An immersive journey through 70 years of images and sounds from Lebanon, marked by beauty, trauma, joy, and forgetting.
Lana Daher | 2026 | 75 minutes | Color | French; Arabic; English | English subtitles
Filmmaker Lynne Sachs has saved every business card ever given to her. They are a reminder of how someone she met in person shifted her consciousness and left a residue of their being in hers.
Lynne Sachs | 2026 | 83 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
In Glasgow, an inspiring and profoundly moving portrait of what citizens are capable of in the face of injustice.
Felipe Bustos Sierra | 2026 | 99 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey.
Igor Bezinović | 2026 | 112 minutes | Color | Croatian; Italian | English subtitles
In a lavish country villa, a will reading is the occasion for three couples’ romantic and sexual pursuits and deceptions.
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | 2022 | 84 minutes | French | English subtitles
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.
Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra | 2017 | 135 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles
Explores one of the world's longest conflicts through archival Swedish TV footage, challenging conventions of history-writing and how media perceived the issue.
Göran Hugo Olsson | 2025 | 206 minutes | Color | Swedish; English; Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's legendary portrait of Paris and Parisians at the close of the Algerian war.
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme | 2013 | 145 minutes | English; French | English subtitles
A unique three-part series that looks at the deep roots of the "infinite roller-coaster" of conflict that has ensnared Israel, Iran and the United States.
Ilan Ziv | 2026 | 181 minutes | Color | Hebrew; Arabic; English; Farsi | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Filmmaker and editor Mary Stephen embarks on a personal investigation into her English surname.
Mary Stephen | 2026 | 109 minutes | Color | English; French; Mandarin | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
A woman’s quest to reconnect with her late father through a butterfly that becomes an unexpected guide into his past.
Rena Effendi | 2026 | 101 minutes | Color | English; Russian | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Defying modernity, 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her family's farm, growing vegetables and preserving heirloom seeds. Without a driver's license, cell phone, running water, or even a functioning landline Agatha’s daily rituals form a vivid counterpoint to modern life.
Amalie Atkins | 2025 | 86 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
Largely unknown today, this is the history of Emerik Blum's company, Energoinvest, which defied capitalist conventions on its way to success.
Jasmila Žbanić | 2025 | 76 minutes | Color | Bosnian; English; German | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Snow and ice, as far as the eye can see - Nikolaus Geyrhalter's new film immerses audiences in a world of white. MELT explores these spectacular locations and the gradual disappearance of the ice that was once assumed to be eternal.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter | 2026 | 128 minutes | Color | English; German; French; Japanese | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
A celebration of Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade's sensual vision.
Heddy Honigmann | 2007 | 76 minutes | Color | English subtitles
In the '70s and early '80s Detroit was the site of an unusual development in U.S. urban politics, as voters elected two socialists to citywide office. The film examines these people against the backdrop of a city in extreme economic crisis.
Stephen Lighthill | 1980 | 55 minutes | Color
Cinematic meditation on technology and motherhood. Directed by Natalia Almada.
Natalia Almada | 2022 | 81 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Inviting viewers on a cinematic pilgrimage to her homeland of Morocco, Bitton explores her Jewish roots through the sphere of the Muslim guardians of the nation’s Jewish memory, centered around the tradition of "ziyara".
Simone Bitton | 2021 | 99 minutes | Color | Arabic; French; Hebrew; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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