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Right Now, Wrong Then
Quite by accident, film director Chunsu arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist, Yoon Heejung. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And...Watch Movie
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Fireworks Wednesday
From the two-time Academy Award® winning director of THE SALESMAN and A SEPARATION, Asghar Farhadi's FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY is a gripping, suspenseful drama – a story of marital intrigue and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year. Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is...Watch Movie
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Behemoth
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang's visionary new film BEHEMOTH details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove...Watch Movie
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Mimosas
Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe's stunning film, MIMOSAS, is a breathtakingly shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Somewhere in the desert, a caravan is escorting an elderly sheik...Watch Movie
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Kaili Blues
An audacious, richly imagined feature debut that has collected prizes around the world, KAILI BLUES heralds the arrival of a major new filmmaker. Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mother's wish and sets off on a...Watch Movie
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Don't Blink - Robert Frank
One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, DON'T BLINK is a documentary about Robert Frank, the legendary photographer and filmmaker behind the seminal book "The Americans" and landmark films like "Pull My Daisy" and "C***sucker Blues". Directed by his longtime...Watch Movie
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Kate Plays Christine
A gripping nonfiction thriller, Robert Greene's KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed a shocking act on live television in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck's...Watch Movie
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The Sapphire of St. Louis
In 1741, a ship called the Saphir sets sail from a port in La Rochelle, France on its way to the New World. On board are thirty crewmembers and two hundred seventy-one slaves. Somewhere off the coast of Santo Domingo, a slave revolt erupts. This little-known moment in history...Watch Movie
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The Human Surge
One of the year's most bracingly original debuts, Eduardo Williams' THE HUMAN SURGE is a global journey that jumps without warning from Argentina to the Philippines to Mozambique; a road movie that fuses fiction and documentary for a portrait of today's youth at a time of economic uncertainty and...Watch Movie
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La Artefacta
Nicola Costantino is one of Latin America's most controversial and admired visual artists. With often macabre imagery rooted in a violence that pervades the history of Argentina, she is known for provocative works, such as lifelike casts of animals, soap constructed out of fat liposuctioned from...Watch Movie
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Fish Tail
Rabo de Peixe (literally translated as 'fish tail') is the name of a village in the Azores that is home to the largest collection of artisanal fisheries on the whole archipelago. The residents, mostly fishermen and their families, have relied on these waters for generations. FISH TAIL is a...Watch Movie
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Portrait of a Garden
In a picturesque garden on a grand country estate, two long time friends, an 85-year old pruning master and the gardener, tend to the espaliers. Surrounded by vegetable patches, citrus trees, the orchard and lush grapevines, they talk about food, the weather, their craft...Watch Movie
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Lost and Beautiful
Despite death threats from the Mafia and his country's general apathy, a humble shepherd, Tommaso, takes it upon himself to look after the abandoned Bourbon palace of Carditello, deep in the heart of the "Land of Fires". One day, Tommaso is seized by a heart attack and dies;...Watch Movie
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Unseen: The Lives of Looking
This revelatory documentary from artist Dryden Goodwin focuses on four individuals, each with a distinct relationship to looking: an international eye surgeon, a NASA planetary explorer, a leading human rights lawyer and the artist/filmmaker himself. Mixing Goodwin's closely...Watch Movie
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In the Game
Directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo and produced by Kartemquin Films, IN THE GAME is a moving, timely documentary that follows the story of the girls' soccer team at Kelly High School on Chicago's south side. Set in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Brighton Park, Kelly High...Watch Movie
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Storm Children
With striking black & white photography, this critically-acclaimed observational documentary from Philippine master Lav Diaz takes stock of the devastation wrought by typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) on the Philippine coastal town of Tacloban. The film, which follows three children as they cope with the...Watch Movie
