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The Severing is a visceral and powerful feature-length dance film from acclaimed filmmaker Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies) and brilliant choreographer Nina McNeely (Gaspar Noe’s... More
Country: Argentina
The Red Star is a mockumentary following Laila Salama, a mysterious woman who may have contributed to the 1960 kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, neglected from the annals of history. More
Country: Spain, U.S. and Europe
Addressing climate change is the existential question of our time, but climate change and bio-diversity loss are two sides to the same coin. The Land of Azaba is the first feature documentary on the... More
Country: U.S.
In an unprecedented look inside the disabled community, Code of the Freaks gives the mic to some of Hollywood’s most incensed and ignored critics – actual disabled people. More
Country: France, Germany
Marthe Cohn, a 99 year old Jewish woman born in France, tells the story of how she became a spy in Nazi Germany. For decades after the war ended she never spoke about the experience, but now she... More
Country: U.S.
A portrait of the fiercely independent, irascible and iconic American painter Clyfford Still, who through his life and art defied classification. More
Country: France
When a widowed police detective (Adèle Haenel) learns her dead husband was a crooked cop, she tries to help the man scapegoated for his crimes get back to his life and his wife (Audrey Tautou)... More
Country: France
In Bruno Dumont’s farcical follow-up, Li’l Quinquin is all grown up and still living in the Côte D'Opale. When the townsfolk start behaving strangely, our beloved heroes Captain Van... More
Country: India, U.S.
The result of exclusive, intimate access to renowned yogi B. K. S. Iyengar, this documentary about the hugely popular practice is required viewing for anyone with an interest in yoga, wellness,... More
Country: Brazil, France, Portugal
Reality and fantasy collide in the story of a family-owned circus spanning five generations of decadence, love and loss, as told by Cinema Novo master Carlos Diegues (Bye Bye Brazil, Quilombo).... More
Country: Brazil
A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. More
Country: Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, U.S.
A feature documentary as mercurial as its subject: the impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Featuring interviews with Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik. More
Country: U.K.
“Sea Sorrow” marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director and is a very personal, dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of... More
Country: France, Greece, India, Russia, Spain, U.K., U.S.
An uplifting documentary exploring the growing music and social phenomenon of chanting Mantras. More
Country: Ireland
Pritzker Prize winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He reached the top of his profession, but had little interest in celebrity and eschews the label... More
Country: U.S.
A determined single mom, with nothing but guts and vision, breaks through notorious art world barriers to become one of the outstanding painters of our time. More
