 2018 • 99 minutes
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta examines Ingmar Bergman’s life and work with a circle of his closest collaborators...
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The Greenaway Alphabet
Directed by Saskia Boddeke • Documentary • 2017 • 70 minutes
The fascinations of filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose motto is "art is life and life is art,"are captured like butterflies and arranged in an alphabet, a form that suits him perfectly as an encyclopedist. In intimate conversations with ...
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Neon Heart
Directed by Laurits Flensted-Jensen • Drama • With Vic Carmen Sonne, Karen Sigrid Arild Albrechtsen, Nicklas Svale Andersen • 2018 • 86 minutes
Laura and Niklas are handicap helpers. She was in porn and he in detox. Laura tries to speak with her ex, Niklas. Niklas tries to speak with his teen br...
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Werewolf
Directed by Ashley McKenzie • Drama • With Blaise Andrew Gillis, Nessa Bhreagh MacNeil • 2018 • 80 minutes
The hardscrabble existence of two homeless addicts is portrayed with sensitivity and brutal honesty in acclaimed filmmaker Ashley McKenzie’s debut feature. Shot almost entirely in oblique c...
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Cop Story
Directed by Jacques Deray • Drama • With Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant • 1975 • 112 minutes
In this thriller based on a true story, police inspector Roger Borniche pursues dangerous criminal Émile Buisson, who has embarked on a killing spree.
Please note that this version is dubbed into E...
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Green
Directed by Sophia Takal • Drama • With Kate Lyn Sheil, Sophia Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Louis Cancelmi, Alex Ross Perry and Robert Malone • 2011 • 72 minutes
Genevieve, a New York intellectual, moves to the country with her self-involved journalist boyfriend, Sebastian, while he works on ...