When Chantal Akerman was invited to participate in a series on filmmakers portrayed by other filmmakers, all the directors she chose had already been picked by others. Jokingly she suggested herself as a subject and it was accepted. This is the result.
Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson), a family-law magistrate, is assigned a case involving a young man with an unusual outlook on life. Their meeting has immense emotional consequences. An impressive adaptation of Ian McEwan’s esteemed bestseller.
When Filipina stay-at-home nurse Christie disappears, Araleh is forced to help his brother tend to their dying father. Trying to protect himself, he begins scattering white lies, which only bring closer the inevitable end they all feared.
Zelal is a seven-year-old Ezidi Kurdish girl. Zeki is a shy boy who adores her from a distance. They live in Turkey. Their lives change dramatically on a regular school day when they are exposed to the letter “O.”
In Manila, men and women carry out the Internet’s dirty work—screening content on social networks. Yet underneath their work lies profound questions around what makes an image art or propaganda and what defines journalism..
A group of dancers meets to rehearse for 3 days. On the last night they throw a wild party. When things spiral out of control, the dance floor becomes a hell-on-earth. French cinema’s enfant terrible Gaspar Noé’s critically acclaimed new film.
Copa-Loca is an abandoned resort in Greece. Paulina, its only guest, makes sure that whoever happens to arrive, receives the best possible service. Based on the director’s memories of sunny summers in Greece in the 1990s.
With her fiancé on the battlefront, Veronika must go on with her routine and wait for a sign of life as WWII rages on. A digitally-restored print of Mikhail Kalatozov’s Soviet masterpiece, winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or in 1958.
Chinese director Wang Bing confronts us with survivors of Chinese labor camps in which suspect “extreme rightists” were imprisoned by Mao’s regime and left to die. An eight-hour monumental work praised by critics at Cannes. Screened in two parts.
A winning collaboration between basketball superstar Koby Bryant, legendary composer John Williams, and animator Glen Keane that chronicles Koby’s career, from his youthful dreams to his retirement from the NBA, in captivating hand-drawn animation.
A staggering drama that tackles one of the most troubling phenomenon of recent decades in the US: school shootings. At the heart of this film is a 911 call concerning an unusual event in Atlanta.
A teacher assigns her students a routine task: to document their daily lives. She does not expect one boy’s account to reference a crime that ends with his parents’ deaths. The event highlights the moral boundaries in art and pedagogy.
An intimate work following the director’s father as he copes with an inevitable reality: the downfall of the family’s modest bus company. Due to his financial distress, he is forced to expand his services to dubious communities.
Before going to war, three brothers reunite for one weekend to bury their father in their native kibbutz on the border with Lebanon. As war rages all around them, the two older brothers begin the same violent ritual training that was initiated by their late father, in order to prepare the youngest for his first war.
Miguel travels to Cape Verde in search of the father he never knew. This quest turns into a bizarre odyssey. Questions of identity and belonging are set against the magnificent landscapes of this African archipelago of volcanic islands.
Marcello runs a dog boarding facility, but another job leads him to a dangerous relationship with a violent former boxer. Matteo Garrone’s (Gomorra) new film is about an eternal victim who wants to change his fate. Best Actor Award at Cannes.
After an all-night drinking binge, cartoonist John Callaghan finds himself confined to a wheelchair. Gus Van Sant’s new film is a bittersweet comic drama based on a true-life story, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara.
Taking advantage of the raging war in the Donbass region, Ukraine, gangs perpetuate crime and the propaganda machine works incessantly. Sergei Loznitsa’s (A Gentle Creature) new film, winner of the Un Certain Regard Director Award at Cannes.
In 2005, Chantal Akerman arrived in Tel Aviv with her camera. For a month, she films neighboring windows from her apartment, and reads excerpts aloud from her journal including notes on Judaism, film, and her family.
Avner suspects his wife is cheating on him. Secretly recording her phone conversations, he tries to discover her lover’s identity. But while searching for one thing, he discovers another. He doesn't really know the woman he loves.
The psychiatrist’s office invites a myriad of abnormal situations. The hero is a patient suffering from a light case of confusion: he believes he is the psychiatrist. The result: a crazy session that spins out of control.
The Molina family from Buenos Aires makes a living in the shadows of the legendary Boca Stadium. Selling counterfeit tickets is lucrative, but dangerous: while her sons sink deeper in trouble, their mother tries to save them.
A successful businessman invites his brother, a provincial teacher who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, to stay with him in Rome. Euphoria’s depiction of their sibling relationship is surprisingly creative and touching.
An isolated tribe from Amazonia has been encroached by modernity since 1969. In the midst of this new world, an ex-shaman who was forced into Christianity struggles to cure the suffering people of his village, and faces the wrath of the forest spirits, who are upset he has abandoned them.
