When dedicated high school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), it’s not long before she also falls for his 4-year-old daughter Leila. The adolescent giddiness of Rachel and Ali’s late night rendezvous and secret sleepovers evolves into the familiar warmth of fami...

Unflappable and unstoppable mouse secret agent Nick Grabovsky (László Sinkó) with his deadpan voice, baggy pants and a big "G" on his shirt, goes up against the criminal cat gang run by the sinister, metal-pawed Mr. Teufel (Miklós Benedek), in Hungarian director Béla Ternovszky's animated sci-fi ...

A psychedelic Danish animated kids' film in which a young boy, bored with the dreary Adult World, follows an enchanted tadpole into his bathtub where he discovers a surreal and musical undersea world populated by singing Mermaids, a funky hepcat Octopus and whiskey-drinking Skeleton Pirates. In t...

A desperate filmmaker is seized by inspiration when he and his girlfriend adopt a traumatized rescue dog. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to deal with this addition to the household. The couple each pursue their own deep held individual questions surrounding trust, purpose ...

In Hummingbirds, Silvia and Beba tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas-Mexico border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinks. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates...

A unique and riveting theatrical experience, CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO (CVR) is a performance documentary derived entirely from the “Black Box” transcripts of six major real-life airline emergencies. When you board an airplane, who are those people in uniform to whom you entrust your life? What do the...

The Islamic State group consumed the attention of the West for years. They were despised, feared, and by some, embraced. But who were they? Filmed in prisons and detention camps, this engrossing documentary turns the camera on men and women who committed their lives to the Islamic State, tracing ...

The revolutionary fervor that swept through Latin America in the 20th century owes much to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith. Driven by liberation theology, they paid a heavy price for undermining the traditional relationship...

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Abruzzo National Park, A WORLD APART follows veteran teacher Michele Cortese as he begins an unexpected chapter in his life.

Arriving during a snowstorm to take a post at a tiny rural school on the verge of closure, Cortese (Antonio Albanese) finds hi...

After a tumultuous life in Paris, Michelle (Hélène Vincent) has retired to a quiet existence in Burgundy, tending her garden and attending services at her parish. The voracious hostility of her adult daughter Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier) remains Michelle’s great puzzlement: how can a child for whom...

Final Vows chronicles the life of a cloistered order of nuns at Santa Rita Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the high desert of Arizona. The nuns, who take a vow that binds them to remain in the community they entered for life, candidly share their joys and struggles. While each woman's journey is...

Keeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to recreate at least some of the normal life they had before the war — until February 24, 2022 (and in some regions even earlier, in 2014). Without interviews, narration and reenactments, TIMESTAMP provides an insight into how the war is affecting the...

With seamless grace, shooting on 16 mm, and underscored by a soundtrack from Brian Eno, German director Jonas Bak moves from the tall spires of the Black Forest to the teeming skyscrapers of Hong Kong in his tranquil, deeply moving feature debut. 

Anke retires from her job at the church in a sma...

A teenage girl and her 173-year-old companion take an epic journey in French director Jean-François Laguionie's hauntingly poetic animated classic. A sublime masterpiece of world animation, GWEN is on par with René Laloux's FANTASTIC PLANET and Miyazaki's NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND as a v...

A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage. Ostensibly a merry reunion between well-known film director Blake Cadieux ...

Inspired by a real-life tragedy, the infamous Cinema Rex fire in 1978 that triggered the Iranian Revolution, Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's mind-bending mystery leapfrogs between past and present, fact and fiction to create an unforgettable picture of Time not as a straight line, bu...

Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W mystery / comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate, played out in deadpan Jim Jarmusch-meets-Tarantino vignettes.

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Mellodrama, a documentary by Dianna Dilworth, explores the rising and falling fortunes of the Mellotron – the first musical keyboard to "sample" the sounds of other instruments – from its birth in a California garage in the 1950s, through its dominance on concert stages in the 1970s, through its ...

Block Pass is a queer motocross coming-of-age drama—sensitive, deeply felt, and quietly profound—that establishes Antoine Chevrollier as a filmmaker to watch.

Reminiscent of Rebel Without a Cause, but with dirt bikes as the vehicle for defiance, the film follows blood-brothers Willy (Sayyid El A...

On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters searching for tusks of extinct mammoths discover a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Resurrecting the woolly mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution - genetics. Werner Herzog meets Juras...

George Harrison famously claimed, "No Lead Belly, no Beatles." Revered by countless musicians - the 1st record Janis Joplin ever bought was Lead Belly. The definitive bio, with historic performances and extraordinary archive access. The folk/blues icon from childhood through prison to worldwide f...

In this third production from The Holocaust Education Film Foundation, actor Robert Clary (best known for his role in the TV series Hogan's Heroes) personally tells his "how I got to Hollywood" true story.What began with a close-knit loving family was followed by the horrors of war, genocide, two...

Celebrated actress Fanny Ardant stars as “France”, a well-to-do widow living alone in her Parisian apartment. When she hears on the radio that an NGO is pairing homeless refugees with those who have an available room, France decides to help. Through this, she meets a young Afghan refugee named Re...

Retrieving the diamonds he stashed before his arrest, thief Miyamoto hopes to help his old partner Mihara, crippled during the heist. Their former boss, crime lord Oyane, offers to mediate with a foreign buyer, but secretly wants the stones for himself.

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