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Redemption Trail
Two powerful, yet deeply troubled women (refugees from political and personal trauma) flee a past that haunts them. The daughter of a murdered Black Panther revolutionary, Tess, lives off the grid on a Sonoma vineyard, fiercely detached from all connections. Her hermetic life...Watch Movie
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George Tice: Seeing Beyond the Moment
Long recognized for his deeply penetrating photographic record of America, George Tice works in the urban tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper and Walker Evans. From his home and studio in New Jersey, Tice shares his life and work spanning six decades and eighteen books...Watch Movie
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Alluvion
Different temporalities spatially co-exist in a Turkish coastal town: the linear time of history and daily life, the cyclical time of seasons and days and the tourist time that stands still. A father and his grown children of unnamed nationality, make their way through a landscape where ancient...Watch Movie
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Detonator
In this gritty Philadelphia-based thriller, Sully, former frontman of a once prominent punk band, anxiously trudges toward a new world in order to remain in his young son's daily life when ex-bandmate Mick catches him mid-stride with a promise to make good on an old debt. In one hellish night,...Watch Movie
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Aerodrome
Set in upstate New York's Old Rhineback Aerodrome. This visually stunning documentary paints an intimate portrait of a group of pilots who not only transcend the modern world of aviation, but stay true to what pioneers held close to their hearts over one hundred years ago. With the oldest flying...Watch Movie
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Bob Birdnow's Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self
When invited by an old friend to speak to a struggling sales team at a conference, Bob Birdnow reluctantly agrees. Bob's attempt to say something motivational takes an unexpected turn when, forced off script and desperate, he begins the one story he'd hoped he'd never have to...Watch Movie
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I Always Said Yes
The story of a sometimes-overlooked gay liberation and independent filmmaking pioneer is told in I ALWAYS SAID YES. In late 1971, Wakefield Poole, a respected Broadway dancer and choreographer, had the audacity to put his real name above the title of his first film, a low-...Watch Movie
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Letters to Max
What is the job of a diplomat for a country that does not exist? With this question, acclaimed filmmaker Eric Baudelaire initiates a wide-ranging correspondence with his friend Maxim Gvinjia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Abkhazia, a country with physical borders, a government and its...Watch Movie
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What Now? Remind Me
Joaquim Pinto has been an instrumental figure in Portuguese cinema for over thirty years, whether directing his own films, as producer or sound designer for renowned filmmakers such as Raul Ruiz, Manoel de Oliveira and Joao Cesar Monteiro. In his newest film, WHAT NOW? REMIND...Watch Movie
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Stray Dogs
In the newest film from Tsai Ming-liang, a single father makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway. His children wait out their days in supermarkets before they eat with their father and go to sleep in an abandoned building. As...Watch Movie
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Siddharth
The spellbinding and gorgeously wrought tale of one father's journey across India in search of his son. Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory....Watch Movie
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Zizek literally goes inside some truly...Watch Movie
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Child's Pose
The top prize winner at the Berlin Film Festival, Calin Peter Netzer's sharply crafted CHILD'S POSE pivots on a riveting performance by Luminita Gheorghiu as a steely, well-to-do Bucharest architect determined to keep her thirty-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far...Watch Movie
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Sticky Wicket
In the small town of Brunswick, Maine, the Women-Only Croquet Club is the only organized resistance to a corporate takeover by an invading cineplex movie chain. In its direct path is a 100 seat, hippie-built theater called the Eveningstar Cinema, crunched into a tiny, jewelry-store-sized space at...Watch Movie
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Falsework
The Presidio Pet Cemetery, nestled under Doyle Drive at the foot of McDowell Avenue, is the final resting place for the more than four-hundred and twenty dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, lizards and goldfish that once lived on the military base at the Presidio. Grave markers date back more than fifty...Watch Movie
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Pinball
Think of PINBALL as a spinning flying saucer which lands in your yard, performs, and then flies away to the sound of film flapping in a projector... The film visualizes George Antheil's 1952 revision of "Ballet Mecanique" using trigger fast cutting, painted imagery and sound effects. It might be...Watch Movie
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Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
"John Frum prophesied the occurrence of a cataclysm in which Tanna would become flat, the volcanic mountains would fall and fill the river-beds to form fertile plains, and Tanna would be joined to the neighbouring islands of Eromanga and Aneityum to form a new island. Then...Watch Movie
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mother mortar, father pestle
A government in the habit of dismissing science sees the world shift into a weather pattern of perpetual twilight that the officials have trouble explaining. Despite this some individuals go about their business: The Theologian continues his crisis of faith, the Secularist...Watch Movie
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The Animal Project
Leo is a mid-30s widower, single parent and struggling theatre director. His relationship with his teenage son is rocky, and he's dissatisfied with his everyday life. So, after he has an unusual and inspiring dream, he decides to shake things up by having the group of actors...Watch Movie
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Closed Curtain
Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi bravely defies his twenty-year ban on filmmaking yet again, and stunningly, he has created a masterpiece that not only lives up to his earlier, pre-ban work but surpasses it in many ways. In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a...Watch Movie
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Left Foot Right Foot
Marie, a subdued young woman just emerging from adolescence, is drawn by luxury and glitter like a moth to a flame. Her life changes dramatically when she meets Olivier, a wealthy nightclub owner, who is unable to resist her disconcerting candor. Through him, she learns how to...Watch Movie
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Blood Pressure
Nicole, forty-one years old, is a pharmacist with a husband and two teenage kids, who is at a point in her life when she is asking if "this is it," or whether there's something more. One day she gets a letter from an anonymous Observer who knows her daily habits, and her potential, intimately. He...Watch Movie
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My Funny Valentine
MY FUNNY VALENTINE is the comic story about a struggling young writer that when love continues to elude him, he turns to what he does best and simply writes the girl of his dreams into his life. The newly single Zander struggles to find both love and himself. All of this...Watch Movie
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Concrete Night
A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable fourteen-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarcerated brother company. The official Finnish submission to the Academy Awards® for Best...Watch Movie
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The Phone Call
Winner of the 2015 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. THE PHONE CALL follows Heather, (played by Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins), a shy lady who works at a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man (played by Oscar® winner Jim Broadbent) she has no idea...Watch Movie
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Rubai
The First Holy Communion, a bastion of Irish tradition and culture, is fast approaching and eight-year-old Rúbaí flatly refuses to be a part of it. She's an atheist and proud of it and whilst she is happy to stand by her convictions the wider society has a problem with such an independent girl...Watch Movie
