On a drunken walk home, bohemian drug-dealer Kumi (Kumiko Ota) discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Attracted by the vast and untapped space rampant with luxuriant vegetation, she promptly sells all of her belongings and retreats from the world. She carves an island out of t...

For Honorine Soma, maternal health is about much more than pre-natal care. A trained midwife, Soma is the founder and director of Wolobougou, a clinic in the village of Farakoba, Burkina Faso. The name means “place of compassionate birth” — and the staff at the clinic embody that mission. Soma an...

The latest film from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (FISH & CAT, CARELESS CRIME) is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like thriller about reality and illusion, doubles and doppelgängers and uncanny synchronicities, involving stories-within-stories set during production of a film plagued by a prop gun ...

Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she defiantly tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employing antiquated techniques, Agatha plants and harvests her expansive field of watermelons, b...

Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, an uneasy relationship sprouts. Begrudgingly, Shunzo agrees to lower his prices. Soon, Le...

Czech director Otakar Vávra's astonishing KRAKATIT is a literal fever dream of a movie that mixes 1940s Film Noir, paranoid thriller and speculative atomic-bomb Sci-Fi in the story of a chemist named Prokop who hallucinates fragments of how he's invented a proto-nuclear weapon -- and the mystery ...

As 21-year-old Kana's mood oscillates between high and lows, her relationships devolve into increasing chaos. Yoko Yamanaka's sophomore character study is a searingly honest examination of womanhood and mental health in contemporary Japan.

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Ai (a super Tomona Hirota) haunts the streets of Osaka dressed as a mascot. After going home with a stranger, she wakes up to find footage of their intimate encounter uploaded to a porn site. As all systems of recourse and remedy fail her and her sense of dislocation and alienation intensifies, A...

Investigating the murder of the young Hanzel (Yul Servo) shot dead one winter night, detective Juan Mijares (Joel Torres) plumbs the depths of the Filipino gangs of Jersey city who trade in crystal meth. Talking to the boy’s mother, remarried to an American; to his grandfather, an ex-soldier, big...

The Swallows of Kabul is a powerful animated drama adapted from Yasmina Khadra's acclaimed novel, set in Kabul during the summer of 1998 under Taliban rule. Young lovers Zunaira and Mohsen dream of a future free from violence, oppression, and religious extremism, while prison guard Atiq struggles...

How to navigate the world fiercely when it doesn’t seem created for your body, work, well-being, love? SHE THEY US is a series capturing the vision of women and their future, inspired by intersectional feminism and global responsibility. We work and fight for a more equal future in the episodes: ...

Spanning eight decades and four continents, filmmaker and editor Mary Stephen embarks on a personal investigation into her English surname. It is not intended to be a narcissistic exploration, but rather an effort to uncover the dissonances and contradictions in our heritage that, despite our all...

On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically-elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army.

Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that...

Ultra-rare German silent horror film from pioneering director/writer Henrik Galeen (who wrote NOSFERATU and WAXWORKS). In ALRAUNE, Brigitte Helm (METROPOLIS) is the unholy offspring of a genetics experiment conducted by her scientist "father" Paul Wegener (THE GOLEM).

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Directed by Grigori Kromanov • Drama • 1979 • 84 minutes

Estonian director Grigori Kromanov's dazzling, paranoid mixture of locked-room mystery, 1970s Euro giallo, classic noir whodunit, and (unbelievably) alien sci-fi ala THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, based on a novel by famed Soviet authors Arkad...

Ultra-rare German silent horror film from pioneering director/writer Henrik Galeen (who wrote NOSFERATU and WAXWORKS). In THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE, Conrad Veidt (THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI) stars as a hellraising student who sells his soul to the Devil.

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The Stocamine project, in Alsace, was supposed to allow tons of dangerous industrial waste to be stored deep underground for thousands of years, with no risk to the environment. Just three years later, fire broke out. Then the underground galleries started to collapse. One of Europe’s most import...

Will trees save the planet? That is the promise made by governments, the logging industry and various environmental organizations. As deforestation accelerates and CO2 emissions hit record highs, planting trees is touted as a common-sense solution to the ecological crisis. But is it really that s...

A delirious early 1970s space opera produced by the East German state-run studio DEFA and directed by Gottfried Kolditz, SIGNALS: A SPACE ADVENTURE (1970) was DEFA's attempt to outdo Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

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Saying goodbye to loved ones at the Beirut airport has become an unfortunate tradition in Lebanon, almost a curse. Lebanese emigrants, driven abroad by decades of turmoil, are more than double those still left in their homeland. After civil protests erupt in Lebanon on October 17th 2019, WE NEVER...

BOOMBA RIDE is a scathing comic satire of corruption in India's rural education system - and one 8-year old boy who knows how to rig the game for himself. Inspired by a true story, the film was shot in the state of Assam on the banks of the Brahmaputra River with a mostly nonprofessional cast. Th...

Filmed on the Ocean Viking, a ship chartered by the humanitarian organization SOS Méditerranée, SAVE OUR SOULS places viewers alongside sailors and medics as they face the perilous mission of rescuing migrants from overcrowded boats.

Off the coast of Libya, the crew are on the lookout for boats...

When a woman’s body is discovered on the banks of a river near a small town in southern China, it’s up to police investigator Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), working out of an abandoned cinema, to find the killer—but what at first appears to be an open-and-shut case turns out to be only the first layer of a...

The highs and lows of a restless youth collide headlong into the concrete realities of adulthood when Leonardo, a teenager from Palermo leaves home for the first time. His studies land him in Siena, by way of London, where he clashes with his instructor, the curriculum, and most chaotically, with...