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From remastered classics and the latest in digital filmmaking to rare archival prints and tape transfers, at Fandor we believe it's important to find the best available source materials and present them in the highest quality possible. The films collected here are all presented in glorious High Definition.
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The After Party
In 1993, the film THE LAST PARTY was released. The documentary followed Robert Downey Jr.'s initiation in to the world of politics. In 2000 came the sequel, THE PARTY'S OVER, following Philip Seymour Hoffman on the campaign trail. The third film in the trilogy, THE AFTER PARTY, is a documentary about a journalist who is...Start your free trial to watch -
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
In the dead of night, a group of men (among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The...Start your free trial to watch -
Inheritance
Iranian-American filmmaker Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz intimately explores the contemporaneous events of Islamic Revolution and divorce that uprooted her family and embroiled them in the complicated process of diasporic identity formation in the U.S. Inside her mother’s home, Aggie follows the collected remnants of this journey to...Start your free trial to watch -
Catch My Disease
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone almost relentless media scrutiny. This is a playful yet deeply intimate portrait of Lee, exploring his meteoric rise to pop stardom and the issues of celebrity...Start your free trial to watch
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The Sheik and I
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi goes overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun of the Sheik of Sharjah (who rules the country and finances the Biennial), Zahedi decides to do just that, turning his...Start your free trial to watch -
The Great Northwest
An experimental documentary based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in 1958 by four Seattle women who thoroughly documented their journey in an elaborate scrapbook. Fifty years later, Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick found that scrapbook in a thrift store, and in 2010 set out on the road,...Start your free trial to watch -
The Sons of the Clouds
Álvaro Longoria partners with Academy Award winner Javier Bardem for his directorial debut, SONS OF THE CLOUDS. This compelling documentary brings to light the political and human rights issues facing the people of the Western Sahara and the responsibility of Western powers in the effort to restore peace...Start your free trial to watch
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Bestiaire
Fascinating and beguiling, BESTIAIRE is filmmaker Denis Côté's mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park. This strikingly gorgeous work about the act of looking slyly blurs the line between observer and observed (the film opens with art students...Start your free trial to watch -
God's Land
At the stroke of midnight on the 25th of March, in the suburban Texas town of Garland, the voice of God will be heard. The directive of the Creator will pre-empt all other programming on Cable Channel 18 and there He will deliver a message of eternal love, space travel and the end of the world. Teacher Chen is beckoned...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mill and the Cross
THE MILL AND THE CROSS is a "film of great beauty and attention" (Roger Ebert) that stunningly recreates one of the great masterpieces of painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Way to Calvary." Lech Majewski brings the viewer inside the painting with immersive period detail and jaw-dropping digital...Start your free trial to watch -
Blank City
BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (Los Angeles Times) when a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970s through the mid-'80s, when the East Village was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these...Start your free trial to watch -
The Universal Language
Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green, THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE traces the history of Esperanto, an artificial language that was created in the late 1800s by a Polish eye doctor who believed that if everyone in the world spoke a common tongue, humanity could overcome racism and war. Today,...Start your free trial to watch -
Sequestro
In Sao Paulo, kidnapping is an established business. Lucrative and hectic. For four years a film crew followed the police department's anti-kidnapping division (DAS), riding along to locate houses holding captives, listening in on phone calls, freeing horrified victims and busting criminals. Raw, powerful and with incredible...Start your free trial to watch
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The Extraordinary Voyage
THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE chronicles the journey of A TRIP TO THE MOON from the fantastical Georges Méliès' production in 1902 to the astonishing rediscovery of a nitrate print in color in 1993 to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. The story of...Start your free trial to watch -
The Turin Horse
On January 3, 1889, in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene,...Start your free trial to watch -
The Whisperer in Darkness
In 1931, H.P. Lovecraft wrote his classic tale of alien horror, "The Whisperer in Darkness." Lovecraft is now considered one of America's foremost writers of horror fiction, standing alongside the likes of Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. His story, which blends horror and science fiction, relates the...Start your free trial to watch -
