Directed by Alain Kassanda • 2023 • France, Nigeria

Every Thursday, a group of students from the University of Ibadan, the oldest in Nigeria, organizes a film club, transforming a small lecture hall into a vibrant forum where they develop a critical voice, using cinema as a springboard to discus...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1988 • United States
Starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly per...

Directed by David Lynch • 1990 • United States
Starring Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe

David Lynch throws pulp melodrama, THE WIZARD OF OZ, surreal-kinky violence, and Elvis into a cauldron and brews this nightmarish soap opera in which outlaw lovers Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura...

Directed by Bas Devos • 2023 • Belgium
Starring Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong, Cédric Luvuezo

In this luminous, gossamer-delicate portrait of human connection, Stefan (Stefan Gota), a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels, says goodbye to his friends as he prepares to leave the city and retur...

Directed by Gessica Généus • 2017 • France, Haiti
Starring Legrand Bijoux, Gessica Généus

Drawing on her personal experiences, her close ones’ testimonies, and surprising encounters, Haitian filmmaker Gessica Généus questions the “disease of the soul” devouring her native island.

Directed by Hal Hartley • 2010 • United States
Starring Jordana Maurer, Jean-Luc Godard, D. J. Mendel

An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1991 • United States
Starring George Feaster, Hannah Sullivan, Rick Groel

Hal Hartley chronicles a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only frustration and violence.

Directed by Errol Morris • 2018 • United States, United Kingdom

The legendary documentarian Errol Morris (THE THIN BLUE LINE) sits down with one of the most controversial political figures of our time: former Donald Trump campaign strategist and advisor Steve Bannon, the inflammatory ideologue w...

Directed by Alain Kassanda • 2022 • France, Belgium

Determined to understand the colonial legacy from which he comes, French Congolese filmmaker Alain Kassanda convinces his grandparents, Colette and Justin, to sit for a series of interviews. Together, they watch old news footage, remember a vis...

Directed by J. Lee Thompson • 1962 • United States
Starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen

Screen legends Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum face off in this terrifying tale of revenge built around one of the screen’s all-time great villains. Mitchum is mesmerizingly menacing as Max Cad...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1984 • United States
Starring Janine Eriksen, George Feaster, Bob Gosse

Hal Hartley’s thesis film at SUNY Purchase features a number of actors who would continue to appear in his films in the early 1990s. A young man attempting to leave town to find his estranged girlfr...

Directed by Luis Alejandro Yero • 2018 • Cuba

A radio announces that Havana and nearby towns have fallen. Hundreds of young people dance in a bunker while a man whispers biblical verses at a railway station. Life explodes on a night of death.

Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shoichi Masuo • 2006 • Japan
Starring Noriko Hidaka, Rei Sakuma, Kazuki Yao

Distilled to feature length from the acclaimed, six-episode anime series that marked the debut of visionary animator Hideaki Anno (“Neon Genesis Evangelion”), this exhilarating space opera bl...

Directed by Vashti Harrison • 2014 • United States, Trinidad and Tobago

FIELD NOTES is an experimental portrait of the ghosts embedded in the culture of Trinidad and Tobago. Structured as a visual and aural field guide to the spirits, jumbies, shapeshifters, and bloodsuckers that inhabit the isl...

Directed by Luis Mandoki • 2002 • United States, Germany
Starring Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend

When their daughter (Dakota Fanning) is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor (Stuart Townsend) and his wife (Charlize Theron) are held hostage...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1994 • United States
Starring Parker Posey, Sabrina Lloyd

Parker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd star in an experimental short set to the titular song by the Breeders.

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1985 • United States
Starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the...

Directed by Victoria Linares Villegas • 2019 • Dominican Republic

Victoria, an only daughter, tries to decipher her mother’s resentment toward her by parsing old photographs and new footage.

Directed by Hal Hartley • 2004 • United States
Starring Parker Posey, Sabrina Lloyd

This documentary consists of footage shot between actual takes during the production of the short film IRIS, revealing the imagination, diligence, and patience that goes into composing a shot.