A delirious early 1970s space opera produced by the East German state-run studio DEFA and directed by Gottfried Kolditz, the insanely groovy IN THE DUST OF THE STARS (1976) features a nonstop underground disco where partygoers spritz hallucinogenic mouth-spray, scantily clad super-models voguing ...

Parwin and Amir grew up in a military camp. As toddlers they were sent away by their parents who wanted to focus on fighting the Mulla-regime of Iran. 30 years later they are still hoping to reunite with their mothers. Will they ever succeed?

An untold scandal involving around a thousand childre...

Recently exposed classified trial transcripts of the 1956 massacre by Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian village of Kafr Qasim interwoven with survivors' testimonies shed new light on unknown facts and troubling truths on the societal relations in Israel and Palestine. A cinematic montage allows...

When filmmaker Alex Rappoport met then-79-year-old abstract artist Peter Bradley in early 2020, Bradley hadn't sold many paintings or had a major show in over four decades - yet he still painted every day in a shipping-container studio heated by a wood stove, no matter what the weather. Over time...

In 1989, the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year dictatorship in Paraguay marked the end of one of the world’s longest authoritarian regimes, but also the abandonment of the audiovisual archives that had cemented its power. This footage, crafted to shape a national identity and celebrate the reg...

The astonishing debut feature from 23-year old writer/director Achal Mishra. THE VILLAGE HOUSE is a lovely, luminous and gentle portrait of a large extended Indian family over several decades.

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In 1929, Irish designer Eileen Gray created E.1027 on the sun-soaked Côte d'Azur – a bold and hidden gem of avant-garde architecture. This striking house was meant to be a personal refuge.

But when the legendary architect Le Corbusier stumbled upon it, fascination turned to obsession. He covered...

From the director of Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams and the Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Instruments of a Beating Heart comes a heartfelt exploration of Japanese identity as seen through the perspective of schoolchildren.

Tsukado, located in one of Tokyo’s sprawling suburbs, is one of the...

A celebrated writer with a penchant for extreme experiences and solo treks, Pierre (Jean Dujardin), is a survivor of his own life. He has always done everything on his terms. One drunken evening, he climbs the facade of a building and falls several stories. The accident leaves him in a deep coma....

Teen artist Angie Chen does NOT like Liam--she just likes getting rides home from him after soccer practice. Okay, so he has great eyebrows, but he's with Sheryl, the Instagram princess of their Episcopalian private school. After Angie is blindsided by her parents' sudden divorce, Liam serves as ...

Joseph (Alexis Manenti) is the last shepherd on the island still grazing his goats on clifftop pastures overlooking the sea. But his land—passed down through generations—is coveted by the mafia and the forces of unchecked greed.

When a group of menacing strangers arrives at his door to pressure ...

Filmed over five years, WRITING HAWA follows three generations of Hazara women from the same family in Afghanistan. With unique access and empathy, director Najiba Noori films her mother Hawa and niece Zahra in their aspirations to free themselves from patriarchal traditions. Forced into marriage...

Television broadcasting debuted in Sweden in 1957. And Swedish public broadcaster SVT began covering Israel and Palestine almost from day one.

In ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989, filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975) masterfully weaves together some of this foo...

A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a man visiting his dying father in a sanatorium to the edge of a mythic forest. Based on the book of the same name by Bruno Schultz.

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In the vein of horror anthologies like Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, the long-unseen PRAGUE NIGHTS is a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient and modern Prague. Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher's stone, and complex multi-level labyrinth of underground t...

Czech director Jiří Weiss's breathtaking B&W fairy tale is one of the most unjustly neglected treasures of 1960s fantasy filmmaking with overtones of Cocteau's BEAUTY & THE BEAST. A handsome young shepherd (Vít Olmer) stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning forest fairy (...

PERSONALE is set at a four-star hotel in northeastern Italy — a luxurious spot in the Dolomite Mountains, where guests come to ski, swim, and relax. But instead of the scenery, the film focuses on the unseen: the housekeeping staff who are at the bottom of the hotel hierarchy, and whose work is a...

Hungarian director József Gémes' animated portrait of the supposedly "heroic" age of medieval knights and kings, a sprawling and bloody tapestry of ruthless combat to rival "Game Of Thrones." Based on an epic narrative poem by famed 19th century Hungarian writer János Arany.

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In the early 1970s, behind the Iron Curtain, Lithuanian director Arūnas Žebriūnas created one of the wildest rock operas of the decade. A mash-up of TOMMY, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and THE WICKER MAN filled with ecstatic hippie orgies in heaven, legions of female demons on hors...

What is humankind's role in nature? Is there such a thing as Nature? What does the word mean? Are human beings simply destroyers of biodiversity and balance or do we have another purpose? In The Edge of Nature, Oscar-Nominated, Emmy-Winning director Josh Fox isolates himself in the woods amidst a...

From Prasanna Vithanage, one of Sri Lanka's most acclaimed directors, comes this sweeping historical drama of a Sinhala noble woman (Dinara Punchihewa) forced to choose between suicide or marriage to a low-caste outcast (Sri Lankan star Sajitha Anuththara) -- the two opposites are forced to depen...

"Tabula rasa and vita nova," exclaims artist Jean-Yves Machond (Benoît Poelvoorde). "A clean slate and a new life." Leaving Brussels and his job as a professor to settle in Normandy, Machond searches for inspiration, convinced he still has something to say with his art.

Complete with sliding hou...

With humor and finesse, THE HELL OF AUSCHWITZ: MAUS BY ART SPIEGELMAN explores Art Spiegelman's comic book masterpiece, Maus, which revolutionized the portrayal of the Holocaust.

Published in two volumes in 1986 and 1991 respectively, Spiegelman accomplished a double revolution: he brought the H...

Jan Teunissen (1898-1975) loved films. He loved them so much, he shot daily home movies of his children, became a professional director, and made the first Dutch film with sound. And when the Nazis occupied Holland, he started making films for them too.

Was he a true believer? An anti-Semite? An...