The Fairy
Dom works as a night clerk at a small hotel in the industrial port city of Le Havre. One night, a strangely dressed woman named Fiona arrives and claims she is a fairy. She grants Dom three wishes, and makes his first two wishes come true before mysteriously vanishing. By now, Dom has fallen in love with Fiona, and he...Start your free trial to watch
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City of Life and Death
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH, a stunning depiction of the Rape of Nanking, is "a film strong enough to change your life" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). Director Lu Chuan based the film on the recorded witness testimony from the real-life survivors of the massacre, meticulously recreating the infamous reign...Start your free trial to watch -
The Big Fix
On Earth Day 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig sank, creating the worst oil spill in history. According to the global media, the story ended when the well was capped, but that's when the real story began. By exposing the root causes of the oil spill and what really happened after the news cameras left the Gulf...Start your free trial to watch
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40 West
Through a series of events beyond her control, Maeve (Jennifer Nichole Porter) a Blues musician, finds herself trapped in a East Texas motel room with her violent husband, Colin (Brian White), who unbeknownst to her, has been released from prison early. Held hostage with her is Elijah (Scott Winters) a professed Good...Start your free trial to watch -
Headshot
A darkly turbulent crime noir from Thai new wave director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, HEADSHOT is an existential thriller, ripe with shadowy paranoia that will turn your world upside-down, literally. This disorienting game of cat and mouse is played out in present-day Thailand, where corruption runs rampant and the good die young....Start your free trial to watch -
Dark Horse
In his mid-30s, Abe (Jordan Gelber) clings to the trappings of his adolescence, including the extensive collection of toys and action figures adorning his boyhood bedroom. Still living with his parents Jackie (Christopher Walken) and Phyllis (Mia Farrow), Abe works for his increasingly disappointed Dad and spends evenings...Start your free trial to watch
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Natural Selection
Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at SXSW and nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Actress for Rachael Harris, NATURAL SELECTION is a wonderfully irreverent comedy about a devoted Texas housewife whose carefully ordered world is turned upside down when she sets out to find...Start your free trial to watch -
Footprints
The feature directorial debut of award-winning writer Steven Peros (the screenwriter of Peter Bogdanovich's THE CAT'S MEOW), FOOTPRINTS is a haunting, hopeful and unforgettable mystery which chronicles a young woman's journey of discovery on Hollywood Boulevard in one day, from sunrise to sunset. Sybil Temtchine stars as a...Start your free trial to watch -
99 Clerkenwell Road
Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punched stencils, passing buses shoot beams of light. A toy...Start your free trial to watch -
In Their Hands
IN THEIR HANDS follows the psychotherapy of vulnerable people, that in some cases have been destroyed by acts of torture. Their speech deals with an inhuman past: they want to stop the pain, rule out the folly and protect their family from the violence that sleeps within them, be understood and recognized; these are the...Start your free trial to watch
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Future So Bright
FUTURE SO BRIGHT is a documentation and mapping project that creatively catalogs abandoned spaces in the American West. Perhaps best classified as an experimental-documentary, the film explores ghost towns, abandoned military bases, and boarded up tourist traps to present a meditative time capsule of the...Start your free trial to watch -
C'est parti
One morning in a building on the outskirts of Paris, men and women of all ages begin to empty a large office. They threw dozens of files out the window. Among the people, Olivier Besancenot, the famous 35-year-old leader of the French radical left. He and his friends are getting rid of the archives which have been...Start your free trial to watch -
Unraveled
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations branded the white-collar crime...Start your free trial to watch
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We Are Not Having Any Trouble in Our Department Despite What You've Heard
Artist and filmmaker Jonn Herschend offers a delightful musing on the emotional agendas that often underlie professional relationships. A promotional video for a Danish art museum in which the spokeswoman discusses the evolution of the museum turns into a literal battle over a failed relationship and the...Start your free trial to watch -
Pastoral no.5
An open glade with a couple making out on a blanket foregrounds a lovely wooded hill that filmmaker, visual artist and interdisciplinarian Jonn Herschend frames for another of his chronicles of dysfunction in the workplace. The director of a film using the park as a location calls action and a couple walks out of the trees...Start your free trial to watch -
The Mirrored Curtain
"Let's See It" on this brand new episode of TAKE ME THERE. Experience the duality of a singular location anywhere and all over the world where there's always something to see and almost everything to imagine. This is a travel show, marking an adventure to a place, a non-space, an unnamed border. Another...Start your free trial to watch




